The Planetlemans FIA GT Monza preview

Almost a month after the opening round on cold and foggy Silverstone circuit the FIA GT championship will be at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza for round two. Last year the weather was good and Jetalliance Racing and AF Corse won their classes. This year at least the weather seems to change, with thunderstorms expected throughout the weekend.[…]

Spa 1000 km LIVE at Planetlemans - Chapter 4

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As we head into the final stage of the race the leading Peugeot has just gone into the box for its sixth pit stop. The gap to the rest of the field is big though, but with the events we have seen in this and the earlier races nothing is […]

Spa 1000 km LIVE at Planetlemans - Chapter 2

One and a half hour into the race and the Peugeot team has a big lead over the Audi team. At the moment Lamy is in the lead ahead of team mate Minassian. Jos Verstappen is in the lead in LMP2, with Guillaume Moreau in the Corvette leading GT1. Gianmaria in his Ferrari 430 GT2 is still leading in GT2. It is now time to return to the action. Like the weather the race is heating up.[…]

LMS Spa 1000 km - Warm-up report

Fourty-two cars took part in the warm-up session ahead of the 1000km of Spa later today. In a rather uneventful session, compared to the sessions earlier this weekend, it was Team Peugeot Total on top of the time sheets again. After their shunts yesterday the WR and the Kruse Schiller Lola did not take part in the session and their pit boxes were closed.[…]

Classic Endurance Racing - Spa-Francorchamps Report

Round three of the Classic Endurance Racing series brought the historic cars to an historic track, the Spa-Francorchamps circuit in Belgium. Like in Monza the sun was out all weekend as thirty-four cars took to the track. As the race started on Saturday afternoon there were thirty-two of them taking the start.[…]

LMS Spa 1000 km - Qualifying report

Team Peugeot Total have taken pole position for tomorrow’s 1000 kilometers of Spa in a crazy qualifying session. The qualifying already started some five minutes later due to incidents earlier in the day and while the GT cars had a trouble free session the LMP was interrupted twice by red flags. As the session ended almost 45 minutes after it was scheduled to end Sarrazin in his Peugeot/Audi had set the fastest lap and secured pole position.[…]

LMS Spa 1000 km - Third practice report

For the first time this weekend the number 7 Peugeot 908 HDi FAP was not the fastest car out on the track here at Spa-Francorchamps. In fact the Gene/Minassian/Villeneuve car only ended the session in fifth place. Quickest in the final free practice session was the other Peugeot of Lamy/Sarrazin/Wurz.[…]

LMS Spa 1000 km - Second practice report

Once more the Peugeot team was unbeatable in a Le Mans Series free practice session. Just like earlier in the afternoon it was the number 7 Peugeot 908 HDi FAP that set the fastest lap time of all the cars that participated. The gaps between the front cars was smaller in this session, half a second splitting the top three.[…]

LMS Spa 1000 km - First practice report

Under a clear blue sky and the sun scorching everyone around the Spa-Francorchamps circuit the third round of the Le Mans Series got underway at 13:00. Fourty-four cars took to the track for their first free practice session on the seven kilometer long track.[…]

A new sound emerges from the Spyker pit box

As the final preparations ahead of the first free practice session of the weekend for the Le Mans Series where underway at Spa-Francorchamps, there was an interesting sound coming from the pit box where both Spyker C8 Laviolette GT2R cars are this weekend. Instead of the usual deep rumble from the engines a complete different sound emerged from the back of one of the cars.[…]