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Spa 1000 km - The pitlane shots
A Planetlemans classic, the pitlane shots come now from the Spa 1000 km weekend. It was a fantastic weekend at the Belgian Ardennes and there was plenty of action on and around the track. We complement our regular race reporting with the pictures that show a different angle and can help enhance the flavor of the weekend for those who were there and the ones that could not attend. All pictures have captions so click on and enjoy[…]
Podium for Team Modena after frustrating Spa race
A frustrating Spa 1000km round of the Le Mans Series saw the Team Modena Aston Modena DBR9 record a podium finish in third place after more than five hours of intense racing, but the race had promised more, the car suffering an electrical problem when leading the class early in the race. The team fought back from the early delay and were for much of the race the quickest LM GT1 car lapping the high-speed Belgian circuit, but the initial deficit was too much for drivers Antonio Garcia and Tomas Enge to catch the flying leaders[…]
Valuable experience for Strakka Racing at Spa
Strakka Racing made a very creditable debut in the highly competitive Le Mans Series at Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium yesterday. The team’s driver pairing of Peter Hardman and Nick Leventis steered their Aston Martin DBR9 to a high of second in class before finally crossing the line to take fourth place in GT1[…]
Planetlemans analyzes the Spa 1000 km
In another very solid performance Peugeot made it three victories out of three LMS rounds in front of 35.000 spectators at a sunny Spa-Francorchamps circuit. It was a clear victory even when Audi had substantial pace progress thanks to a new “bodywork” component which in fact was a small second rear wing affixed to the rear of the car. The improvement showed a very good combination of engineering skills and rule knowledge that helped the Ingolstadt team to close the gap with the French lion just before Le Mans[…]
Minassian, Gené, Villeneuve give Peugeot the victory at Spa
Just like the first two rounds of the 2008 Le Mans Series, the 1,000km de Spa-Francorchamps turned out to be yet another fiercely-disputed, drama-filled race. The result saw Team Peugeot Total claim its third success from three starts without suffering the slightest technical problem. Nicolas Minassian, Marc Gené and Jacques Villeneuve shared the winning N°7 Peugeot 908 HDi FAP, but the team’s other car crashed out shortly after the two-hour mark[…]
Michelin wins at Spa and looks forward to Le Mans
This weekend’s Battle of theArdennes produced a superb win for Michelin and the N°7 Peugeot HDI FAP of Nicolas Minassian/Marc Gené/ Jacques Villeneuve ahead of the N°2 Audi shared by Mike Rockenfeller and Alexandre Prémat. The top-three was rounded off by the N°6 Courage- Oreca which collected its maiden Le Mans Series podium in the hands of Olivier Panis/Nicolas Lapierre who started from the pit-lane[…]
Van Merksteijn Motorsport claims victory at Spa
The team Van Merksteijn Motorsport by Equipe Verschuur and its drivers, Jos Verstappen and Peter van Merksteijn, claimed victory in the LMP2 class in the third season round of the Le Mans Series at Spa-Francorchamps. In front of 35,000 spectators, among them numerous Dutch fans, Verstappen and Van Merksteijn took their Porsche RS Spyder to victory in class with a margin of 10.387 seconds over Jan Lammers and Didier Theys with the Porsche RS Spyder of the Swiss Horag team.[…]
Charouz and Mücke without points at Spa
After two points finishes from a third place at Barcelona and eighth at Monza, Jan Charouz and Stefan Mucke did not enjoy such a good day in the third race of the Le Mans Series at Spa Francorchamps. Despite showing strong pace, they finished 10th in the lead LMP1 class and 29th overall after their new Aston Martin powered prototype suffered electrical problems[…]
Snoras Spyker Squadron Spa report
Many visitors arrived early at the paddock this morning, in time for the autograph session and the pit walk. The weather was not comparable with the ‘normal’ Belgium Ardennes conditions that we have seen in so many races: this time the team’s Michelin intermediates and wet tires were fortunately not of use this weekend as the skies were clear and the temperatures were in the mid-twenties[…]
Audi recaptures LMS lead at Spa
Audi has taken the lead of the manufacturers’ championship of the European Le Mans Series at the 1000-kilometre race at Spa-Francorchamps (Belgium). The two Audi youngsters Alexandre Prémat (26/France) and Mike Rockenfeller (24/Germany) in their Audi R10 TDI finished the third race of the season again in second place, thus going to the “Audi home round” at the Nürburgring on 17 August with the same points score as the Peugeot drivers Marc Gené and Nicolas Minassian[…]
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