ILMC Round 2 1000km SPA

Look at the 60 car entry list - Dont give me bull saying F1 or GT1 is better - I very much doubt I belive you if you said it was true -

LM P1

007 – ILMC – Aston Martin Racing – Aston Martin AMR-One – Stefan Mücke-Darren Turner-Christian Klien
009 – LMS – Aston Martin Racing – Aston Martin AMR-One – Andy Meyrick-Harold Primat-Adrian Fernandez
1 – ILMC – Audi Sport Team Joest – Audi R18 TDI – Timo Bernhard-Romain Dumas-Mike Rockenfeller
2 – ILMC – Audi Sport Team Joest – Audi R18 TDI – Dindo Capello-Tom Kristensen-Allan McNish
3 – LMS – Audi Sport North America – Audi R18 TDI – Marcel Fässler-Andre Lotterer-Benoit Tréluyer
5 – ILMC – Hope Racing – Oreca-SwissHyTech Hybrid – Steve Zacchia-Nicolas Marroc-TBA
7 – ILMC – Peugeot Sport Total – Peugeot 908 – Alexander Wurz-Marc Gené-Anthony Davidson
8 – ILMC – Peugeot Sport Total – Peugeot 908 – Franck Montagny-Stéphane Sarrazin-Nicolas Minassian
9 – LMS – Peugeot Sport Total – Peugeot 908 – Sébastien Bourdais-Simon Pagenaud-Pedro Lamy
10 – ILMC – Team Oreca Matmut – Peugeot 908 HDi FAP – Nicolas Lapierre-Loïc Duval-TBA
12 – ILMC/LMS – Rebellion Racing – Lola B10/60 Coupé-Toyota – Nicolas Prost-Neel Jani
13 – LMS – Rebellion Racing – Lola B10/60 Coupé-Toyota – Andrea Belicchi-Jean Christophe Boullion
15 – ILMC – OAK Racing – OAK Pescarolo Judd – Matthieu Lahaye-Guillaume Moreau-Pierre Ragues
16 – LMS – Pescarolo Team – Pescarolo Judd – Emmanuel Collard-Christophe Tinseau-Julien Jousse
18 – LMS – Guess Racing Europ – Lola B09/80 Coupé Judd – Philippe Hazebrouck-Wolfgang Kaufmann-TBA
20 – LMS – Quifel-ASM Team – Zytek 09SC – Miguel Amaral-Olivier Pla
23 – LMS – MIK Corse – Zytek 09 Hybrid – Maximo Cortes-Ferdinando Geri-Giacomo Piccini
24 – ILMC – OAK Racing – OAK Pescarolo Judd – Jacques Nicolet-Richard Hein

In LMP2 there will be eleven entries, three from the ILMC and eight from LMS. Signatech Nissan, Level 5 Motorsports and OAK Racing will run in ILMC, while RML, Pecom Racing, Race Performance, Greaves Motorsport, Strakka Racing, RLR msport, Extreme Limite AM Paris, Boutsen Energy Racing and TDS Racing will race for the Le Mans Series points.

26 – ILMC – Signatech Nissan – Oreca 03 Nissan – Franck Mailleux-Lucas Ordonez-Soheil Ayari
33 – ILMC – Level 5 Motorsports – Lola Coupé HPD – Scott Tucker-Christophe Bouchut-Joao Barbosa
35 – ILMC – OAK Racing – OAK Pescarolo Judd – Andrea Barlesi-Frederic Da Rocha-Patrice Lafargue
36 – LMS – RML – HPD ARX-01d – Mike Newton-Tommy Erdos-Ben Collins
39 – LMS – Pecom Racing – Lola B11/40 Judd – Luis Perez Companc-Matias Russo-Pierre Kaffer
40 – LMS – Race Performance – Oreca 03 Judd – Michel Frey-Ralph Meichtry-Thor-Christian Ebbesvik
41 – LMS – Greaves Motorsport – Zytek Z11SN Nissan – Karim Ojjeh-Gary Chalandon-Tom Kimber-Smith
42 – LMS – Strakka Racing – HPD ARX-01d – Nick Leventis-Danny Watts-Jonny Kane
43 – LMS – RLR msport – MG Lola EX265 Judd – Barry Gates-Rob Garofall-Simon Philipps
44 – LMS – Extreme Limite AM Paris – Norma M200P Judd – Fabien Rosier-Jean-Marc Luco-Maurice Basso
45 – LMS – Boutsen Energy Racing – Oreca 03 Nissan – Dominik Kraihamer-Nicolas de Crem
46 – LMS – TDS Racing – Oreca 03 Nissan – Mathias Beche-Pierre Thiriet-Jody Firth

In LM GTE Pro a nice mixed field of 14 GTE cars. Six Ferrari F458 Italia are on the list. Two of them entered by AF Corse, one each for JMW Motorsport and Hankook Team Farnbacher, while Luxury Racing will enter two cars for the first time. BMW Motorsport will race its two BMW M3, with Lotus Jetalliance set to give its two Lotus Evora GT2 their race debut. ProSpeed Competition, IMSA Performance Matmut and Team Felbermayr-Proton will all run a Porsche 997 GT3 RSR and Jota will bring the sole Aston Martin Vantage.

LM GTE Pro

51 – ILMC/LMS – AF Corse – Ferrari F458 Italia – Giancarlo Fisichella-Gianmaria Bruni
55 – ILMC – BMW Motorsport – BMW M3 – Augusto Farfus-Jörg Müller
56 – ILMC – BMW Motorsport – BMW M3 – Andy Priaulx-Uwe Alzen
58 – ILMC – Luxury Racing – Ferrari F458 Italia – François Jakubowski-Anthony Beltoise-TBA
59 – ILMC – Luxury Racing – Ferrari F458 Italia – Stéphane Ortelli-Frédéric Makowiecki-Jean-Denis Deletraz
64 – ILMC – Lotus Jetalliance – Lotus Evora – Oskar Slingerland-Martin Rich-TBA
65 – ILMC – Lotus Jetalliance – Lotus Evora – Jonathan Hirschi-James Rossiter-Johnny Mowlem
66 – LMS – JMW Motorsport – Ferrari F458 Italia – Rob Bell-James Walker
71 – LMS – AF Corse – Ferrari F458 Italia – Jaime Melo-Toni Vilander
75 – LMS – ProSpeed Competition – Porsche 997 GT3 RSR – Marc Goossens-Marco Holzer
76 – LMS – IMSA Performance Matmut – Porsche 997 GT3 RSR – Patrick Pilet-Wolf Henzler
77 – LMS – Team Felbermayr-Proton – Porsche 997 GT3 RSR – Marc Lieb-Richard Lietz
79 – LMS – Jota – Aston Martin Vantage – Sam Hancock-Simon Dolan
89 – LMS – Hankook Team Farnbacher – Ferrari F458 Italia – Dominik Farnbacher-Allan Simonsen

A further eleven cars will take part in the LM GTE Am category. Larbre Competition will bring its Corvette, while Krohn Racing (Ferrari), Gulf AMR Middle East (Aston Martin), AF Corse (Ferrari), CRS Racing (Ferrari) and Proton Competition (Porsche) complete the ILMC field. IMSA Performance Matmut, Kessel Racing, AF Corse, CRS Racing and Team Felbermayr-Proton complete the field with their Le Mans Series entries.

LM GTE Am

50 – ILMC – Larbre Competition – Corvette C6-ZR1 – Patrick Bornhauser-Julien Canal-Gabriel Gardel
57 – ILMC – Krohn Racing – Ferrari F430 – Tracy Krohn-Niclas Jönsson-Michele Rugolo
60 – ILMC – Gulf AMR Middle East – Aston Martin Vantage – Fabien Giroix-Roald Goethe-Michael Wainwright
61 – ILMC/LMS – AF Corse – Ferrari F430 – Piergiuseppe Perazzini-Marco Cioci-Stéphane Lémeret
62 – ILMC – CRS Racing – Ferrari F430 – Pierre Ehret – Shaun Lynn-Roger Wills
63 – ILMC – Proton Competition – Porsche 997 GT3 RSR – Christian Ried-TBA
67 – LMS – IMSA Performance Matmut – Porsche 997 GT3 RSR – Raymond Narac-Nicolas Armindo
70 – LMS – Kessel Racing – Ferrari F430 – Michael Broniszweski-Philipp Peter
72 – LMS – AF Corse – Ferrari F430 – Robert Kauffman-Rui Aguas-TBA
82 – LMS – CRS Racing – Ferrar F430 – Klaas Hummel-Adam Christodoulou-Phil Quaife
88 – LMS – Team Felbermayr-Proton – Porsche 997 GT3 RSR – Horst Felbermayr Sr-Horst Felbermayr Jr-Bryce Miller

In Formula Le Mans the five Le Mans Series teams will once again compete against each other. All five teams that raced at Le Castellet will return, with mostly unchanged line-ups (as of now).

FLM

91 – LMS – Hope Racing – FLM Oreca 09 – Luca Moro-Zhang Shan Qi-TBA
92 – LMS – Neil Garner Motorsport – FLM Oreca 09 – John Hartshorne-Steave Keating-Phil Keen
93 – Genoa Racing – FLM Oreca 09 – Jens Petersen-Elton Julian-Christian Zugel
95 – Pegasus Racing – FLM Oreca 09 – Mirco Schultis-Patrick Simon-TBA
99 – JMB Racing – FLM Oreca 09 – Manuel Rodrigues-Jean-Marc Menahem-TBA

Fantastic! I am very much looking forward to this, the first traditional European race of the year and the first outing of the R18.

Wish we got coverage here in the states.

its looking to be pretty epic, i'd love to be there!

Should be interesting. Sad to see Highcroft aren't going to be there though.

According to the statistics Peugeot are going to win again but I think the field is getting fairer so maybe we will see a petrol car win it (lol)

Matt wrote:Should be interesting. Sad to see Highcroft aren't going to be there though.

Highcroft was never an ILMC entry were they?

Captain Handbag wrote:According to the statistics Peugeot are going to win again but I think the field is getting fairer so maybe we will see a petrol car win it (lol)

From what Duncan Dayton said after the testing following Sebring, the R18 was putting down faster lap times than any of the cars that were in the race. I'm sure the new 908s were sandbagging somewhat, but I seriously doubt that Audi didn't learn from the disastrous R15 launch and that they will have a car that is easily up to speed.

It'd be nice to see Pescarolo destroy both of them though, or if a diesel has to win, I hope its the Oreca. Rub it in the factory teams' faces.

Could be an intresting battle, if it its like las year Audi lownforce test PGT full downforce.

However the R18 and PGT (If you compare Sebring data) (R18 when it had prvt test @ Sebring) Seem to be matching each other, however ACO will peg desiels back before Le Mans, We have Le Mans test day as well soon, heres hopeing to Aston Martin, But I would love to See Rebelion Toyota Pull 1 out of the hat along with Pescarolo

I would Aston to win it but who knows Audi does indeed look strong aswell.
@narboza statistics were from the last 4 years Peug has won it. (I think!)

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/90882

New Lotus covers 1000km of testing with a first pic of the car as well!

looks soooo good

cant wait to see this in June. . . .

Captain Handbag wrote:I would Aston to win it but who knows Audi does indeed look strong aswell.
@narboza statistics were from the last 4 years Peug has won it. (I think!)

Oh, I didn't know that's what you were referring to. Wikipedia agrees with you, they have won the four past years.

http://auto-racing.speedtv.com/article/le-mans-audi-unveils-r18-tdi-livery/

Audi unveils R18 TDI livery

Wow, that looks pretty good. I thought Audi was going to ruin it with another silver, red, and yellow livery, but they didn't.

That. Looks. Sexy.

"Hey, Doctor Ullrich! you missed a spot....harrrr harrrrr harrr"

the r18 looks ugly

FranchittiFan wrote:the r18 looks ugly

What????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

FranchittiFan wrote:the r18 looks ugly

Its not as sleek looking as the 908 (the old one at least, the new one looks kind of like they messed up building the old one and decided to just go with it), but I like that it looks like a mashup of the Aston Lola and the R15.

They could have done a better job with the colour scheme though :-S looks like grand-am livery.

Thought they would have kept the R15+ livery continuity...not the same as, but I thought they were going going with the Red (Audi) vs Blue (Pug) ethos.

Audi has always been known for the Silver but the livery reminds me of the old R8C and R8R that raced in 99.

R8C


R8R

Bump guys specfic thread for ILMC round 2 -

ILMC/ LMS, Spa 1000kms - Friday Morning Notes

First things first – Mike Newton was out of hospital and back in the hotel by 10pm last night, battered and bruised but otherwise unharmed.

That’s all the more remarkable when you have had an opportunity to see photographs of the accident in progress (we have) – The #9 Peugeot was going up the outside of the RML car into Pif Paf, Newton didn’t deviate from his line, the cars made contact, Lamy was turned across the bow of the HPD before spinning out, propelling Newton off to the left, the #36 car launched into the tyre barrier at high speed, hitting the tyres at approximately 45 degrees to the horizontal.

The major damage to the car is on drivers’ left, the tub effectively shaved clean of all attachments, wheels, suspension and bodywork, to a point behind the drivers cockpit.

At this point dsc believe the car to be a write off, the tub though did a magnificent job of protecting the driver, this accident could have had much graver consequences than we are reporting this morning.

The RML team are late arrivals this morning, in itself a major difference from the norm. We are expecting news of a formal withdrawal later today.

By contrast the #9 Peugeot is set to be ready to roll for the final free practice session later this morning, the damage there reportedly restricted to three corners and bodywork, the Peugeot and RML teams swapping bin bags full of bits and pieces yesterday evening.

There was good news too from the Rebellion Racing squad, the team were in the final stages of rebuilding the #13 Lola Toyota which was badly damaged in the earlier red flag incident yesterday afternoon. Reports of suspension or steering failure on the car are believed to be incorrect, the team believing that the accident was caused by the car being under compression and Bouillon having insufficient lock at that point to prevent the car from continuing in a straight line into the barrier.

In other news the #23 MIK Corse Zytek was unable to take the ‘hybrid’ test yesterday evening and will therefore continue for the remainder of the meeting in conventionally powered mode only. It’s been an inglorious start to the ‘hybrid era’ in ACO rules racing thus far!!

Thanks daily sports car for words

http://www.race-rally.be/2011/1000km2011/spalive.aspx?type=live

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Can you watch the race there? The only race I am able to watch in this whole thing is the 24 hours. We have American Le Mans but it's not the same, they don't race on any of the same tracks either.