| Le Mans Series 2007 |
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Entry List
News:-
- Rumoured surge in GT1 entries changes Interlagos complexion
- here
- Sudden rush of GT2s for Interlagos
- Farnbacher also going - planetlemans
- Felbermayr / Proton are sending all 3 of their Porcshes
- planetlemans
- planetlemans also
showing Barazi Zytek as making the trip
- Quifel ASM not going to Interlagos, RML will be LMP2 champion planetlemans
- Four drivers compete for Peugeot 908 test - planetlemans
- Pescarolo WILL go to Interlagos - EI
- LMS championship positions (thus LM entries) still
undecided after Silverstone - more to make the trip to Interlagos?
Positions here
- LNT to run LMP2 Zytek @ Silverstone - website
- Kruse Pescarolo destroyed in transporter fire - project-lemans - pics
- (not nice) gt-eins
- Saulnier will not be going to Brazil - EI neither
will Rollcenter - EI neither
will Courage EI
- Shinji Nakano "rested" by Creation
for Silverstone (at least?)
- Andretti Green Acura will go to Mil Milhas - adding
Tony Kanaan to the lineup- autoweek
- VDS could take their ALMS Radical to Mil Milhas (if funded)- the-paddock
- Audi will not enter Silverstone or Mil Milhas
- EI 2008
plans will be announced @ Essen in December
- Alphand will not take C5-R
to Brasil, 80% chance of taking C6-R - EI
- More on Embassy plans @ crash -
new car has "hint of Germanic engineering... "
- Print Autosport reporting Arena, Chamberlain-Synergy
& Binnie will not go to Brazil, Pescarolo doubtful
- Darren Turner to Team Modena for Silverstone planetlemans
- Embassy aiming to "win the championship" in 2008
- suprises & shocks expected! - Motorsport News (print)
- Oliver Gavin to drive Luc Alphand Corvette @ Silverstone
the-paddock
- Racing for Holland out for the year, Swiss
Spirit out till further notice - Autosport (print edition)
- No Audi for Silverstone - planetlemans
- ALMS teams invited to Interlagos round - invitation
- Darren Manning joins Embassy for last 3 races -
Crash
- LMS Press Conference:- planetlemans
- Audi R10 for Silverstone
- Audi in LMS next year
- Another RS Spyder in 2008
- The Audi R10 showing is likely to be Silverstone
- DSC reported on 10-10ths
- Audi could do "one race in Europe" after
Le Mans - Autosport print edition
- Catch up with the LMS stats post Valencia @ Sportscar
Analytics - stats
- Creation, Lavaggi & #13 Courage LC70 not on
theValencia official
entry list so 2 of the 3 rejected GT2 cars
get in plus 2nd GPC Ferrari
- Interesting interview with Racing for Holland's
David Hart @ Planetlemans (English)
- Lucchini plan to return to LMP2 from Spa
- racingworld.it (not
with the car in the pic I trust!)
- Vitaly Petrov testing LC75 @ Magny Cours
- Courage -
presumably ahead of drive in Del Bello car...
- First pics of Swiss Spirit Lola Audi @ Mulsanne's
Corner & more @ EI -
yet more @ EI - worth another visit! (Marcel Fässler
completed 70 laps of Silverstone short circuit)
- Sportscar Analytics covering LMS as well
as ALMS - stats
- Peugeot win first time out, Horag, Alphand
& GPC take classes (LMP2 disappoint, Brits hit trouble)
- No Swiss Spirit Lola @ Monza - EI
- Pescarolo 01 first run in full livery - pics
@ EI & ACO
- Lawrence Tomlinson steps down from LNT drive
- replaced by Lucas Lasserre - planetlemans
- Embassy buy Rollcentre Radical - will run 2007
LMS- DSC
- Rollcentre Pescarolo lineup includes Stuart
Hall - but not Martin Short! EI
- Shinji Nakano in Creation for LMS & Le
Mans (team will miss Monza) - EI
- Noel del Bello Courage LC75 testing @
Le Mans - Courage
Live - 4 drivers tested (Vitaly
Petrov, Chris Hyman, Paul Warren & Yojiro Terada)
- James Watt Automotive get late Monza entry
- Red Racing switch to FIA-GT EI
- "Another manufacturer" (prototype)
to join series after Le Mans - Patrick Peter @ EI
- Autorlando & Goldentime withdraw from LMS
- projectlemans
- New LMS cars break cover - first pics @ Paul
Ricard HTTT - EI
- Felbermayr / Proton finalise lineup & take
delivery of their 997s - pic
- Just one Peugeot 908 @ Ricard test - EI (English)
- all drivers present except Villeneuve...
- Team Corvette may do some rounds after Le Mans
- DSC
- Charouz Lola running @ Pembrey - DSC
- ASM to seek entry for Porsche 997 @ Silverstone DSC
- Matmut unveiling of IMSA Porsche 997 & ORECA
Saleen - EI
- Motors TV to broadcast all LMS, all ALMS &
50 hrs of Le Mans! - also supporting Liz Halliday - MotorsTV
- Rollcentre Pescarolo
livery - pic @ DSC
- Tom Chilton "only going to do a couple
of races"
in LMS this year -interview @ Crash
- Speedy Racing Spyker unveiled @ Geneva - planetlemans
- List of HTTT runners @ EI
- T2M Dome to miss HTTT & Monza - GT-Eins
- Gulf to sponsor Barazi in LMS & Le Mans
- feedmesportscars pic
@ DSC -
2 cars @ Le Mans
- Also Karim Ojjeh joins Barazi
- "I believe that we will see R-S
Spyder in the 2008 Le Mans Series" - Hartmut Kristen - ProjectLeMans
- Damax to
run 2 Radical SR9s in some 2007 events - full series in 2008 DSC
- Enge now unlikely for Charouz (adding Scuderia
Eccose Ferrari to PWL one)- DSC (we're
assured by Lola & DSC that the project will still happen)
- Swiss Spirit Lola
Audi may miss Monza - EI
- Interesting pics from Spyker test @
Valencia - RaceXpress
- Stunning Official LMS entry list :-
- 14 LMP1s, 12 LMP2s, 8GT1s, 17 GT2s, all quality,
real, entrants more will be taken where the track allows, 5 slowest
GT2s @ Monza will miss Valencia
- Arena Zytek on official LMS entry list
- EI
- Noel del Bello on the LMS list with a Courage
LC75 LMP2 - EI
- Ferrari 550 for Goldentime (first pic of
what I suspect will be many...) run by Weith
- Entries for 1 Chad Panoz, 1 GPC 430, 1 Autorlando
997, 1 Modena DBR9, 1 Spyker but 2 LNT Panoz & 2 Felbermeyer/Proton
997s
- No entry for James Watt Automotive, no Red
Racing but see here
- JMB Racing Ferrari 430 gets entry
- No Mowlem drive in GPC Ferrari
- Jarek Janis in sole works Spyker
- Robin Liddell
joins works Radical lineup
- Project-lemans reporting
Courage to announce AER engines & Michelin tyres - announcement
Monday
- DSC saying
25 entries will be LMP, 8 GT1 & 17 GT2 (seems several in
GT2 will be disappointed)
- Melchester wil run 2nd works Radical - planning
additional LMP2 car & possible bio-fuelled LMP1 conversion
- Crash
- Horag confirming LMS campaign & driver
lineup - project-lemans
- Seems that at least 10 LMS entries have
been turned down (or will be reserves?) - list out mid-February
- Stories around that entry list has closed @
50 cars and some entries have been refused...
- Audi looking @ importer supported teams for
LMS "in the near future"- GT-Eins
- Kruse Pescarolo will be LMP2 - see livery competition
@ 20832.com
- PSI have 2 C6Rs - likely to do some rounds Racingworld.it
- Villorba Corse confirms Ferrari 430 entry - RacingWorld.it
- Customer Spyker for Speedy Garage - PlanetLeMans
- Lister's Pescarolo tubbed car is "Lister Judd"
- but not ready till Spa 1000Ks...DSC
- No RS Spyders for LMS in 2007 -
Autosport print edition
- Peugeot will be @ LMS HTTT test with 2 908s
- Racingworld reporting
Horag will do Sebring then come back to full LMS programme...
- Barwell DBR9 programme possible DSC
- Rollcentre have not sold their Radical & may
still do LMS & LM with it - DSC
- Swiss Spirit re-appears with Lola B07/10
with AUDI power for Fassler & Deletrez EI
- All-Dutch driver lineup for Racing for Holland
- EI
(English) - planning full LMS series
- 2nd Pescarolo confirmed for LMS - Harold
Primat driving - website (so
no Creation then...)
- Markland confirm full LMS programme with GT2
Corvette - Crash
- Autosport (print edition) reporting BMS
Scuderia Italia will campaign a Porsche RS Spyder in 2008
LMS
- Pilbeam LMP2 for Embassy
Racing - website
- Richard Lietz Porsche works driver in IMSA
Performance car - DSC
- Interesting statistics of numbers of LMS entries
over 3 years @
Project
LeMans
- Saulnier Racing sold - successor will
race LMP2 next year - Endurance-info
(English)
- Czech team, Charouz Racing Systems,
with LMP1 Lola B07/10 Judd - DSC
- Labre - 2 Astons in LMS - story
(DSC)
- Lots of new readers recently - remember
to check out the entry list below
- 2 Peugeot 908s in all 6 rounds - PR
- First pics of Peugeot 908 - here (Endurance-info
of course!)
- Indian Le Mans Project with Courage - website
- Felbermayr / Proton to enter 3 911s? story (1
to be "works" 997? story)
- Peugeot lineup seems to be Minassian, Sarrazain,
Lamy & Gene with Bourdais & Villeneuve for Le Mans,
plus Helary as tester- story
- Interlagos is official 6th round of 2007
series - LMS
site
- Peugeot testing 908 @ HTTT again last week
- some sources say Minassian, Sarrazain & Pedro Lamy drove
- story (others
say it didn't happen - we'll know on the 10th)
- If true does this make the Puegeot driver lineup Minassian, Sarrazain,
Lamy & Werner with Bourdais, Marc Gene
& Guy Smith for Le Mans and Helary as tester?
- Ice Pol / Gordon racing switch to Ferrari
F430 for 2007 LMS
& LM - story (look
for Gulf liveried F430 @ Le Mans)
- Forum speculation of new Zytek team for LMS
& LM
- Porsche Motorsport hint at more RS Spyders
for ALMS but downbeat on LMS, "still looking..."- story
- Autosport confirming Jan 10 debut for Peugeot
908 and drivers (Minassian & Sarrazin definite)
- It looks like November 10 for the 1000 Milhas
@ Interlagos is on for 35+ LMS cars (could make PLM & Monterey
more attractive as well?)
- ORECA Saleen for Racing Box in 2007 - presumably
for LMS? - story
- More details of T2M Dome LMP2 programme - website - pic
- Autorlando order 2 997s - story
- Chad Racing to run Panoz LMGT in LMS story
- Audi sign Lucas Luhr @ Mike Rockenfeller
(DTM & R10) story (not
clear which series or if just long races)
- James Watt Automotive have 997 on order,see here, may run
2 cars
- Stefan Mucke testing Rollcentre Radical SR9
Dec 14 pic -
forum
post
- GT2 Corvette Z06 for Danish team Markland
Racing story -more -
drive available
- Barazi buys new Zytek 07S in LMP2 form for LMS/LM
2007 -story
- Red Racing to run Panoz GT-LM in LMS in
2007 - story
- GS
Motorsport (Belcar) looking to do LMS with 997 or Panoz
in 2007 (& LM in 2008!) - story
- Peugeot will test @ Ricard with 2 cars (& 7 drivers!)
- story
- See new combined calendar for 2007 - here
- Swiss Spirit future in doubt as Courage LC70 put up
for sale. Yours for £282000
(Autosport print version)
- Speculative list of 2007 entrants
| LMP1 |
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Creation
Autosportif |
Creation CA07 Judd |
Jamie Campbell-Walter, Shinji Nakano, Felipe Ortiz |
Alexander
Frei / Courage
Competition |
Courage LC 70 AER |
Alexander Frei, Jonathan
Cochet, Bruno Besson |
Courage
Competition |
Courage LC 70 AER |
Jean-Marc Gounon, Guillaume Moreau |
Pescarolo
Sport |
Pescarolo P01 Judd |
Emmanuel Collard, Jean Christophe Boullion |
Pescarolo
Sport |
Pescarolo P01 Judd |
Harold Primat, Christophe Tinseau |
| Scuderia
Lavaggi |
Lavaggi LS1 Ford PME |
Giovanni Lavaggi |
| Rollcentre
Racing |
Pescarolo P01 Judd |
Stuart Hall, Joao Barbosa |
| Arena International Motorsport |
Zytek 07S |
Stefan Johansson,Tom Chilton, Hayanari Shimoda |
| Peugeot
Sport |
Peugeot 908 |
Marc Gene, Nicolas Miinassian |
| Peugeot
Sport |
Peugeot 908 |
Pedro Lamy, Stéphane Sarrazin |
| Racing
for Holland |
Dome S101.5 |
David Hart, Jeroen Bleekemolen, Jan Lammers |
Chamberlain - Synergy Motorsport |
Lola B06/10 AER |
Bob Berridge, Gareth Evans, Peter Owen |
| Charouz Racing Systems |
Lola B07/10 Judd |
Jan Charouz, Stefan Mücke, Alex
Yoong |
| Swiss Spirit |
Lola B07/10 Audi |
Marcel Fässler, Jean-Denis Deletraz |
| Possible Part Season Entries |
| Lister
Racing Team |
Not till 2008 |
Lister Judd 5.5 |
Jens Moller |
LMP2 |
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| Kruse
Motorsport |
Pescarolo P01 Judd |
Tony Burgess, Jean De Pourtales, Norbert Siegler |
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| Binnie
Motorsport |
Lola B05/40 Zytek |
Bill Binnie, Allen Timpany, Chris Buncombe |
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Pierre
Bruneau |
Pilbeam MP93-01PB - Judd |
Marc Rostan, Pierre Bruneau, Simon
Pullan |
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| Bruichladdich Radical |
Radical SR9 AER |
Tim Greaves, Stuart Mosely, Robin Liddell |
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RML |
MG Lola EX 264 |
Mike Newton, Thomas Erdos |
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Barazi - Epsilon |
Zytek 07S - Zytek V8 3.4 |
Juan Barazi, Michael Vergers, Karim Ojjeh |
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Quifel
- ASM Team |
Lola B05/40 AER |
Miguel Pais do Amaral, Miguel Angel de Castro,
Angel Burgeno |
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| T2M
Motorsport |
No Monza |
Dome S101.5 Mader |
Robin Longechal, Yutaka Yamanishi |
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| Embassy
Racing |
Radical SR9 Judd |
Neil Cunningham, Warren Hughes, Darren
Manning |
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| Saulnier
Racing |
Courage LC75 AER |
Jacques Nicolet, Alain Filhol, Bruce Jouanny |
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| Noel Del Bello |
Courage LC75 AER |
Vitaly Pietrov |
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| Horag
Racing |
Lola B05/40 Judd |
Didier Theys, Eric van de Poele, Fredy Lienhard |
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| Possible Part Season Entries |
| Team LNT |
Zytek 07S |
Tom Kimber-Smith, Danny Watts -Silverstone |
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Barazi - Epsilon |
Zytek 07S - Zytek V8 3.4 |
2nd car entered @ Le Mans |
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| Team Ranieri Randaccio |
Lucchini LMP2 04 |
may run @ Spa
& Silverstone |
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| Zulltec |
Zulltec CZ-01 |
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LM GT1 |
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| Labre
Competition |
Aston Martin DBR9 |
Christophe Bouchut, Garbriele Gardel, Fabrizio Gollin |
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Labre
Competition |
Aston Martin DBR9 |
Steve Zacchia, Gregor Fisken, Grégory Franchi |
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| Team Modena |
Aston Martin DBR9 |
Antonio Garcia, Liz Halliday |
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| Racing Box |
Saleen SR7 |
Marco Cioci, Pier Giuseppe Perazzini, Salvatore Tavano |
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| Oreca |
Saleen SR7 |
Stéphane Ortelli, Soheil Ayari
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| Luc
Alphand Aventures |
Corvette C5-R |
Jean-Luc Blanchemain, Sébastien
Dumez, Vincent Vosse |
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Luc
Alphand Aventures |
Corvette C6-R |
Luc Alphand, Jerome Policand, Patrice Goueslard, Oliver Gavin |
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| Possible
Part Season Entries |
Team
Modena |
Aston Martin DBR9 |
possible 2nd car |
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| Barwell
Motorsport |
Aston Martin DBR9 |
Leo Machitski possible partial programme |
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| PSI-Motorsport |
Corvette C6-R |
Some rounds |
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| PSI-Motorsport |
Corvette C6-R |
Some rounds |
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| Konrad
Motorsport |
MM only |
Saleen SR 7 |
Maybe 2 cars |
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LM GT2 |
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| Chad Peninsular Racing |
Panoz Esperante GTLM |
John Hartshorne, Bo McCormick |
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| Markland Racing |
Chevrolet Corvette Z06 |
Henrik Moller Sorensen, Kurt Thiim |
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| Felbermayr/Proton |
Porsche 911 997 GT3 RSR |
Marc Lieb, Xavier Pompidou |
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| Felbermayr/Proton |
Porsche 911 997 GT3 RSR |
Christian Ried, Horst Felbermayr Jr., Thomas Gruber |
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Ice Pol Racing Team |
Ferrari F430 |
Yves Lambert, Christian Lefort |
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Perspective Racing |
Porsche 911 997 GT3 RSR |
Philippe Hesnault, Nigel Smith, Anthony Beltoise |
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| JMB Racing |
Ferrari F430 |
Stephane Daoudi,
Bo McCormick,
Paolo Basso |
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Farnbacher
Racing |
Porsche 911 997 GT3 RSR |
Erik Nielsen, Pierre Ehret, Dirk Werner |
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Team
LNT |
Panoz Esperante GTLM |
Tom Kimber-Smith, Danny Watts |
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Team
LNT |
Panoz Esperante GTLM |
Lucas Lasserre, Richard Dean |
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| Speedy
Racing |
Spyker C8 Spyder GT-2R |
Andrea Belicchi, Jonny Kane, Andrea Chiesa |
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Spyker
Squadron |
Spyker C8 Spyder GT-2R |
Jarek Janis |
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| IMSA
Performance |
Porsche 911 997 GT3 RSR |
Raymond Narac, Richard Lietz
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GPC Sport Srl |
Ferrari F430 GT |
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| Villorba Corse |
Ferrari F430 GT |
Alex Caffi, Denny Zardo |
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Virgo
Motorsport |
Ferrari F430 GT |
Allan Simonsen, Rob Bell |
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| Possible
Part Season Entries |
| James
Watt Automotive |
Not VLC |
Porsche 911 997 GT3 RSR |
Paul Daniels, Dave Cox |
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GPC Sport Srl |
Ferrari F430 GT |
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| Felbermayr/Proton |
Porsche GT3 996 RSR |
Gerold Ried, Horst Felbermayr sr. |
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| Chad Peninsular Racing |
Panoz Esperante GTLM |
Michael McInerney, Sean McInerney |
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| ASM Team |
Porsche 911 997 GT3 RSR |
Renato Della Noce, Pedro Bastos, Fernando Espirito Santos |
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| ProSpeed |
Spa only |
Porsche 911 997 GT3 RSR |
Rudi Penders, Franz Lamot |
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2007 Le Mans Series pages: |
HTTT / Monza /
Valencia |
| See
Mariantic 2006 Le Mans Series pages: |
Istanbul / Spa /
Nurburgring / Donington /
Jarama |
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