In 2008 the fight was on between Van Merksteijn Motorsport and Team Essex, both racing their Porsche RS Spyders. They had quite a nice fight, something that people hoped to see again in 2009. The two Porsches tried to fight each other this year, but it was soon clear who was the best team out in the LMP2 category. Unfortunately LMP2 had a high attrition rate again in 2009.[…]
After being a highlight in recent years the GT1 class was nothing more than a grid filler this year. The last race under the current GT1 regulations only had four Corvette C6.Rs, 1 Aston Martin DBR9 and a Lamborghini Murcielago in it.[…]
One week after the 24 Hours of Le Mans ended it is time for our class analysis of the race. Starting with GT2 we’ll take a look at what went well and what went wrong in each category and per manufacturer.[…]
Planetlemans photographers Gerlach Delissen and Marcel ten Caat came back from France with lots of pictures of the 77th 24 Hours of Le Mans at the Circuit de la Sarthe. […]
Planetlemans photographer Gerlach Delissen happened to be near the Dunlop Bridge during the 13th hour of the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Just as he was there Team LNT’s Ginetta-Zytek GZ09S went off and caught fire.[…]
The Swiss team achieved a superb result by finishing second in the LMP2 class in only their second attempt at the Le Mans 24 Hours race.[…]
It’s shortly after 4am when Pescarolo Sport’s Peugeot 908 HDI FAP is the victim of a serious accident on the run down towards La Chapelle, just before the S-bends of Tertre Rouge. The extremely violent impact leaves the car completely destroyed. Rescue teams are quickly on the scene and begin extracting Benoît from the cockpit[…]
Today saw Team Peugeot Total secure its first victory in the Le Mans 24 Hours with the diesel-powered 908 HDi FAP which contested the French endurance classic for the first time two years ago in 2007. This afternoon’s result also takes the firm’s Le Mans score to three wins following its previous triumphs in 1992 and 1993.[…]
Clinching a podium in your first outing at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the hardest endurance race in the world is not given to many drivers, but Xavier Maassen has managed to do it. In the Corvette C6.R of the French Luc Alphand Aventures team he drove together with Julien Jousse and Yann Clairay into second place in the LM GT1 class, following a trouble free race.[…]
Fifty years on from Aston Martin’s victory in the 1959 Le Mans 24 Hours, the team has exceeded all expectations by finishing an excellent fourth overall in this year’s race, having been quickest of the petrol runners from start to finish.[…]