24 Hours of Le Mans
Epsilon Euskadi: We’ll be back!
To finish in your first attempt at the Le Mans 24 Hours is something close to impossible as motorsport history shows. We were 5 hours short of it…but 2008 is over and we look forward to 2009 already. It was a titanic effort but not an undefined one, the effort had names and faces, those of the more than 40 people the were part of the Epsilon Euskadi etam at the Le Mans 24 Hours[…]
Michelin’s 11th Le Mans victory in a row
The Audi Sport R10 TD1 driven by Kristensen-Capello-McNish crossed the line in first place after a heart-stopping finish to this year’s Le Mans 24-Hour race. It was the German marque’s eighth victory on the Sarthe circuit and the fifth in a row since 2004. Michelin was with Audi every step of the way to this extraordinary result, taking the 17th Le Mans win in the company’s history. This latest win is the11th in a row for Michelin, which has not tasted defeat in the Sarthe since 1998[…]
Zytek’s Le Mans race report
Fifth place in the LMP2 class of this year’s Le Mans 24-hours was the best result for the three Zytek ZG348-engined contenders. Two of them ran as high as third in the early stages. However, the trio suffered a troubled race with only the Barazi-Epsilon Zytek 07S making it to the finish. The Trading Performance 07S, which last year was the class of the LMP2 category eventually finishing second, crashed out early in the event. The Zytek-engined Embassy WF01 had an accident much later in the race, which also brought an end to what had been a promising start[…]
Team Modena Record Third Le Mans Finish
Team Modena brought their Aston Martin DBR9 successfully to the end of the 2008 Le Mans 24-Hours race having overcome major gearbox problems in the night that cost the team a strong finish in the classic race. Two hours in the pits, the car only emerging as dawn broke over the French circuit dented their hopes, but a superb team performance to get the car back on the track was backed up by strong driving from Terry Borcheller, Christian Fittipaldi and Jos Menten to see the car take the chequered flag.[…]
Risi Competizione lead the way for Ferrari at Le Mans
The Houston-based Risi Competizione team proved today that they were more than equal to the challenge of the greatest sports car test in the world for man and machine by winning the GT2 class at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in France.[…]
RML MG Lola flies out of Le Mans 24 Hours
Exactly one hundred years ago the Wright brothers, Wilbur and Orville, made history in Le Mans by demonstrating their amazing flying machine for the first time in Europe. Their flights were relatively brief by today’s standards, but a splendid monument rises high in the centre of the town to celebrate the association between Le Mans and those pioneers of aviation.[…]
Van Merksteijn Motorsport victorious at Le Mans
Twenty years after Jan Lammers’s victory and 37 and 32 years after Gijs van Lennep’s achievements in 1971 and 1976 respectively, the team Van Merksteijn Motorsport by Equipe Verschuur has written a new chapter in Dutch motor racing history by becoming the first-ever Dutch team to score a class victory with a prototype in the Le Mans 24 Hours. […]
Early incident costs Larbre strong finish at Le Mans
The loss of a left rear wheel in the third hour of the Le Mans 24 Hours ultimately cost Larbre Competition the chance of a strong result at the 76th edition of the world’s most famous motor race.[…]
Primat, Treluyer and Tinseau win ‘petrol class’ at Le Mans
Geneva-based racing driver Harold Primat and French team mates Christophe Tinseau and Benoit Treluyer claimed victory in the unofficial ‘petrol’ class at the Le Mans 24 Hours after a faultless run by drivers and team.[…]
Top ten finish for Charouz Racing System
The Aston Martin powered LMP1 car managed to finish the famous 24 Heures du Mans race in the top ten on its first attempt and was also the third petrol-engined car to take the chequered flag. The number ten car was shared by Jan Charouz, Tomas Enge and Stefan Mücke, with all three drivers contributing to a great comeback after an earlier delay. […]
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