It’s been something of a day of firsts in the world of endurance racing… Following the landmark victory of Strakka Racing’s HPD in the Le Mans Series, the Drayson Racing Lola-Judd of Cocker/Drayson managed to notch up its maiden ALMS success after a sensational final lap at Road America this afternoon. While the twisty Hungaroring [...]
The provisional leader of the 2010 MICHELIN GREEN X Challenge, the N°24 Pescarolo-Judd, consolidated its position by topping the order in Hungary with just one round of the Le Mans Series remaining. This weekend’s race at the Hungaroring provided further evidence that energy efficiency and high performance can go hand-in-hand thanks to the result [...]
For the first time since the creation of the Le Mans Series in 2004, the fourth round of this year’s competition was won by a LMP2 car. The first race to be held in Hungary saw six LMP2 runners monopolise the top-six places at the flag! The unbroken sequence of 33 races won by [...]
Oreca’s Peugeot 908 has been parked up in its pits for almost half an hour now, as the team tends busily to a transmission problem. Incredibly, with two hours to go, three LMP2 cars top the provisional leaderboard! At 7:44pm, Nicolas pitted the leading Peugeot and Team Oreca’s mechanics immediately set to work on the [...]
The Peugeot 908 HDI FAP of Panis/Sarrazin/Lapierre currently leads ahead of the N°008 Aston Martin and Strakka Racing’s HPD-ARX 01c. Although the Strakka Racing-tended LMP2 HPD-ARX 01c caused a surprise by qualifying on pole position earlier today, there was little it could do against the powerful LMP1 contenders at the start and it emerged from [...]
The Strakka Racing LMP2 HPD-ARX 01c beat all the LMP1 runners to secure a surprise pole position in the hands of Danny Watts. The winner of the LMP2 class in June’s Le Mans 24 Hours went out at the very end of the session to complete three laps and steal first place on the grid [...]
This morning’s qualifying session was dominated by Ferrari F430s. AF Corse claimed pole position with its latest recruit Alvaro Parente and finished with three cars in the top four places. Kirkaldy’s CRS Racing Ferrari was third. The JMW Aston Martin and the Hankook Ferrari both finished ahead of the best-placed Porsche which was the Prospeed [...]
Michelin Competition’s motor racing boss looks back at the first two free practice sessions at the Hungaroring… “The track was still green this morning, since nobody ran yesterday because it was a Hungarian national holiday,” he says. “The drivers complained about a lack of grip to begin with, but the track began to rubber [...]
On Sunday, August 22, from 9:05pm until 10:00pm (CET), there will be up to 73 endurance cars racing on two tracks some 7,650km apart! This Sunday, when the 34 starters get under way at Road America, venue for the seventh round of the 2010 American Le Mans Series, the 39 crews contesting the fourth round [...]
Budapest will be hosting a round of the Le Mans Series for the first time this weekend. Former F1 star Giancarlo Fisichella knows the twisty Hungaroring by heart. “Physically, the Hungaroring is an extremely demanding circuit because of its long corners and repeated heavy braking for the slower turns. It is twisty and narrow and [...]
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