2010 Le Mans entry list unveiled

Looks like it will be another cracker, very strong LMP1 and GT2 fields, lovely, also nice to see Dome back again

LMP1

Autocon Motorsports (Lola-AER) - Mike Lewis
SORA Racing (Pescarolo-Judd) - Christophe Tinseau
Pescarolo Sport (Pescarolo-Judd) - Ho-Pin Tung/Jan Charouz
Team Kolles (Audi R10) - Christian Bakkerud
Team Kolles (Audi R10) - Christijan Albers
Rebellion Racing (Lola B10/60-Rebellion) - Nicolas Prost
Rebellion Racing (Lola B10/60-Rebellion) - Andrea Belicchi
Drayson Racing (Lola B10/60-Judd) - Paul Drayson
Dome Racing (Dome S102-Judd) - Sébastien Philippe
Signature-Plus (Lola-Aston Martin) - Pierre Ragues
Beechdean-Mansell Motorsport (Ginetta-Zytek 09S) - Nigel Mansell
Team ORECA-Matmut (Peugeot 908 HDi FAP) - Olivier Panis
AIM-Team ORECA (ORECA 01-AIM) - Soheil Ayari
Aston Martin Racing (Lola-Aston Martin) - Harold Primat
Aston Martin Racing (Lola-Aston Martin) - Darren Turner
Audi Sport Team Joest (Audi R15 TDI) - Tom Kristensen
Audi Sport Team Joest (Audi R15 TDI) - André Lotterer
Audi Sport Team North America (Audi R15 TDI) - Mike Rockenfeller
Peugeot Sport Total (Peugeot 908 HDi FAP) - Alexander Wurz
Team Peugeot Total (Peugeot 908 HDi FAP) - Nicolas Minassian
Peugeot Sport Total (Peugeot 908 HDi FAP) - Sébastien Bourdais

LMP2

Strakka Racing (HPD ARX-01) - Nick Leventis
Team Bruichladdich (Ginetta-Zytek 09S) - Karim Ojjeh
Quifel-ASM Team (Ginetta-Zytek 09S) - Miguel Amaral
WR/Salini (WR-Zytek) - Philippe Salini
Racing Box (Lola B09/80-Judd) - Luca Pirri
Highcroft (HPD ARX-01) - David Brabham
RML (Lola Coupé-HPD) - Mike Newton
OAK Racing (Pescarolo-Judd) - Richard Hein
OAK Racing (Pescarolo-Judd) - Jacques Nicolet

LMGT1


Young Driver AMR (Aston Martin DBR9) - Christopher Nygaard
Luc Alphand Aventures (Corvette C6.R) - Luc Alphand
Luc Alphand Aventures (Corvette C6.R) - Stephan Grégoire
Peka Racing (Corvette C6.R) - Anthony Kumpen
Marc VDS Racing (Ford GT) - Eric De Doncker
Matech Competition (Ford GT) - Natasha Gachnang (They wanted to make this an all female line up.)
JLOC (Lamborghini Murcielago) - Yogo Atsushi (Will they make the first lap???)
Larbre Compétition (Saleen S7-R) - Roland Berville

LM GT2

BMS Scuderia Italia (Porsche 997 GT3-RSR) - Matteo Malucelli
Felbermayr-Proton (Porsche 997 GT3-RSR) - Horst Felbermayr
Flying Lizard (Porsche 997 GT3-RSR) - Seth Neiman
IMSA Performance (Porsche 997 GT3-RSR) - Raymond Narac
ProSpeed (Porsche 997-GT3-RSR) - Paul van Splunteren
AF Corse (Ferrari 430GT) - Luiz Perez-Compac
Hankook Team Farnbacher (Ferrari F430GT) - Dominik Farnbacher
Modena Group (Ferrari F430GT) - Roman Rusinov
Risi Competizione (Ferrari F430GT) -Jaime Melo
Risi Competizione (Ferrari F430GT) - Tracy Krohn
BMW Motorsport (BMW M3) - Andy Priaulx
BMW Motorsport (BMW M3) - Jörg Müller
Corvette Racing (Corvette ZR1) - Jan Magnussen
Corvette Racing (Corvette ZR1) - Oliver Gavin
JMW Motorsport (Aston Martin Vantage GT2) - Rob Bell
RSR Jaguar (Jaguar XKR) - Paul Gentilozzi/Marc Goossens
Spyker Squadron (Spyker C8 Laviolette) - Tom Coronel




RESERVES Protos
1. Pegasus Racing (Norma-Judd) - Julien Schell
2. Tokaï University (Courage LC70-YGK)
3. KSM (Lola-Judd) - Jean de Pourtales
4. IRS (Lola-Judd) - José Ibanez
5. Kaneko Racing (Courage LC70-Judd)

RESERVES GT
1. Felbermayr-Proton (Porsche 997 GT3-RSR) - Marc Lieb
2. Honk Kong Racing (Aston Martin vantage GT2)
3. AF Corse (Ferrari F430GT) - Giancarlo Fisichella
4. Matech Compétition (Ford GT) - Tomas Mutsch
5. Spyker Squadron (Spyker C8 Laviolette)





Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/04/2010 02:20PM by Iceman-Kimi.

Early line-up should change as we get closer. This is just the invitation list isnt it ?

Nice to see Dome back though! Supprise to see Aston too, I thought they pulled out for '10 in favour of '11? Hope to see an epic battle between Dome and Aston then :p!

off-topic - I only recently learnt that one of the windtunnels Honda used to develop the BGP001 was in fact Domes !

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"Trulli was slowing down like he wanted to have a picnic" LOL

JLOC (Lamborghini Murcielago) - Yogo Atsushi (Will they make the first lap???)

I'm always amazed they make the weekend without a reserve car taking the spot. Fitting the diff backwards, fitting road car parts after they run out of racing car parts. All in a days work for the JLOC team. But it could be worse. They could be T2M.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/05/2010 02:00PM by DaveEllis.

chet Schreef:
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> Early line-up should change as we get closer. This
> is just the invitation list isnt it ?
>
> Nice to see Dome back though! Supprise to see
> Aston too, I thought they pulled out for '10 in
> favour of '11? Hope to see an epic battle between
> Dome and Aston then :p!
>
> off-topic - I only recently learnt that one of the
> windtunnels Honda used to develop the BGP001 was
> in fact Domes !


No, this is the list of teams who have accepted their invitation/are on the list, if some of them drop out anyway for what ever reason the reserves will take their spot. All teams where all asked to nominate 1 driver, but I guess theres a chance that some of the nominated drivers won't make it anyway, the final list with all driver line-up's is expected in May I believe.





Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/05/2010 02:52PM by Iceman-Kimi.

Fizzy's on reserve?

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"Trulli was slowing down like he wanted to have a picnic" LOL

Yep, but I wouldn't be suprised if he got thrown into the already entered AF Corse car if the AF Corse car on the reserve list doesn't make it.

It will be interesting to see who Peugeot gets to replace Brabham, and possibly Klien (although they will probably take him back now that it looks like he won't get a F1 seat)

There is no clash with the WRC, so maybe Loeb or even Raikkonen could be drafted in from the other major PSA motorsports team.

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This is a race I have to see in loco one day.

I think I should start planning to go next year to it. Hope that in 2011, there is still competition for the overall victory as we have with Pegeout vs. Audi, no like when Audi dominated the 24 hrs alone.

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Bad news. No dome.

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"Trulli was slowing down like he wanted to have a picnic" LOL