The Le Mans Endurance Organisation has announced the provisional calendar for 2012 today. Five six-hour races have been announced as well as two days of pre-season testing at the Paul Ricard HTTT circuit in March.[...]
Taking into account the results of the 2011 Le Mans 24 Hours as well as the Le Mans Series and American Le Mans Series Championships, seventeen teams have been given automatic invitations to take part in qualifying for the 2012 Le Mans 24 Hours.[...]
New race car manufacturer, McLaren GT, will build and supply Hexis with two examples of the new MP4-12C GT3 to race in next year’s FIA World Championship. This relationship brings together one of the greatest names in motor sport; McLaren Racing – winner of 20 Formula 1 World titles (drivers and teams combined) – and the young French Hexis team; winners of the 2011 FIA GT1 World Championship.[...]
Ex-Formula One driver, Martin Brundle, will join his son Alex at the wheel of the Nissan-powered Greaves Motorsport LMP2 prototype at next year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans (June 16-17).[...]
Greaves Motorsport are pleased to confirm that they will be running two 2012-spec Zytek chassis in next year’s Le Mans 24 Hours. In addition to the French Classic, the team will enter one of the chassis in the FIA World Endurance Championship and the other in the Le Mans Series.[...]
In 2012, the Audi R8 LMS ultra will succeed the successful R8 LMS GT3 sports car with which R8 LMS customers have won 115 races and 12 national and international titles in the space of just three years.[...]
OAK Racing brought the curtain down on their successful 2011 campaign with all three of the team’s OAK-Pescarolo prototypes seeing the chequered flag at the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup season finale, the 6 Hours of Zhuhai.[...]
The REBELLION Racing’s #12 Lola-Toyota, driven by Neel Jani and Nicolas Prost, took the checkered flag of the 6 Hours of Zhuhai in fourth position overall and first of the petrol powered cars. This result meant the team scored the necessary points to secure third place in the 2011 Intercontinental Le Mans Cup LMP1 Teams Championship, behind the Peugeot and Audi factory teams.[...]
Aston Martin Racing rounded off the 2011 motorsport season with third position in the unofficial petrol category at the Six Hours of Zhuhai, having finished sixth overall in the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup finale[...]
CRS Racing finished fourth in class in the final Intercontinental Le Mans Cup race of the season at Zhuhai today, bringing the curtain down on four fantastic years of racing. This result also means the team is placed fourth in the GTE-Am Championship.[...]