A nice Christmas Eve present comes from Jetalliance Racing this year. The Austrian team has confirmed its plans to run a pair of Lotus Evora GT2 in the 2011 Intercontinental Le Mans cup and will become the Lotus factory squad in GT2.[...]
Newly formed racing team, Guess Racing Europe will start the 2011 endurance racing season with a strong package. The Belgian based team will take part in next year’s Le Mans Series and plans, if invited, to compete in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the most important endurance race in the world. The Le Mans Series is made up of five 1000km races, each race lasting for up to six hours[...]
Flying Lizard Motorsports announced today the driver lineup for the 2011 American Le Mans Series season. Joerg Bergmeister (Germany) and Patrick Long (USA) will return in the No. 45 Flying Lizard Porsche 911 GT3 RSR and Seth Neiman (USA) and Darren Law (USA) will team up again in the No. 44.[...]
The HTC Dutch GT4 Championship announced the 2011 calendar. In its third season the HTC Dutch GT4 Championship will have 23 races on eight weekends. The teams will race on Zandvoort, Assen, Spa-Francorchamps and Zolder.[...]
A second team has chosen to use the latest prototype born from ORECA design offices: the Swiss team Race Performance will line up an ORECA 03 in 2011, in the Le Mans Series and at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, pending invitation.[...]
Just as the Team ORECA-Matmut is finalizing its endurance programme for the 2011 season, Hugues de Chaunac knows he can count on two of the quickest drivers in long-distance racing. Nicolas Lapierre, who has been with the Var-based squad since 2008, will continue to drive for it in 2011.[...]
The Automobile Club de l’Ouest announced the 2011 regulations on Monday (December 20th), the same day the entry for the Le Mans 24 Hours, the Intercontinental Le Mans cup and the Le Mans Series opened up. The latest draft of the regulations is based on four key elements; Safety, sustainable development, level playing field and cost capping. Here are the GTE and FLM regulations for 2011.[...]
The Automobile Club de l’Ouest announced the 2011 regulations on Monday (December 20th), the same day the entry for the Le Mans 24 Hours, the Intercontinental Le Mans cup and the Le Mans Series opened up. The latest draft of the regulations is based on four key elements; Safety, Sustainable development, Level playing field and cost capping. [...]
In 2011 the Le MansSeries weekends will have an interesting new addition: the SPEED EuroSeries. At all five rounds the CN sportscars are likely to compete in a 90-minute and a 1-hour race. A sixth race weekend could be held at Le Mans in June. Including practice and qualifying sessions the SPEED EuroSeries will have at least 255 minutes of track time on each Le Mans Series weekend.[...]
Dutch squad DB Motorsport is set to join the FIA GT3 European Championship in 2011. The team from Waddinxveen, The Netherlands will enter a pair of brand new BMW Z4 GT3s in the championship and is also considering entering the cars in other SRO promoted series.[...]