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Planetlemans preview: The FIA GT GT2 season

By Marcel ten Caat ⋅ April 16, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

The opening round of the FIA GT Championship this weekend at Silverstone will see twelve GT2 cars taking the start of the new season. With nine Ferrari 430s against just three Porsche 997 GT3 RSRs the odds are against the German manufacturer, or so it seems. What are the expectations ahead of the first race of the season?[…]

The Planetlemans Long Beach preview

By Gabriel Portos ⋅ April 15, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

With one victory overall a piece, Audi and Porsche prepare for yet another ALMS battle on the streets of Long Beach with Acura certainly aiming at raining on their parade and grabbing a victory for themselves. In the GT classes Corvette will run a solo race in absence of the Bell Aston Martin while GT2 should be a very open battle between Porsche and Ferrari[…]

Planetlemans looks at the Audi vs Peugeot battle

By Marcel ten Caat ⋅ April 11, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Despite Audi beating Peugeot in the American Le Mans Series opener at Sebring most people expected the French squad to bounce back when the two teams would race each other at full strength back in Europe. Last weekend the first head-to-head fight to place at the Circuit de Catalunya near Barcelona in Spain, here is what we think of it.[…]

Planetlemans analyzes the Catalunya 1000km

By Gabriel Portos ⋅ April 8, 2008 ⋅ One comment

The first victory from Peugeot over Audi, a very successful debut of the Porsche RS Spyder in Europe, a good fight in GT1 and a recovery race from Ferrari finishing in a GT2 victory. Could you have asked for more in this opening of the 2008 LMS season? Certainly! Spectators to begin with, and they came. The official figure was 28,000 through the weekend, probably the biggest attendance ever of an LMS race[…]

Planetlemans LMS 1000KM of Catalunya GT preview

By Marcel ten Caat ⋅ March 30, 2008 ⋅ One comment

The Le Mans Series GT battle is heating up, after a winter full of testing Porsche seems to be ready to fight the Ferrari’s that were so dominant in 2007 in GT2 while in the GT1 category the championship winning Saleen has changed owners and will again fight the other GT1s. The 1000 kilometers of Catalunya will reveal where every team stands.[…]

The Planetlemans St. Petersburg 2008 preview

By Gabriel Portos ⋅ March 30, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

In the very first edition of the St. Petersburg race last year Audi managed to grab their only street race victory of the season thanks to a clean, (almost) uneventful race. Will things be similar this year? The circuit is tight (remember the heavy shunt of Tomas Enge that took him out for quite some weeks), the race is short (1 hour 55 minutes, is this endurance?) and the LMP2s are quick even with the adapted new rules(remember Sebring…)[…]

Planetlemans LMS 1000KM of Catalunya LMP preview

By Marcel ten Caat ⋅ March 29, 2008 ⋅ One comment

After two days of testing at Paul Ricard just four weeks ago the Le Mans Series is set for its first race weekend of the 2008 season. Many new cars have joined the series for this year, with the ultimate battle expected in LMP1, between Team Peugeot Total with its Peugeot 908 and Audi Sport Team Joest with the Audi R10.[…]

Belgian GT Championship MVD 2008 preview

By Gerlach Delissen ⋅ March 28, 2008 ⋅ One comment

With less than four weeks to go, the new Belcar season will kick-off at Zolder Circuit on the 12th and 13th April. The teams have been preparing and testing for an entire winter and are eager to get back on track again, for the first race. Planetlemans will give you a short update before the season gets started.[…]

Planetlemans analyzes the Sebring 12 Hours

By Gabriel Portos ⋅ March 16, 2008 ⋅ One comment

An old South American saying has it that “there is no ‘tiento’ that cannot be cut or era that does not reach its end”. A significantly hard ‘tiento’ (a sunlight-hardened horse tendon string) was symbolically cut by Penske and Porsche by ending what seemed an endless string of Audi victories and the Diesel domination in long races since the appearance of the R10TDi from Ingolstadt[…]

Planetlemans previews the Sebring 12 Hours

By Gabriel Portos ⋅ March 9, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

The 56th edition of the Sebring 12 Hours will be the first non-Le Mans all-out confrontation between the two diesel megapowers Audi and Peugeot. The long-awaited confrontation between the two works teams will kick-off the ALMS season and be a sensational appetizer for the rest of the year on both sides of the Atlantic[…]