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LMS and FIA GT1 announce entries for next rounds
After the Le Mans 24 Hours the FIA GT1 World Championship and the Le Mans Series are about to restart their seasons next weekend (FIA GT at Paul Ricard) and in just under three weeks time (LMS at Portimao). Today both series released their provisional entry lists.
At the Paul Ricard HTTT circuit the FIA GT1 World Championship will again have twenty-three cars racing. Phoenix Racing will only enter one car, its first car still damaged after the fire in Silverstone. Marc Hennerici and Andrea Piccini will be racing the Phoenix car.
As a result Mike Hezemans is again set to share the wheel of the Mad Croc Racing Corvette with Xavier Maassen. At Matech Competition Cyndie Allemann has been replaced by Olivier Panis for the French round of the championship. Stéphane Sarrazin will not race for Hexis Racing AMR, Peugeot Sport calling him back for testing duties, his place has been taken by Thomas Accary.
The only other changes can be found in the Lamborghini’s. At Reiter Engineering Ricardo Zonta and Rafael Daniel return to the #25 car, while Christophe Bouchut is back in the seat of the #37 Munnich Motorsport All-Inkl.com Racing Lamborghini.
Two weeks later the Le Mans Series will return to the Portimao circuit for the 1000 KM do Algarve. Taking place in the summer holidays it is almost as if several teams have also decided it was time to take a break and the current entry list shows 32 entries.
In LMP1 the works teams from Peugeot and Audi have gone and with Beechdean Mansell also skipping this round the category is down to four cars; Signature-Plus, Team Oreca Matmut and Rebellion Racing, with two cars.
Seven LMP2 cars will be going to Portugal. OAK Racing will bring its two Pescarolo’s, while KSM and RML will bring their Lola’s, Quifel-ASM Team and Team Bruichladdich their Ginetta-Zyteks. Le Mans LMP2 winner Strakka Racing is also back in action at Portimao. Racing Box, Pegasus Racing (Norma) and Race Performance (Radical) are not entered.
The LMP2 category will again be joined by the FLM cars, seven FLM09’s are likely to join the action at the Autodromo Internacional do Algarve. Next to the regular Applewood Seven, Hope PoleVision Racing, JMB, Boutsen Energy Racing and DAMS entries the DAMS team will enter a car for Jody Firth and Warren Hughes.
GT1 will have two cars, the Larbre Competition and Atlas eFX Team Full Speed Saleens will go head to ahead on the 4.692 km (2.915 mi) race circuit.
The biggest category will be GT2. Twelve cars are expected in Portugal. Four Porsches, six Ferrari F430 GT2s, a Spyker C8 Laviolette GT2R and an Aston Martin Vantage will be battling on the roller coaster circuit. Unfortunately there will be no BMW’s racing at Portimao, BMW Team Schnitzer has not entered a car for the third round of the Le Mans Series.
See the full entry list here.
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Marcel, for Hexis Racing AMR, its Stephane Sarrazain who will miss the World GT1 races not Fred Makko
Correct that.
On the official entrylist still has Accary and Sarrazin ;-)
But of course it says ‘Driver1′ and ‘Driver2′ may be exchanged until the end of scrutineering
Shame about not seeing the Oreca Oreca, I think the Oreca Peugeot has blown its championship hopes and I think the title for the P1 championship Audi #7 and Rebellion #13 will duke it out.
Should be close, but my money is on the Lola.
Go Rebellion. Audi will only do Silverstone.
The FIA didn’t homologate the saleen for the GT1 championship so Larbre and Atlas are left to play in their sandbox by themselves. But at least they can be confident of their show knowing they’re driving the car that won the biggest race of the year.
It’s not often that well heeled teams are left out of a championship they want to be in.
Audi will on
Since Aston MArtin are unlikely to win any chamionship are significant races this year, I think they might loose the Gulf livery for 2011.
By LMS standards the P1 and P2 grid is small. Rebellion’s Jean-Christophe Bouillon is the fastest guy on the team, but he also has had the most crashes…That must be a dilemma for them.