23/05/2010 8:10

Victory for Highcroft Racing at Laguna Seca

The HPD-ARX 01c shared by Pagenaud/Franchitti/Brabham was first across the line in the third round of the 2010 American Le Mans Series at Laguna Seca, California. The Highcroft car was joined on the podium by the N°6 Porsche RS Spyder and Christophe Bouchut’s Oreca-FLM. The victory of Simon Pagenaud, Marino Franchitti and David Brabham in [...]

21/05/2010 11:45

21/05/2010 11:43

Le Mans 24 Hours: schedule for administrative checking

Sunday June 6: 14:30 15:00 72 LUC ALPHAND AVENTURES LM GT1 CORVETTE C6.R 14:45 15:15 73 LUC ALPHAND AVENTURES LM GT1 CORVETTE C6.R 15:00 15:30 1 TEAM PEUGEOT TOTAL LM P1 PEUGEOT 908 15:15 15:45 2 TEAM PEUGEOT TOTAL LM P1 PEUGEOT 908 15:30 16:00 3 PEUGEOT SPORT TOTAL LM P1 PEUGEOT 908 15:45 16:15 [...]

20/05/2010 17:12

LeMansLive vous offre les 24 Heures en VIP

Du 20 au 28 mai, LeMansLive.com vous offre la possibilité d’assister aux 24 Heures du Mans en VIP. Les deux premiers gagnants remporteront 1 package pour deux personnes pour assister aux essais du Jeudi en VIP d’une valeur de 2400 € TTC. Le package comprend la visite du paddock et des stands, un dîner dans [...]

20/05/2010 16:34

Aston Martin announces its driver line-ups for Le Mans

Aston Martin Racing has released its driver line-ups for the two factory cars entered for June’s Le Mans 24 Hours. The N°007 car will be shared by Fernandez/Mücke/Primat, while Barazi/Hancock/Turner will be on duty in the N°009 machine. Mr. Bean, however, doesn’t figure in the team’s plans! Having chosen to give the recent LMS round [...]

20/05/2010 12:17

Endurance tyre, facts and figures

1,5 H: The time taken to produce one endurance tyre at Michelin’s factory in Clermont-Ferrand 150: the number of different ingredients that go into the production of a racing tyre, including natural and synthetic rubber, textile fibres, resin, sulphur, waxes, oil 12 kg: the average weight of a rear LMP1 tyre (without rim) 100°C: the [...]

20/05/2010 10:29

Corvette Racing and MICHELIN GREEN X Challenge

Corvette Racing explains the greener aspect Watch this video on YouTube Source: http://www.youtube.com/user/chevrolet Share

19/05/2010 18:43

A 36-strong field for Laguna Seca

The third round of the 2010 American Le Mans Series will visit Laguna Seca, California, which those US teams invited to contest this year’s Le Mans 24 Hours will use as a final shakedown for the French classic. There is a fair amount that is new about this year’s trip to the Laguna Seca’s Mazda [...]

18/05/2010 14:15

Thirty days and sleepless nights…

The European-based teams will have had just 30 days to prepare for the first test session at Le Mans after the flag came down at Spa-Francorchamps. Exactly 35 of the 55 cars entered for the 2010 Le Mans 24 Hours were at Spa for the traditional full-scale dress rehearsal ahead of the French classic. The [...]

16/05/2010 20:05

Victory for BMW at the Nürburgring

Victory in the 2010 Nürburgring 24 Hours ended up going to BMW’s Muller/Farfus/Alzen/Lamy after a dramatic race which brought an end to four years of Porsche domination in the Eifel Mountains. The first two rows of the grid were monopolised by Audi R8 LMSs, yet it was the N°1 Manthey-run Porsche that got away to [...]

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