Intersport Racing Long Beach Pre Race Update

Putting adversity behind them, Intersport Racing heads to the 2010 Tequila Patrón American Le Mans Series at Long Beach with one goal in mind; go to the front. Ready for a street fight, the team returns to Long Beach fielding entries in the LMP1 class and the all new LMPC division.[...]

LMS: Pegasus Racing ready for the fray!

The young Pegasus Racing team proves its talent, tenacity and courage! While awaiting the arrival of the new Norma-Judd in its Strasbourg workshops, it entered its Courage-AER in the Le Castellet 8 Hours, the opening round of the 2010 Le Mans Series. The team lived up to its reputation by finishing the race, and its three drivers Julien Schell, Jean-Christophe Metz and Frédéric Da Rocha bagged the points that went with seventh place in the LM P2 category.[...]

Positive start to the LMS season for KSM

For the first time in the history of the Le Mans Series an 8 hour race was scheduled as the season opener. As a consequence the leading teams in sports car racing – among them KSM from Siegburg, Germany – had to cope with a much longer race distance compared to the classic 1000 km LMS rounds.[...]

Oreca 01 driver line-up for Le Mans 24 Hours

After naming Soheil Ayari as the team leader, the AIM Team ORECA has finalised its driver line-up for the 78th Le Mans 24 Hours. In the ORECA 01, which finished fifth in 2009, Soheil will be backed up by Andy Meyrick – present at the official Le Mans Series test days – and Didier André who finished fifth in the Le Castellet 8 Hours with Ayari and Loïc Duval.[...]

Vanina on the road to Le Mans: “Le Castellet” debriefing

© Planetlemans – Marcel ten Caat

Before tackling the 1000km of Spa-Francorchamps and the 24 Hours of Le Mans behind the wheel of the Team Signature-Plus Lola-Aston Martin, Vanina Ickx started her season with the first round of the Le Mans Series at the Paul Ricard HTTT circuit. With her two new teammates, Franck Mailleux and [...]

FIA GT1: New dawn awaits for Nissan

A new dawn awaits for Nissan this weekend with the first round of the all-new 2010 FIA GT1 World Championship at Yas Marina, Abu Dhabi. After a development season with the Gigawave Motorsport team, the Nissan GT-R is ready for the challenge of world-class competition with two independent racing teams.[...]

Design a livery for Aston Martin’s Le Mans 24 racer

Cutting edge tyre company Dunlop is offering amateur and professional artists from across the UK an amazing opportunity: to design the livery for one of the top cars in this year’s world famous Le Mans 24 Hours sportscar race.[...]

BMW Team Schnitzer sixth in LMS season opener

In the first round of the 2010 Le Mans Series, BMW Team Schnitzer finished sixth in the LM GT2 class with the no. 78 BMW M3 GT2. At the “Circuit Paul Ricard” in Le Castellet the BMW works drivers, Jörg Müller and Dirk Werner, completed a total of 225 laps over the course of the eight-hour race. Marc Lieb and Richard Lietz claimed victory at the wheel of a Porsche 997 GT3 RSR.[...]

Lizard and Falken Porsches Look for Long Beach Turnaround

Ever since Formula 5000 race cars proved that the Long Beach Grand Prix street circuit could handle world-class road racing in the fall of 1975, the history of Formula 1 and IndyCar racing in the U.S. has been impacted by this Southern California venue – and now sports car racing is part of the tradition as well.[...]

Robertson Racing back on track for Long Beach

Robertson Racing travels to Long Beach, California, this weekend for round two of the 2010 American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patron hoping to build upon a character-testing weekend at the season-opening 12 Hours of Sebring three weeks ago.[...]