Posts Tagged ‘Le Mans Series’

Alexandre Pesci Interview

What are your feelings after Toyota has announced their return to Le Mans with a petrol-hybrid LMP1 next year? The prospect of Toyota returning to Le Mans with a car of their own design is exciting for endurance racing. The results that REBELLION Racing have been able to achieve in 2011 through our partnership with [...]

Beechdean-Mansell to Skip Portimao

After the high speed crash that ended the Le Mans dream for the Beechdean Mansell Motorsport team and for Nigel Mansell , the British team has assessed the damage to the car and has announced that they will return to competitive international racing in the Le Mans Series in Hungary on August 21-22 and, most [...]

Team ORECA Peugeot Grabs Le Castellet Pole

The battle of the diesel-powered prototypes continued Saturday at Paul Ricard, with Audi Sport Team Joest’s Allan McNish again topping the time charts in final practice. But it was Nicolas Lapierre aboard Team ORECA Matmut’s Peugeot 908 HDi-FAP who ended the day quickest and on pole for tomorrow’s Le Mans Series season-opener. Lapierre turned a [...]

Smith Joins Rebellion Racing

Rebellion Racing announced Monday that it has signed Guy Smith to co-drive one of its Lola-Rebellion Coupe in this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans. The 2003 Le Mans overall winner and Dyson Racing regular in the American Le Mans Series joins Andrea Belicchi and Jean-Christophe Boullion in the No. 13 entry, part of a [...]

Q & A With Adrian Fernandez

Following the closure of his Fernandez Racing team last October, veteran open-wheel and sportscar racer Adrian Fernandez was left without a ride. But it didn’t take long for the 46-year old Mexican star to land back on his feet and with another championship-winning organization. On Monday, Fernandez was confirmed as Aston Martin Racing’s newest recruit, [...]

Fisichella To Race For Ferrari In Le Mans Series

Giancarlo Fisichella has signed up to contest the Le Mans Series in 2010. The 37-year-old is a veteran of 231 Grands Prix since 1996, but he will be Ferrari’s reserve driver this season. However, the Automobile Club de l’Ouest’s Le Mans Series said on Monday that Fisichella would contest “the whole season” of the endurance [...]

CRS To Run Two Ferraris

  After announcing recently that Andrew Kirkaldy and Tim Mullen would contest the 2010 Le Mans Series in a Ferrari 430, CRS has revealed that they will have company in the shape of a second Ferrari 430 LMS entry. Pierre Ehret and Phil Quaife will join Kirkaldy and Mullen in the CRS garage for the [...]

OAK Racing Returns For 2010

After a 2009 season which brought six podiums in eight races, OAK Racing Team Mazda France will continue to concentrate on the LMP2 category in 2010. The team will run two Pescarolo chassis in the five-round European-based Le Mans Series and hopes to participate with its two prototypes at the Le Mans 24 Hours. After [...]