Planetlemans.com | 2011 July

Audi Sport Team WRT wins the Total 24 Hours of Spa

By Marcel ten Caat ⋅ July 31, 2011 ⋅ 6 comments

Audi Sport Team WRT has won the Total 24 Hours of Spa with their Audi R8 LMS and drivers Mattias Ekström, Greg Franchi and Timo Scheider. The team secured what can be described as a truly deserved Audi victory in the Belgian Ardennes.[...]

Trio Of MP4-12C GT3 Race Cars To Star At Spa

By Team Update ⋅ July 26, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

McLaren GT returns to the Spa-Francorchamps circuit this weekend for Total 24 Hours of Spa, following a successful race debut there in the British GT Championship early in July. The second race in the MP4-12C GT3’s development programme will see ten experienced racing drivers pilot three cars in the 12C GT3’s first ever 24 hour race.[...]

ALD Automotive And Vita4One Ready For Spa

By Team Update ⋅ July 26, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

With Maserati the Vitaphone team, with amongst others Michael Bartels and Eric van de Poele, together with ALD Automotive won the 24 Hours of Spa three times in the era of the GT1 cars. Today this world renowned race in the Belgian Ardennes is reserved for a new class, namely the GT3 cars, and once again the ALD Automotive Vita4One is one of the main contenders for victory, even though the team swapped one prestigious Italian make, Maserati, for another, namely Ferrari. [...]

VDS Racing Adventures Total 24 Hours of Spa Preview

By Team Update ⋅ July 26, 2011 ⋅ 5 comments

With no less than sixty cars on the starting grid, the 2011 edition of the Total 24 Hours of Spa can surely be described as the world’s greatest race exclusively reserved for Grand Touring cars, and more specifically those in the GT3 class. An incredible feast of motorsport and endurance racing and one which quite obviously the VDS Racing Adventures team of Raphaël van der Straten could not ignore, and whose Ford Mustang FR500 features on the entry list.[...]

Big in Japan – SUPER GT Returns Home

By LenClarke ⋅ July 25, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

It’s just a little over a week before SUPER GT makes its return to Japanese soil when the world’s fastest tintops visit Sportsland SUGO on July 30-31. With the cars and equipment safely shipped back from Malaysia, the teams are busily preparing for Round 4 of this year’s eight-round championship, and the first of five events that run in quick succession to the end of the season. [...]

Luhr and Graf take win at Mosport Park

By Marcel ten Caat ⋅ July 25, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

Lucas Luhr and Klaus Graf won their second race of the 2011 American Le Mans Series season at Mosport on Sunday. The two German drivers and their Muscle Milk AMR Lola-Aston Martin dominated in Canada in round 4 of the season.[...]

History In The Making – Old Meets New At Spa

By Series Update ⋅ July 22, 2011 ⋅ 5 comments

The historic 24 Hours of Spa is one of the world’s longest running endurance events, tracing its roots back to the first race held in the Ardennes in 1924. This year the Total 24 Hours of Spa is the jewel in the crown event for the world’s newest international GT series, the Blancpain Endurance Series.[...]

Ecurie Ecosse Primed For Sportscar Return At Spa

By Team Update ⋅ July 22, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Legendary Scottish racing team Ecurie Ecosse is all set to make its competitive sportscar return for the first time in two decades next weekend (July 30/31) when its newly Saltire-liveried Aston Martin DBRS9 heads to Belgium for The Total 24 Hours of Spa.[...]

ALMS At Mosport: How To Watch!

By Series Update ⋅ July 22, 2011 ⋅ 6 comments

The American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patrón is north of the border this weekend at Mosport International Raceway. It’s time for Mobil 1 presents the Grand Prix of Mosport, the Series’ 13th consecutive visit to the historic Canadian facility. This year, more fans than ever can catch the action as the world’s hottest sports cars tackle one of North America’s fastest circuits.[...]

LMP1 category dropped from Le Mans Series in 2012

By Marcel ten Caat ⋅ July 22, 2011 ⋅ 29 comments

During the Le Mans Series summer break, it is time, after the official announcement of the creation of an FIA World Endurance Championship in 2012 and two races before the end of the season; Silverstone on 9, 10 and 11 September and Estoril on 23, 24 and 25 September, to talk about the future.[...]

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