Le Mans Series, June 2009, Volume 9, No. 6
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The Corvette factory reign in the top class of GT racing came to an end a couple weeks ago at Le Mans. While they will still have customer teams in GT1 and will race in GT2, we thought it was appropriate to remember the mighty C5.R and C6.R as run by the the General Motors factory via Pratt & Miller. The cars raced in the GTS category and the GT1 category, beginning in 1999. In 2000 Pratt & Miller took over the operation of the cars. The rest is history with the team winning
multiple ALMS titles, multiple Le Mans wins and an overall win at the Daytona 24.
We hope you enjoy the gallery!
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GT Racer, Luc Alphand has been injured while competing in the Rand'Auvergne motorcycle rally.
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Strakka Racing is in the process of being sold
Professional racing driver and entrepreneur Peter Hardman has confirmed that he is making plans to hand over the reins of Strakka Racing. Peter is in negotiations to sell Strakka Racing to an undisclosed buyer.
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LM24: The Time Cars Spent in the Pit Lane
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A win in LMP2 will make the GT2 pain slightly easier to bear
ATLANTA - June 13 -- While the Porsche RS Spyder is just a memory in North America, it was certainly alive earlier today at the checkered flag for the 24 Hours of Le Mans as the iconic LMP2 sports prototype captured its second Le Mans class win in two tries thanks to the Danish customer team of Casper Elgaard, Kristian Poulsen, and Porsche factory driver Emmanuel Collard.
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Risi and Ferrari successfully defended their Le Mans title
An extraordinary result for the F430 GT at the 24 Hours of Le Mans: four Berlinette from Maranello on the first four places in the GT2 class at the end of the oldest and most prestigious endurance race in the world. Car number 82 from the Risi Competizione Team, driven by Jaime Melo, Mika Salo and Pierre Kaffer, was the first of the cars from Ferrari crossing the line -- this was the 18th overall position with 328 laps driven.
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Pescarolo
Oak
RML
Zytek
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The Pescarolo Peugeot would not be this healthy for much longer
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 Benoit from the cockpit, although the Frenchman has not lost consciousness. After being taken to the track's medical centre, he would be released two hours later miraculously unharmed, save for his bruised pride.
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Brabham triumphantly strides to the podium
Sunday 14 June 2009, UK; David Brabham proudly took a place in the annals of Le Mans 24 Hours history with his first overall race and LMP1 victory, finally gifting Team Peugeot Total the coveted spoils on home soil and ending an era of Audi domination at Le Mans.
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Teams from both Series' performed well
Corvette Racing, Risi Competizione and Patron Highcroft Racing's David Brabham were the big winners from the American Le Mans Series at the 77th running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Corvette ended its GT1 reign with a sixth class win, Risi repeated in GT2 and took two podium spots, and Brabham scored a long-awaited overall victory in the world's greatest race.
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Peugeot finally made the 908 a winner and broke the dominance of the Germans
One hour before the end of the 77th edition of Les 24 Heures du Mans there was just as much agitation, excitement and uncertainty as at the start of this legendary race that marked the end of Audi’s nine years of dominance.
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Practice and qualifying has been run and won at the 2009 Le Mans 24 Hours. Normally we would have had a more of our Le Mans fix by now, however without the test day, we have had to wait longer. So here is just a sample of what has been going on at Le Mans so far...
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8 Hours
16 Hours
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With the announcement of the new rules for ACO racing and the shenanigans in F1 at the moment, there are rumours that Renault could return to endurance racing.
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Spyker reached the finish line for the first time at Le Mans
5 Hours
19 Hours
24 Hours
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The Essex Porsche took LMP2 honours
LM24: Class Results
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The #9 Peugeot takes a very welcome win for Peugeot
LM24: Final Results
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KSM cruelly won't reach the flag, after retiring inside the last hour
The situation after 24 hours
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With less than 2 hours to go, Goh Porsche crash out of a podium position
The situation after 23 hours
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The situation after 22 hours
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IMSA's chance of a podium was dealt a fatal blow in the 21st hour
The situation after 21 hours
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The situation after 20 Hours
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Audi #1 is still in third and the best of the Audis at this stage
The state of play after 19 hours
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LM24: Standings After 18 Hours
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Peugeot is still going strong
The situation after 18 hours
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The situation after 17 hours
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The #10 Oreca is now out of the race
The state of play after 16 hours
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Flying Lizard Porsche joined the list of retirements in hour 15
The state of play after 15 hours
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The #17 Pescarolo Peugeot was destroyed
The state of play after 14 hours
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The Team Modena car had an accident at the start of the 13th hour
The state of play after 13 Hours
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LM24: Standings After 12 Hours
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The Virgo car is running well
The state of play after 12 hours
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The Kolles Audi #14 will race with only 2 drivers
LM24: After 11 Hours
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Stuart Hall was excluded for his crash earlier in the day with the Radical
The state of play after 10 hours
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The situation after 9 hours
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The race for the second LAA car ended in this hour
The state of play after 8 hours
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A TV grab of the Audi shows the damage incurred
The state of the race after 7 hours
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LM24: Standings After 6 Hours
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The Peugeot team spent more time in the pits in hour 6 then they would have liked
The state of play after 6 hours
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It was a mixed hour for Audi - the #3 having the bad luck
The situation at 5 hours
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The #77 retired in this hour
The state of play after 4 Hours
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The state of the race after 3 hours
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The start could not have told of the hectic first hour!
The start at 3pm sharp under the official Rolex clock confirmed the strength of two Peugeots (Franck Montagny with the #8 car and Petro Lamy with the #7). Behind them, Allan McNish who was in front line along Franck for the start is now third. Five minutes after the start, three Peugeots pulled into the lead as Wurz managed to pass McNish, now in fourth.
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JMW Ferrari are not in the top three but have not had major issues
The notable items from hour 2...
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It is only the first hour and the big names are in trouble
A recap from the first hour...
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LM24: Warm Up Times
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Sarrazin put in a great lap for pole
Stéphane Sarrazin, driving the #8 Peugeot 908 Hdi FAP has qualified for a third consecutive pole position in the Le Mans 24 Hours. The Frenchman, gave a shining performance at the very end of tonight's session, after gaining pole position in 2007 and 2008.
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Oak Racing had a small off with the #35 in qualifying
LM24: Notes After Qualifying
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Team Essex scored pole in P2
Peugeot
Audi
Porsche
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Flying Lizard took pole position in GT2
Corvette
Flying Lizards
Risi
Drayson
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Peugeot will start from pole with their #8 entry
LM24: Combined Qualifying Times
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The #1 Audit was #1 after Qualifying #1
LM24: Qualifying 1 Times
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Dumas will be contending for victory this year at Le Mans
Ingolstadt/Le Mans – Romain Dumas contests the 24 Hours of Le Mans since 2001. On June 13 and 14 the Frenchman experiences a premiere in his ninth race: Dumas tackles the track for the first time in a diesel prototype on the Le Mans début of the Audi R15 TDI. In the interview the 31-year old Frenchman explains to what extent he must relearn the 13.629-kilometer track in the Audi and what is important.
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David Brabham has traded his Acura ARX-02a for a Peugeot 908 HDi at Le Mans.
The listing of storied motorsport names at the 24 Hours of Le Mans this year is a long one. David Brabham and Marino Franchitti are firmly entrenched among the most popular at Le Mans this year, particularly among the legions of British fans who annually attend the event. Brabham, driving a factory Peugeot 908 HDi, and Franchitti, in Drayson Racing's Aston Martin Vantage GT2, are well aware and appreciative of the significance and meaning of Le Mans in racing.
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The ACO is organising a meeting with the entrants to find common ground
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Rain provided a challenging start for all the Zytek teams, including the pictured Strakka Racing team
Peugeot
Aston Martin
Zytek
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Drayson Team Manager, Dale White was happy with the practice session
Corvette
Drayson
Risi
Flying Lizard
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Following the protest lodged by Team Peugeot Total, the Sporting Stewards of the 2009 Le Mans 24 Hours have decided "not to uphold the protest". The team was notified of this decision at 23.33 on Wednesday, June 10.
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LM24: Practice 1 Times
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This team, under a different name, scored an LMP2 podium in 2008
12 months after finishing on the LMP2 podium at the Le Mans 24 Hours, the new look OAK Racing returns to the scene of its most famous result hoping for a similar outcome in 2009.
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At 10.35am today, Wednesday June 10, 2009, and in compliance with Article 29.2 of the specific regulations of the 2009 Le Mans 24 Hours, Team Peugeot Total lodged a protest with the Race Director and the President of the Sporting Stewards of the Le Mans 24 Hours concerning the entrant Audi and the non-compliance of the three Audi prototypes with the ACO’s 2009 technical regulations.
Submitted by stickell on Wed, 2009-06-10 12:05.
Spyker have prepared well for this year's event
Last Friday the SNORAS Spyker Squadron exchanged their base in Holland for the ‘Circuit de la Sarthe’ just South of Le Mans, France, for their participation in the most gruelling races of all; the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The Dutch team has been invited by the Automobile Club de l’Ouest (ACO) to enter one Spyker C8 Laviolette GT2R in the 24 hour race. The car will be driven by Spyker Squadron Le Mans Series-regulars Tom Coronel and Jarek Janis. The pair will be accompanied by 2009 LMP2 winner Jeroen Bleekemolen.
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“What a race! I was there!” are the words that every fan expects to exclaim after Les 24 Heures du Mans 2009.
Les 24 Heures du Mans is a thrilling 24-hour non-stop race that takes place at the 13.629 kilometre Circuit de la Sarthe, a track about twice the length of most F1 circuits that is located about 200 kilometres southwest of Paris. The annual race attracts hundreds of thousands of spectators and this year is likely to be no exception.
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Before winning at the 24 Hours last year, it had been a decade since McNish stood on top of the Le Mans podium with Porsche.
No driver can appreciate the significance and drama of the 24 Hours of Le Mans more than Allan McNish. The ever-popular Scot and Audi Sport star returned to the top step of the famed podium last year after a decade of heartbreaks and near-misses. Only days before he attempts a repeat in tandem with Tom Kristensen and Dindo Capello in the new Audi R15 TDI, McNish talks about the hype preceding this year’s race, going back a decade with Toyota and his lasting images of the 24 Hours.
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Jörg Bergmeister would like to celebrate his second career Le Mans victory on Sunday
Jörg Bergmeister and Seth Neiman are together again at Le Mans this weekend in Flying Lizard Motorsports’ Porsche 911 GT3 RSR. They are teaming with Darren Law in one of the deepest GT2 fields seen at Le Mans, nothing new for a team that won the American Le Mans Series GT2 title last year. Flying Lizard debuted at the 24 Hours in 2005 with a GT2 podium finish. Bergmeister and Neiman would like to get back there this year, preferably on the top step.
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Dominik Farnbacher was a GT2 runner-up at Le Mans in 2006
It has three years since Dominik Farnbacher burst onto the Le Mans scene with one of 2006's strongest performances on one hand but certainly the heartbreak of the year - all the same race. He was consistently the GT2 class' fastest driver in Farnbacher Racing's Porsche 911 GT3 RSR that suffered broken gearshift while leading in the race's final hour. Now a constant figure in the American Le Mans Series with Panoz Team PTG, the young German will pilot a Ferrari F430 GT for Hankook-Team Farnbacher in GT2.
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Pierre Kaffer will make his third career start at Le Mans this weekend
Already this year Pierre Kaffer has helped Risi Competizione recapture the GT2 championship at the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring. Now can he help the Houston-based team do the same at the 24 Hours of Le Mans? Kaffer will rejoin Jaime Melo and Mika Salo in one of the team's two Ferrari F430 GTs in the world's most famous auto race, a year after the German finished third in GT2 as Ferrari swept the podium.
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LE MANS, FRANCE- The 24 Heures du Mans holds a poignant place in the heart and mind of even the most casual observer. It is a special race that transcends cars and drivers to reach mythical status; an event of which dreams are made. The dream will be realised 13-14 June as Drayson Racing makes its debut appearance in the grandfather of all sports car races. In an all-British driver line-up, teaming behind the wheel of the No. 87 Drayson Racing Aston Martin Vantage GT2 will be Paul Drayson (London/Gloucestershire, UK), Jonny Cocker (Guisborough, Yorks, UK) and Marino Franchitti (London/Edinburgh, UK). Dale White (Bozeman, MT, USA) will manage the Official Partner Team of Aston Martin Racing (AMR) to what he hopes will be his third LM GT2 class victory at Le Mans.
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British manufacturer represented by five prototypes at 24-hour race
The Ginetta-Zytek teams entered for this weekend's Le Mans 24-hour race
will be breaking records in more ways than one. As at last month's Spa
1,000km, no fewer than five Zytek prototypes will be on the grid, the
highest number of Repton-built cars ever to start the world's most
famous endurance race. Driving one of the two Ginetta-Zytek GZ09S LMP1s
will be Nigel Moore who, at 17 years 5 months old, will be the youngest
British driver ever to compete here.
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Oreca are confident heading into Le Mans
After several months of hard labour which resulted in the birth of the ORECA-01, Team ORECA-Matmut-AIM is gearing up for this year's objective: Le Mans 24 Hours
Shortly after the 2008 Le Mans 24 Hours; Group ORECA began concentrating their efforts on the 2009 event with one objective: move up to the next level in the "Le Mans Endurance Challenge". In order to compete with the top manufacturers they developed the ORECA-01, the first prototype ever to be entirely developed in Signes!
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Audi hope that the R15 will continue the tradition started with the R8 and R10
Ingolstadt/Le Mans -- Logical lightweight construction, downsizing, efficiency and the best possible aerodynamics -- the same subjects which currently occupy the brains of the automobile industry development departments are also key elements in the 24 Hours of Le Mans held for the 77th time on the weekend of June 13/14.
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24 Hours of Le Mans to Mark the End of GT1 Era for Corvette Racing
LE MANS, France, June 5, 2009 -- Corvette Racing has unfinished business at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The most successful team in American Le Mans Series history has won its class five times in the classic 24-hour French endurance race (2001-02, 2004-06), establishing Corvette as a global performance icon. Now after runner-up finishes in Le Mans in 2007 and 2008, Corvette Racing is focused on winning its sixth Le Mans title at the immense Circuit des 24 Heures on June 13-14.
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Brabham, 2 time GT1 winner is attempting to take the overall win at Le Mans for the first time
David Brabham, two-time Le Mans GT1 winner, is aiming for his third consecutive class victory in the Le Mans 24 Hours, 12-14 June 2009. Brabham makes his return to LMP1 at the 8.4 mile Circuit de la Sarthe for first time since 2003, presenting the opportunity to capture his first win in the category at the wheel of the Peugeot 908 HDi FAP.
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Benoit Treluyer hopes to fulfil a childhood dream at Le Mans
Frenchman Benoit Treluyer spends most of his year in Japan, racing in the Formula Nippon and Super GT series, but is now back on home ground and ready to drive the Pescarolo Sport Peugeot 908 HDi FAP at the Le Mans 24 Hours next week. He tested the car recently at Magny-Cours with his team-mates Jean-Christophe Boullion and Simon Pagenaud and the Normandy-based driver is now making his final preparations ahead of a race which has a very special place in his heart.
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Paris, May 28th 2009 -- On June 13th and 14th 2009, Stephan Gregoire will be back at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in a C6.R LM GT1 corvette with the Luc Alphand Aventures team. He has recently been selected to co-drive LAA car No. 72 with Luc Alphand and Patrice Goueslard at the 77th running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
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The Risi team thrives on pressure
A...American Le Mans Series. Our racing home from home.
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Chris Dyson: “The heritage goes back several decades. The character of the race has evolved but never changed.”
The surroundings will be familiar even if the team is not for Chris Dyson next week at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. For the first time since 2004, Dyson will drive in the world’s greatest auto race, this time with RML in a Mazda-powered Lola coupe - just as he does in the American Le Mans Series’ LMP2 class for his Dyson Racing team. Although he has participated at Le Mans once, Dyson is well aware of the significance and mystique it holds on both competitors and fans.
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Wolf Henzler: "I went last year for the first time and it was amazing. ... I felt like a superstar. There are so many people."
For the second consecutive year, Porsche factory driver Wolf Henzler will compete at the 24 Hours of Le Mans for Team Felbermayr-Proton in a Porsche 911 GT3 RSR. Like many Le Mans rookies, last year’s American Le Mans Series GT2 champion was swept up in the magnitude and scope of the world’s greatest auto race. A fifth-place GT2 finish made his first experience that much more memorable. This year, the Farnbacher Loles Racing regular will drive with Marc Lieb (the pair was second in class at Miller Motorsports Park) and Richard Lietz.
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Feature
By Sam Tickell
Audi has their new R15 for Le Mans, a car that should be hard to beat
Twice round the clock. The fight for victory will be between two manufacturers. Audi vs Peugeot.
One has a record and a reputation to uphold and one as the promise to fulfil – both are desperate and committed to victory.
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Gaydon, 4 June 2009. The 77th Le Mans 24 Hours marks a milestone in the history of Aston Martin as the iconic sports car manufacturer celebrates the 50th anniversary of its first win at Le Mans.
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“We certainly have business to take care of at Le Mans but we all remain dedicated to having a new car that can contend right away." Johnny O'Connell
Just because he has competed in two American Le Mans Series events this year doesn’t mean things aren’t busy for Johnny O’Connell (and for that matter, anyone at Corvette Racing. On the contrary, it has been one of the more productive pre-Le Mans periods the team has undertaken in several years.
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Guillaume Moreau leaves Luc Alphand to race OAK Racing Team Mazda
Guillaume Moreau will share the OAK Racing, Team Mazda France #35 LMP2 Pescarolo-Mazda with Matthieu Lahaye and Karim Ajlani at the Le Mans 24 Hours, in what will be his third participation in the iconic event at La Sarthe.
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Moseley also raced for Barazi Epsilon in 2008
Stuart Moseley, (31, St Ives, Cambs , UK ) is set to drive the legendary Le Mans 24 Hour race in the same Barazi-Epsilon Zytek 07s as last year. This will be the Loughborough born driver’s fourth consecutive Le Mans assault. 2008 saw the team finish fifth in the LMP2 class, equalling Stuart’s previous best result. The team line up includes Juan Barazi, as last year, with French driver Roland Berville completing the line-up.
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Peugeot will be out to beat their arch rivals, Audi at Le Mans
After the disappointment which followed its unsuccessful bid to win the 2008 Le Mans 24 Hours with the 908 HDi FAP, which stood out as endurance racing's best car, Peugeot Sport has not eased up in the slightest. Twelve months on, it returns to the French classic even stronger thanks to the invaluable additional experience it has gained during its build-up to this year's competition. Having been able to focus solely on the race, the team goes into the 2009 event feeling composed and confident. That said, surprises are always possible in such an unforgiving contest as Le Mans, an event with a unique blend of human emotion and technical prowess which all manufacturers dream of winning one day, and the legend of which has been forged by countless dramatic turnarounds.
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Aston Martin will go up against the diesel machines in their effort for victory
Gaydon, 3 June 2009. Aston Martin's debut in the LMP1 class at Le Mans this year coincides with a number of rule changes -- posing another challenge to the British team as it gears up for its campaign at the La Sarthe circuit on the 13-14 June.
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Turner will line up with Anthony Davidson and Jos Verstappen as Aston Martin tries for outright victory
The countdown has begun and the 2009 Le Mans 24 Hours is now just ten days away. Darren Turner returns to the scene of his two class victories as part of Aston Martin's LMP1 squad, competing for the outright win in what is arguably the world's most famous motor race.
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"The driving at Le Mans is not the big thing," says Mika Salo. "It’s that you don’t get much rest in between the driving."
The numbers from Le Mans grow more and more staggering each year. On a circuit that measures 8.3 miles, the average lap speeds for prototypes are in excess of 150 mph. And the winning Audi R10 TDI raced for 381 laps and more than 3,220 miles in a 24-hour span. Yes, it’s the ultimate test of both man and machine.
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