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News :-
- Corvette Racing will only do Le Mans if no opposition
in ALMS in 2008 - speedtv -
looking @ FIA-GT & other GT1 options
- McLaren to produce F1 GT successor in 2010, future
GT racer? Car
magazine
- RSV to
return to LMS in 2008 with Ferrari 430 - sportmotores
- Spyker sell F1 team - Squadron to survive? - Autosport
- Primetime to run Viper for the rest of the ALMS
season - could be several Vipers in ALMS next year - bear
- First pic of Lista Maserati ALMS - more
- Jetalliance Racing Aston in latest Spa 1000kms official
list
- Luc Alphand will run a 2nd C6R for Olivers Gavin
& Beretta in LMS 2008
- Corvette may race in LMS in 2008 (presumably just one
of these things will happen)
- Zakspeed plan LMS GT1 programme for 2008 (new manufacturer)
aiming for LM in 2009/10 EI
- This is BIG if it's true - "ACO is certain
to kill off GT1 and embrace GT3" - Murphy
- Aston beat Corvette in Le Mans GT1 - IMSA 997 surprise
victor over Risi-Krohn Ferrari in GT2
- This week's Autosport (print edition) rumour
- Morgan back to Le Mans in 08 or 09 with Sturdza Aeromax
- Future of Spyker Squadron in some doubt - AD.nl
- Corvette Racing could do ALMS GT2 next year - or
LMS - Doug Fehan in Autoweek "...Chevrolet
could only justify competing against itself in the ALMS for one season"
- Aston ALMS return "possible but by no
means planned" - AMR in Autoweek
- Astons will be back in ALMS for Detroit
- Doug Fehan on RLM
- Story around Long Beach that Aston
Martin will be back in ALMS after Le Mans... DSC
- But it looks possible Corvette Racing will
stay in Europe at least for Spa 24 Hr...
- See lots of new LMS liveries in 1st
Monza pics @ EI (JWA,
Perspective, Gordon, Villorba & more)
- Autosport (print edition) reporting
that Alfa 8C GT2 car will not happen
- Petersen / White Lightning withdraw Le Mans
entry -website -
GPC Ferrari F430 in as 2nd Reserve
- James Watt Automotive get late Monza
LMS entry
- Autorlando & Goldentime withdraw
from LMS - projectlemans
- New LMS GTs break cover pics @ Paul Ricard
HTTT - EI
- Works Astons branded for Intercontinental
@ Le Mans - DSC
- James Watt Automotive will run LMS rounds from Nurburgring
+ PLM
- New livery for Felbermayr / Proton porsche
- @ ProjectLeMans
- Matmut unveiling of IMSAPorsche 997 & ORECA
Saleen for LMS & Le
Mans - EI
- "The Green Ferrari" Krohn
/ Risi Ferrari tests - story & pic @ DSC
- Speedy Racing Spyker unveiled @ Geneva
- planetlemans
- ACEMCO Saleens back on eBay
- News prior to Mar 01
This page gathers together the entrants for
the GT classes of ALMS, LMES, JLMC &
Le Mans. If its a published rumour it gets in - then we gradually remove
question marks as details become confirmed! If we've missed anything
or got it wrong please let us know.
"The Mariantic
List" |
2007
Le Mans GTs - Possible Entries |
| Car/Team |
Class |
|
LMS |
ALMS |
SBR |
PLM |
JLMC |
LeMans |
ASTON
MARTIN |
| DBR9 |
GT1 |
|
| Aston
Martin Racing |
2 LM preselections - ALMS from Detroit? (didn't happen) |
|
2 |
|
|
|
2 |
| Labre
Competition |
2 car LMS programme, LM preselection |
2 |
|
|
|
|
2 |
| Scuderia
Italia BMS |
Le Mans pre-selection |
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
| Team
Modena |
LMS programme, LM & Sebring |
1 |
|
1 |
|
|
1 |
| Barwell Motorsport |
LMS programme possible |
|
|
|
|
|
|
CHEVROLET |
| Corvette C6R |
GT1 |
|
| Corvette
Racing |
2 LM preselections, may do late LMS |
2? |
2 |
2 |
2 |
|
2 |
| Luc
Alphand Aventures |
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
1 |
| PSI-Motorsport |
Some LMS, LM |
1? |
|
|
|
|
1 |
| Corvette C5R |
GT1 |
|
| Luc
Alphand Aventures |
Will run both cars in LMS |
1 |
|
|
|
|
1 |
| Corvette
Z06 |
GT2 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| LG Motorsports |
Late season ALMS if at all |
|
2? |
|
2? |
|
|
| Markland Racing |
Full LMS campaign |
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
FERRARI |
| Ferrari 550 Maranello |
GT1 |
|
| Convers
MenX Team |
LM preselection (their only race) |
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
| Goldentime Racing (Weith) |
LMS Programme - withdrawn |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Hitotsuyama
Racing |
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
| Ferrari F430 |
GT2 |
|
| Ice
Pol Racing Team |
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
1R |
| AF Corse |
LM Pre-selection |
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
| GPC Giesse Squadra Corse |
|
2 |
|
|
|
|
1 |
| Petersen
/ White Lightning |
LM entry withdrawn |
|
1 |
1 |
1 |
|
|
| Corsa
Motorsports |
May stop ALMS after Utah |
|
1 |
1 |
1 |
|
|
| Virgo Motorsport |
LMS confirmend, aiming for LM 2008 |
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
| Scuderia
Ecosse |
LM Pre-selection |
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
| Scuderia Villorba
Corse |
Confirmed LMS |
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
| Risi
Competizione |
2 car ALMS programme, 2 LM pre-selections (actually
have 3 cars) |
|
1 |
1 |
1 |
|
1 |
| Krohn
Racing |
Running 2nd Risi car - Maybe all season DSC |
|
1 |
1 |
1 |
|
1 |
| Team
Kawamura |
JLMC |
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
| JMB Racing |
|
1 |
|
1 |
|
|
1R |
LAMBORGHINI |
| Murciélago R-GT |
GT1 |
Story that Audi will run an LMS GT1 team |
| Japanese
Lamborghini Owners Club |
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
1 |
PANOZ |
| Esperante GT-LM |
GT2 |
|
| Robertson
Racing |
Sebring, Detroit & PLM -full series in 2008 |
|
1 |
1 |
1 |
|
|
| Chad Racing |
LMS programme |
1 |
|
|
|
|
1R |
| Team
LNT |
2 LM preselections |
2 |
|
|
|
|
2 |
| Panoz
Team PTG |
Full ALMS programme |
|
2 |
2 |
2 |
|
|
PORSCHE |
| Porsche 996 GT3 RSR |
GT2 |
|
| Felbermayr/Proton |
Could run 3rd car in some LMS |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Farnbacher
Racing |
Could run 2nd car in some LMS |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Team Takamizawa |
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
| Team Kawamura |
JLMC team aiming for 2007 LM (didn't get) have F430 (as well?) |
|
|
|
|
1? |
|
| Autoracing Club Bratislava |
Sebring |
|
|
1 |
|
|
|
| Konrad
Motorsport |
Sebring |
|
|
1 |
|
|
|
| Porsche 997 GT3 RSR |
GT2 |
|
| Konrad
Motorsport |
Too late for Sebring - could switch to
GT1 Saleens - nothing as yet |
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
| James
Watt Automotive |
Full LMS & LM entry applied for (didn't
get either) running Nurb, Spa, Silv, PLM, MM |
1 |
|
|
1 |
|
|
| Perspective Racing |
LMS & LM programme |
1 |
|
|
|
|
1 |
| Farnbacher
Loles / Farnbacher
Racing |
Sebring, full LMS, LM applied for (maybe
PLM as well) |
1 |
|
1 |
1? |
|
|
| Felbermayr/Proton |
1 is "works" car |
2 |
|
|
|
|
1R |
| Rahal
Letterman Racing |
2007 programme confirmed |
|
1 |
1 |
1 |
|
|
| Autorlando
Sport |
LM preselection, LMS withdrawn |
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
| IMSA
Performance |
Have 2 997s - 1 spare but could do LM if invited!
-they were... (BTW IMSA stands for Innovation
Mécanique Service Automobile - nothing whatsoever to do
with the other IMSA) |
1 |
|
|
|
|
1+1R |
| Seikel
Motorsport |
LM preselection, no LMS planned - may be Farnbacher
run |
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
| Flying
Lizard Motorsports |
2 997s for 2007 |
|
2 |
2 |
2 |
|
1 |
| Tafel
Racing |
ALMS campaign, LM applied for - didn't get |
|
2 |
2 |
2 |
|
|
| Team
Trans Sport |
ALMS campaign (could add 2nd car later) |
|
1 |
1 |
1 |
|
|
| ASM
Team |
Silverstone LMS |
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
CET Racing Solaroli Motorsports |
From Lime Rock |
|
1 |
|
1? |
|
|
| ProSpeed |
Didn't get LM or LMS - will do Spa 1000 & PLM - full season
in 2008 |
1 |
|
|
1 |
|
|
SALEEN |
| Saleen S7-R |
GT1 |
Konrad, Nash & RML cars could appear occasionally, ACEMCO cars for sale |
| Racing Box |
ORECA prepared car |
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
| Oreca |
Works supported LMS / LM campaign, 2 @ LM |
1 |
|
|
|
|
2 |
| Konrad
Motorsport |
Could run 2 in ALMS - but hasn't yet |
|
2 |
|
2 |
|
|
SPYKER |
| Spyker C8 |
GT2 |
|
| Spyker
Squadron |
LMS / LM again in 07, with Sebring as well |
1 |
|
1 |
|
|
2 |
| Speedy
Garage |
LMS (really the 2nd works car) |
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
Other Stories |
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News Archive
- Feb 27
- Official Le Mans entry list out -
ACO
- 2 ORECA Saleens
- PWL Ferrari 430
- Flying Lizards 997
- Official Sebring entry list out - ALMS
- 2 Konrad 997s
- 2nd Risi is Krohn Racing lineup
- Alphand Corvette C6R delivered (so certainly no Sebring)- pics EI
- Feb 19
- James Watt Automotive looking to run @ ALMS Long Beach and
Houston rounds instead of Monza & Valencia! - DSC
- Feb 17
- Interesting pics from Spyker test @ Valencia - RaceXpress
- Feb 13
- White Lightning combine with Corsa
Motorsports to run 2nd Ferrari F430 in ALMS - ALMS
- 1 works Spyker this year - but Speedy Garage entry is really
the 2nd works car - DSC
- Feb 12
- Official LMS entries accepted for 1 Chad Panoz, 1 GPC 430,
1 Autorlando 997, 1 Modena DBR9, 1 Spyker but 2 LNT Panoz & 2
Felbermeyer/Proton 997s
- Unexpected LMS Ferrari 550 for Goldentime (first pic of
what I suspect will be many...) run by Weith
- No LMS entry for James Watt Automotive
- JMB Racing Ferrari 430 gets LMS entry
- Konrad won't be going LMS - is ALMS now a real possibility?
- Doran/Kuttner of Ford GT fame are advertising in our GoogleAds
(give them a click!)------>
- Feb 11
- 10 Aston Martins in HTTT group test - plans still not clear
- Crash
- Feb 09
- Team Modena Aston Martin will run with Liz Halliday! - PlanetLeMans
- Johnny Herbert & Olivier Panis testing for Aston Martin @
HTTT ful list @ DSC
- Feb 08
- SRT wil not race their Corvettes in LMS - EI
- Feb 02
- PSI have 2 C6Rs - likely to do some LMS rounds Racingworld.it
- Villorba Corse confirms Ferrari 430 entry - RacingWorld.it
- Customer Spyker for Speedy Garage in LMS - PlanetLeMans
 - The Speedy Garage car will actually be the closed version despit
the rendering above
- Feb 01
- Doran Ford GT story grows - Autosport saying PLM 2007 debut,
5.5L non supercharged version of street motor, and looking
for 2008 Le Mans!
- Jan 30
- Barwell DBR9 LMS programme possible DSC
- Jan 22
- See new PTG Panoz livery @ Sebring test via LMSR
- Jan 21
- Seikel Motorsport will do Le Mans & selected LMS & ALMS
races - GT-Eins
- Almost as good as being there! Watch the cars unloading, feel
the season starting - here are the Lizards - pics from the ever
present LMSR
- Farnbacher's new 997 @ Sebring - LMSR
- Jan 20
- Stories linking BMS with ALMS campaign still around (was
it really just a test? Pirelli wanting to stay in ALMS? Pirelli
Girls back?:-)) LMSR
- Jan 19
- Pappas (Team Trans Port) Porsche 997 is real - LMSR - pics -website
- Another Ford GT dreamer? DSC - website
- Vitaphone will seek LMP1 or GT2 (Ferrari 430) entry - Autosport
- GT
Eins
- Jan 17
- Jan 14
- Still two more 430 possible for ALMS (Ferrari of Ontario
+ another)- The
Bear
- Second Ferrari 430 for PWL? - may be entered for Tracy Krohn!
(Sebring, Le Mans, PLM & Laguna Seca) - The
Bear
- Lots of new readers recently - remember to check out the entry
list below
- Jan 13
- Labre - 2 Astons in LMS - story (DSC)
- Johnny Mowlem "...putting a (GT) deal together now" - interview (Autosport)
- Jan 12
- Note how many of last year's ALMS Aston Martin drivers are
suddenly elsewhere...Lamy, Sarrazin, Enge. Should we read anything
into this?
- Corvette could still go to Europe for 2007 - Oliver
Gavin (Speed)
- Jan 09
- Felbermayr / Proton to enter 3 911s? in LMS - story (1
to be "works" 997? story)
- Jan 06
- Robertson Racing announce 2007 & 2008 ALMS programmes
-story
- Jan 05
- Ice Pol / Gordon racing switch to Ferrari F430 for 2007 LMS
& LM - story
- Jan 04
- Tafel 997s delivered - pic
- Jan 03
- PTG AND Multimatic join up for 2007 Panoz effort -
story
- Dec 31
- Dec 30
- 997s start to arrive in USA, 2 delivered to Flying Lizards
- story
- Dec 29
- Porsche Motorsport hint at more RS Spyders for ALMS - story
- Dec 25
- Wishing everyone a safe and happy holiday season - Trevor & Marian
- Dec 23
- B-Racing team plan LMS or ALMS in 2007, Russian drivers,
NOT Lamborghini story
- Dec 22
- BIG NEWS 4 Le Mans auto-entries for 2006 FIA-GT leaders story
- ORECA Saleen for Racing Box in 2007 - presumably for LMS? - story
- Doran Ford GT project is "real" (for ALMS GT1?) - website watch
the movies & make up you own mind...
- Autorlando order 2 997s, will seek 2nd Le Mans entry - story
- Dec 20
- Dec 17
- James Watt Automotive have 997 on order, have entered LM
- see here, may run
2 cars
- Dec 11
- GT2 Corvette Z06 for Danish team Markland Racing in 2007
LMS- story -more -
drive available
- Forum story
saying PTG to run works Panoz in 2007 ALMS (whither Multimatic?)
- Dec 07
- Konrad Motorsport to debut their Porsche 997 @ Sebring, then
ALMS or LMS? - story
- Interesting story linking
Rickard Rydell with ALMS Aston drive. (So there will be an ALMS
campaign then?)
- Dec 07
- GPC Giesse Squadra Corse continue with LMS for 2007, aiming
for LM -story
- Dec 05
- Pirelli wil not be back in ALMS in 2007 - story (how
does affect Aston's plans?)
- Nov 25
- Red Racing to run Panoz GT-LM in LMS in 2007 - story
- Nov 22
- Nov 21
- Spyker ALMS stories seem to have some basis - story
- Nov 20
- Thierry Perrier confirm 997 LMS & LM programme for 2003
- story
- Nov 14
- PTG saying that they aim to be back in ALMS GT2 in 2007... story
- Murphy suggesting 2 more Ferraris in ALMS GT2 with 2 (US) teams
- blog
- Nov 10
- Scuderia Ecosse ARE thinking of ALMS, but also other series,
see quote
- Nov 07
- We really need to take the stories of Corvette leaving ALMS
for LMS seriously, as threats if not plans
- Nov 05
- Stories here & here linking
IMSA Performance to ORECA Saleen for FFSA & possible LMS.
RS Spyder not out of the question either.
- Team Modena Aston Martins said to be for sale to fund Porsche
RS Spyder LMP2 programme...
- Nov 02
- See new combined calendar for 2007 - here
- Autosport (print edition) reporting 2 (old) ALMS GT2 stories;
new life or slow news?
- Doran building GT2 based on "American car new
to series" (Ford GT suggested or could it be Mosler?)
- Lexus program is being reviewed and could be run by PTG
- Also suggesting GPC Giesse Squadra Corse could run Porsche
997s in 2007...
- Felbermayr/Proton will do LMS with 997 & 996, may do Sebring
as well- story
- Oct 20
- Oct 19
- Rahal Porsche effort is a Porsche 997 -
story...ethanol powered?
- Major Porsche announcement due late today- may involve Rahal
(don't laugh) & bio-ethanol! - check why this website
is down. GT2 or LMP2? (we guess GT2)
- Murphy blog saying
Farnbacher-Loles 997 is possible for Full ALMS in 2007 (we think
just Sebring)
- A real speculation this one, but worth repeating: Scuderia Ecosse
to do ALMS GT2 in 2007 (yes ALMS), AF Corse mentioned
as well...
- Oct 12
- SRT planning to run Corvettes in LMS in 2007 - story -
we say: could this mean 8 Corvettes in LMS next year? 2 each
from Alphand, PIR, SRT & P&M! (or PIR out - SRT in)
- Corvette racing seem quite serious in their threat to do LMS
only in 2007
- Oct 06
- Murphy reporting
ACEMCO saleens sold (but see eBay) and
may appear in ALMS in 2007 (Graham Nash mentioned)
- The Bear also says Dick Barbour is involved in a new ALMS Panoz
operation
- ... and that Michael Petersen is no longer involved with White
Lightning (name still on the car @ Monterey)
- PSI may take their Corvettes to FIA GT in 2007 - story
- Sept 29
- Story is AJR will sit out 2007 ALMS, concentrate on their
DPs and and maybe come back with 997s in 2008...
- Just 4 997s announced, only 2 are new to ALMS. Well short of
numbers rumoured - more to come?
- Flying Lizards announce two 997s for 2007
- Tafel Racing to ALMS with two 997s in 2007
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