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.[...]
Yesterday evening the first picture of the new Ferrari 458 GT suddenly popped up on the internet – as you might have seen via our Twitter page. The image, which was apparently made just over a week ago at a snowy Fiorano circuit, shows the experienced German driver Pierre Kaffer putting the new car through its paces on the Italian circuit. Time for us to do a first visual comparison between the old and the new Ferrari. What are your thoughts on the new car?[...]
See all the high-octane action from the season’s races, and check out the cars and teams that are fighting it out for the FIA GT1 World Championship.[...]
The first ILMC, a project dear to the heart of the Automobile Club de l’Ouest, has been launched and has all the makings of a revenge match of this year’s Le Mans 24 Hours. No fewer than six manufacturers will do battle in the biggest events of the different Le Mans Series to try and win the first ILMC Trophy in history.[...]
A provisional entry list on the Le Mans Series website shows 39 entries for the fourth round of the Le Mans Series at the Hungaroring. Five LMP1′s, twelve LMP2′s, seven FLM’s, two GT1′s and thirteen GT2′s can be found on the list, seven more than the last race at the Autodromo do Algarve in Portimao, Portugal.[...]
One week before the Total 24 Hours of Spa our entry list is online. Far from complete as several teams have yet to announce their driver line-ups. We will keep this list updated until the final drivers are known![...]
Just before leaving to Le Mans Allan McNish took the time for an interview with Planetlemans. On the eve of what will be his eleventh Le Mans participation we talked to him about about his career until now, the battle between Audi and Peugeot, his team mates, the R15 “plus” and of course Le Mans 2010. Here’s what Allan had to say![...]