No fewer than 27 cars took part in the 2010 Winter Tests session in Sebring, Florida, where the N°009 Lola-Aston Martin posted the fastest time ahead of Intersport Racing’s Lola-AER. The different categories were all dominated by Michelin partners. The two-day session over the bumps at Sebring was dominated by the 2009 Le Mans Series-winning [...]
Peugeot Sport profited from a press conference at its Parisian headquarters yesterday (Monday) to release details of its 2010 endurance racing programme. The factory-run 908 HDI FAP/Michelin will appear in five events this season. Before going into the calendar, allow us first of all to name Peugeot Sport’s driver line-up for this year’s Le Mans [...]
Giancarlo Fisichella and Jean Alesi are shortly to get behind the wheel of the AF Corse-tended F430 GT they will share for this year’s Le Mans Series and in June’s Le Mans 24 Hours. Endurance racing is attracting a growing number of former Formula 1 stars, and the likes of Nigel Mansell, Allan McNish and [...]
Lemanslive.com’s illustrious pundit and five-time Le Mans winner Emmanuele Pirro has signed to contest three races with Drayson Racing. The amiable Italian is to don his helmet once again for a three-race endurance programme in 2010 which will take in Sebring, Le Mans and Petit Le Mans. This mini-programme is of particular interest to Emmanuele [...]
Two of Michelin’s Le Mans Series partner teams are testing at Portimao (Portugal) and Monteblanco (Spain) this week, while next week will see Giancarlo Fisichella and Jean Alesi get behind the wheel of the Michelin-equipped, AF Corse-run Ferrari F430 in Italy. Although practically all the LMP1 prototype entries for next June’s Le Mans 24 hours [...]
The inaugural GT1 World Championship is due to kick off this April in Abu Dhabi, and the build-up to the new series saw the six carmakers entered for the series gather recently at Portimao, in Portugal, in order to benchmark the potential of the different cars. Michelin profited from the run to carry out wet [...]
The five-round 2010 Le Mans Series has received entries from 44 cars. Michelin will have partners in all four categories. In LMP1, Michelin will continue to work with the 2009 series-winning Aston Martin (Signature Plus), as well as with the Team ORECA-run Peugeot 908 HDI FAP (Lapierre/Panis), the two Kolles R10 TDIs and the two [...]
The ACO today (February 4) released the list of the 55 entrants who have been invited to take part in the 2010 Le Mans 24 Hours. In addition to organising the Michelin Green X Challenge once again, Michelin will be looking to profit from this year’s endurance showpiece to notch up its 13th consecutive win. [...]
The 2010 American Le Mans Series campaign will officially kick off on February 22-23 with the championship’s traditional tyre test at Sebring, although some of Michelin’s partners were already out last week working on the firm’s 2010 range of slicks. The 12th American Le Mans Series promises to be as thrilling as ever, especially in [...]
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