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1000 KM of Silverstone: 47 cars currently on the list

© Planetlemans – Marcel ten Caat

A total of 47 cars are entered for the Autosport 1000 KM of Silverstone, the final race of the season for the Le Mans Series and the first ever race of the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup. A full field sees familiar names returning -including Peugeot and Audi – but nevertheless the entry list is in some way still a bit disappointing.

Twelve LMP1 cars, twelve LMP2 cars, seven FLM cars, two GT1 cars and fourteen GT2 cars are currently on the list for the race that will be held on September 12.

In LMP1 regular teams Rebellion Racing, Beechdean Mansell Motorsport, Team Oreca Matmut and Signature Plus will be joined by seven other prototypes. Aston Martin Racing will bring two of its Lola Aston Martins. Adrian Fernandez, Harold Primat and Andy Meyrick will race in the 007, for Meyrick it is his third different LMP car this season after the Oreca 01 and the Lola-Mazda. Juan Barazi and Sam Hancock will drive the second car, the 009.
Audi Sport Team Joest will bring two of its Audi R15 TDI for Kristensen/McNish and Capello/Bernhard, while Team Peugeot Total will bring one of its 908 HDi FAP cars for Davidson and Minassian.
The two remaining teams are British teams, with ALMS roots. Team LNT will enter a Ginetta-Zytek 09S for Tony Burgess, Chris McMurry and Johnny Mowlem, while Drayson Racing will head over from the US to enter its Lola Judd on what will be Paul Drayson and Jonny Cocker’s home race.

In LMP2 no additional teams will be joining. Like before OAK Racing and Racing Box will enter two cars each, RML, Race Performance, Pegasus Racing, RLR msport (with Simon Phillips replacing Warren Hughes), Quifel-ASM Team, Team Bruichladdich and Strakka Racing will all enter one. According to their own words KSM should also be present with the Lola Judd.

The only change in FLM – where seven cars are entered again – is that Warren Hughes is back together with Jody Firth. DAMS and Hope PoleVision Racing will again enter two cars, while Boutsen Energy Racing, JMB Racing and Applewood Seven will enter one.

Two Saleens are listed to race at Silverstone in the GT1 category. Larbre Competition’s Gardel, Goueslard and Rees are the ones on the list to fight the Atlas eFX Team FS Saleen S7R of Carlo van Dam, Zsolt Baumgartner and James Winslow, but the team’s participation is in doubt after the accident in Hungary.

Finally GT2. Fourteen cars are on the list for Silverstone, one more than we had at the Hungaroring, despite Felbermayr-Proton going back again to being a two-car team with Lieb and Lietz the main contender for the title. No changes at ProSpeed Competition, IMSA Performance Matmut, Hankook Team Farnbacher, Spyker Squadron, JMW Motorsport and at CRS Racing and AF Corse the number of cars remains the same but Kaffer, Bruni and Melo return to the two teams.
BMW Team Schnitzer returns with a single entry, the number 78 BMW M3 for Jörg Müller and Dirk Werner, while Gulf Team First makes its entry into the series with a Lamborghini LP560 for Fabien Giroix and Roald Goethe.

So why is this still a somewhat disappointing list? Okay, 47 cars is not bad, but we’ve had this number before when it was not an Intercontinental Le Mans Cup race. The number of teams joining from the American Le Mans Series or from Asia are low to say the least, only Drayson Racing actually coming over for its home race. While Audi at least brings two of its cars with top line-ups Peugeot will bring one car to join the Oreca entry, while it will have two cars in the US and China. Add to that no additional entries in LMP2, GT1 and GT2 and you know why.

LM P1

007 – Aston Martin Racing – Lola Aston Martin – Adrian Fernandez/Harold Primat/Andy Meyrick
008 – Signature Plus – Lola Aston Martin – Pierre Ragues/Franck Mailleux/Vanina Ickx
009 – Aston Martin Racing – Lola Aston Martin – Juan Barazi/Sam Hancock
1 – Team Peugeot Total – Peugeot 908 HDi FAP – Anthony Davidson/Nicolas Minassian
4 – Team Oreca Matmut – Peugeot 908 HDi FAP – Nicolas Lapierre/Stéphane Sarrazin
5 – Beechdean Mansell Motorsport – Ginetta-Zytek 09S – Nigel Mansell/Leo Mansell/Greg Mansell
7 – Audi Sport Team Joest – Audi R15 TDI – Tom Kristensen/Allan McNish
8 – Audi Sport Team Joest – Audi R15 TDI – Timo Bernhard/Dindo Capello
11 – Drayson Racing – Lola B10/60 Coupé – Judd – Paul Drayson/Jonny Cocker
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
20 – Team LNT – Ginetta-Zytek 09S – Tony Burgess/Johnny Mowlem/Chris McMurry

LM P2

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/Simon Phillips
35 – OAK Racing – Pescarolo – Judd – Richard Hein/Guillaume Moreau
36 – Pegasus Racing – Courage-Oreca LC75 – AER – Julien Schell/Frederic Da Rocha
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

FLM
43 – DAMS – Formula Le Mans – Oreca 09 – Andrea Barlesi/Alessandro Cicognani/Gary Chalandon
44 – DAMS – Formula Le Mans – Oreca 09 – Jody Firth/Warren Hughes
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/Olivier Lombard
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

LM GT1

50 – Larbre Competition – Saleen S7-R – Gabriele Gardel/Patrice Goueslard/Fernando Rees
66 – Atlas FX-Team FS – Saleen S7-R – Carlo Van Dam/Zsolt Baumgartner/James Winslow

LM GT2

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
78 – BMW Team Schnitzer – BMW M3 E92 – Jörg Müller/Dirk Werner
85 – Spyker Squadron – Spyker C8 Laviolette GT2R – Peter Dumbreck/Tom Coronel
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 – Gianmaria Bruni/Jaime Melo
99 – Gulf Team First – Lamborghini LP560 – Fabien Giroix/Roald Goethe