A thrilling 24 Hours of Le Mans is behind us and what an epic race it was. This year’s edition of the race at the Circuit de la Sarthe had everything: fights, crashes, close battles, joy, fear. The spectators, team members and members of the media were presented a real spectacle. And to revive that feeling Brecht Decancq selected a great number of his shots in another stunning gallery.[...]
Round two of the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup and the Le Mans Series took place at the famous Spa-Francorchamps circuit. A great selection of the finest images shot by Planetlemans photographer Brecht Decancq can be found here.[...]
After the opening rounds at Sebring and Le Castellet a stunning 60 cars are on the provisional entry list for the 1000 KM of Spa-Francorchamps. 18 LMP1, 12 LMP2, 14 LM GTE Pro, 11 LM GTE Am and 5 FLM cars are set to race in round two of the Le Mans Series and the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup on Saturday May 7th.[...]
The GT Academy 2011 Time Trial will end at midnight GMT this Sunday (17th April). The competition, that aims to turn a gamer into a real-life racing driver, has seen entrants slugging it out since 4th March on a specially designed circuit on PlayStation®’s Gran Turismo®5 game.[...]
The GT Academy 2011 Time Trial on the Gran Turismo®5 game for PlayStation®3 (PS3™), the virtual-to-real-racer competition that is contested across 10 European countries over a six-week period will close at midnight on Sunday, 17 April.[...]
Aston Martin Racing announces today its plans for the new season including the unveiling of a new ground-up developed LMP1 race car, the AMR-One, as well as confirming the driver line-up and planned race programme.[...]
Team RLR Msport will be testing their LMP2 MG-Lola at Imola on 1st and 2nd March and have a limited number of places available for other Le Mans Series teams (LMP1, LMP2 and LMGT) to share their test.[...]
Team RLR Msport will be testing their LMP2 MG-Lola at Estoril on 18th and 19th February and have a limited number of places available for other Le Mans Series teams (or similar) to share their test.
Atlas eFX-Team FS is set to race in the 2011 Intercontinental Le Mans Cup season, Norbert Walchhofer’s squad is likely to run two cars in the series, one of them in the new GTE category. The weapon of choice: a Panoz Abruzzi “Spirit of Le Mans”.[...]
Audi has shown its new Le Mans racecar at a press conference in Ingolstadt tonight. The new Audi R18, a closed coupe that has been specifically developed for the Le Mans 24 Hours, will be Audi’s answer to the Peugeot 90X that was unveiled in October.[...]