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39 entries for 1000 KM of the Hungaroring?

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A provisional entry list on the Le Mans Series website shows 39 entries for the fourth round of the Le Mans Series at the Hungaroring. Five LMP1’s, twelve LMP2’s, seven FLM’s, two GT1’s and thirteen GT2’s can be found on the list, seven more than the last race at the Autodromo do Algarve in Portimao, Portugal.

The 1000 KM of the Hungaroring will take place on August 22, 2010 and will be a night race starting at 4 p.m. local time, finishing at 10 p.m. at the latest. Last year, also at the end of August, the 4.381 km / 2.722 mi circuit hosted the FIA GT World Championship. The event on the twisty and narrow circuit was described back then as a thrilling race. CRS, AF Corse and ProSpeed all raced there in 2009.

In LMP1 there are currently five cars on the list. All four LM P1 cars that raced in Portugal are set to return and should be joined by the Beechdean Mansell Motorsport Ginetta-Zytek 09S of Nigel and Leo Mansell.

008 – Signature Plus – Lola Aston Martin – Pierre Ragues/Franck Mailleux/Vanina Ickx
4 – Team Oreca Matmut – Peugeot 908 HDi FAP – Olivier Panis/Nicolas Lapierre/Stéphane Sarrazin
5 – Beechdean Mansell Motorsport – Ginetta-Zytek 09S – Nigel Mansell/Leo Mansell
12 – Rebellion Racing – Lola B10/60 Coupé – Rebellion – Nicolas Prost/Neel Jani
13 – Rebellion Racing – Lola B10/60 Coupé – Rebellion - Andrea Belicchi/Jean-Christophe Boullion

In LM P2 the two Racing Box cars are back on the list, with Piergiuseppe Perazzini, Marco Cioci and Luca Pirri lined up for the nr 29 Lola and Fabio Babini, Ferdinando Geri, Federico Leo for the nr 30. New in the series is the RLR msport MG Lola for Barry Gates, Rob Garofall and experienced Warren Hughes. Race Performance will also return to the Le Mans Series at Hungaroring, with Chris Buncombe racing the Radical SR9. KSM is also back on the entry list after being a late no-show for the Portuguese round.

24 – OAK Racing – Pescarolo – Judd – Mathieu Lahaye/Jacques Nicolet
25 – RML – Lola HPD Coupé – Tommy Erdos/Mike Newton/Ben Collins
27 – Race Performance – Radical SR9 – Judd – Michel Frey/Chris Buncombe
29 – Racing Box – Lola B09 Coupé – Judd – Piergiuseppe Perazzini/Marco Cioci/Luca Pirri
30 – Racing Box – Lola B09 Coupé – Judd – Fabio Babini/Ferdinando Geri/Federico Leo
31 – RLR msport – MG Lola EX265 – AER – Barry Gates/Rob Garofall/Warren Hughes
35 – OAK Racing – Pescarolo – Judd – Richard Hein/Guillaume Moreau
36 – Pegasus Racing – Courage-Oreca LC75 – AER – TBA
39 – KSM – Lola B08/47 – Judd – Jean De Pourtales/Hideki Noda/Jonathan Kennard
40 – Quifel – ASM Team – Ginetta-Zytek 09S - Miguel Amaral/Olivier Pla
41 – Team Bruichladdich – Ginetta-Zytek 09S – Karim Ojjeh/Tim Greaves/Thor-Christian Ebbesvik
42 – Strakka Racing – HPD ARX – 01 – Nick Leventis/Danny Watts/Jonny Kane
43 – DAMS – Formula Le Mans – Oreca 09 – Andrea Barlesi/Alessandro Cicognani/Gary Chalandon
44 – DAMS – Formula Le Mans – Oreca 09 – Jody Firth/Darren Manning
45 – Boutsen Energy Racing – Formula le Mans – Oreca 09 – Dominik Kraihamer/Nicolas De Crem/Bernard Delhez
46 – JMB Racing – Formula Le Mans – Oreca 09 – Peter Kutemann/Maurice Basso/John Hartshorne
47 – Hope Polevision Racing – Formula Le Mans – Luca Moro/Steve Zacchia
48 – Hope Polevision Racing – Formula Le Mans – Christophe Pillon/Vincent Capillaire/Nico Verdonck
49 – Applewood Seven – Formula Le Mans – Oreca 09 – Damien Toulemonde/Mathias Beche

The LM GT1 has two Saleens again. Larbre Competition has an unchanged line-up, while Carlo van Dam will be joined by Petr Valek in the Atlas FX-Team FS car.

50 – Larbre Competition – Saleen S7-R – Gabriele Gardel/Patrice Goueslard/Fernando Rees
66 – Atlas FX-Team FS – Saleen S7-R – Petr Valek/Carlo Van Dam

Finally LM GT2. Thirteen cars are currently on the provisional entry list with the biggest surprise at the Porsche teams. Team Felbermayr-Proton will enter the 77 car for Lieb and Lietz, the 88 car for Martin Ragginger, Christian Ried and 2010 Le Mans and Spa 24 Hours winner Romain Dumas. It will however also enter a third car, running as number 86, for Horst Felbermayr Sr and Jr and Marco Seefried.

It is interesting to note that there are currently three AF Corse cars on the list…and they include Gianmaria Bruni and Jaime Melo, who were previously said to miss the Hungarian round due to the American Le Mans Series race at Road America on the same weekend.

75 – Prospeed Competition – Porsche 997 GT3 RSR – Marco Holzer/Richard Westbrook
76 – IMSA Performance Matmut – Porsche 997 GT3 RSR – Raymond Narac/Patrick Pilet
77 – Team Felbermayr Proton – Porsche 997 GT3 RSR – Marc Lieb/Richard Lietz
85 – Spyker Squadron – Spyker C8 Laviolette GT2R – Peter Dumbreck/Tom Coronel
86 – Team Felbermayr Proton – Porsche 997 GT3 RSR – Horst Felbermayr Sr/Horst Felbermayr Jr /Marco Seefried
88 – Team Felbermayr Proton – Porsche 997 GT3 RSR – Martin Ragginger/Christian Ried/Romain Dumas
89 – Hankook Team Farnbacher – Ferrari F430 GT – Dominik Farnbacher/Allan Simonsen
90 – CRS Racing – Ferrari F430 GT – Pierre Ehret/Phil Quaife/Pierre Kaffer
91 – CRS Racing – Ferrari F430 GT – Andrew Kirkaldy/Tim Mullen
92 – JMW Motorsport – Aston Martin V8 Vantage – Robert Bell/Darren Turner
94 – AF Corse – Ferrari F430 GT – Luis Perez Companc/Matias Russo
95 – AF Corse – Ferrari F430 GT – Giancarlo Fisichella/Toni Vilander/Jean Alesi
96 – AF Corse – Ferrari F430 GT – TBA

Even though there is still over two weeks before the first session and a lot of things can change it is interesting to see the number of cars going back up towards the forty.

*UPDATE*
AF Corse has confirmed they will race with three cars even though Gianmaria Bruni and Jaime Melo will be racing in the USA. They have not chosen yet who will race at their place.