Major team and driver announcements from the ALMS, Le Mans Series and a few rumours for you too!

• ACS Express Racing has purchased the ex-Black Swan Ford GT, SpeedTV.com has reveled. ACS Express Racing has run in the SCCA World Challenge over the past few years with success and proven to be a very professional outfit. It is unknown whether they will upgrade the car to the spec that Robertson run or leave the bespoke aero that Black Swan developed. Drivers are also unkown at this stage


• CRS Scuderia has confirmed that is will run one car in the Le Mans Series. The Team will run a Ferrari 430 (as pictured above) and will try to add a GT Open campaign.

  “We’re going to continue with our GT2 programme, sticking with Ferrari of course,” said Niarchos. “We have entered a car into the Le Mans Series for Andrew (Kirkaldy) and Tim (Mullen) to drive. We are also close to entering a second car in that series. In addition to this I am going to race in the International GT Open series with Tim while Klaas Hummel and Chris Goodwin will run in another GT2 Ferrari.”

• Olivier Panis has been confirmed to drive alongside Nicolas Lapierre in the Oreca run Peugeot 908. The French driver who famously won the Monte Carlo GP in 1996 confirmed to Endurance-Info that he extended his career to drive the 908
• A few quick rumours (from the forums, some via DailySportsCar)
  - Ferrari could enter a LMP1 from 2011 (this one just doesn't go away)
  - Lotus are looking to enter a LMP1 car from 2011 too. This is the real Lotus, not the fake F1 Lotus and confirmed they would only consider LMP1)
  - Team Falken Tire, having taken delivery of their 2010 Porsche have not ruled out the posibility of running a second car

Sam Tickell