"LM"S 08 rumors

[HORNDAWG]

Swiss Spirit will be back in 08 with Phoenix. After a prolonged legal battle the Lola/Audi will, if accepted, be on the grid in the LMS next year. link

[HORNDAWG]

Charouz Lola B08/60 Aston Martin with Enge, Mucke and Jan Charouz to drive. Using the homologated Aston Martin V-12 from the DBR9
Via DSC

[HORNDAWG]

.......................................Speculative 2009 LMS Entries

P-1
3 Scuderia Lavaggi Lavaggi LS1 AER (Lavaggi, Kaufmann)
4 Saulnier Racing/Pescarolo Pescarolo Judd (Nicolet, Faggionato, Hein)
5 Team Oreca Matmut Courage-Oreca LC70 - AIM (Ortelli, Ayari)
6 Team Oreca Matmut Courage-Oreca LC70 - AIM (Panis, Lapierre)
7 Peugeot Total Peugeot 908 HDi FAP (N.Minassian, M.Gene, TBA)
8 Peugeot Total Peugeot 908 HDi FAP (S.Sarrazin, P.Lamy, TBA)
10 Charouz Racing System TBA (J.Charouz, Mucke)
12 Charouz Racing System TBA (TBA, TBA)
14 Creation Autosportif Creation CA07 Judd (J. Campbell-Walter, Ortiz, TBA)
15 Creation Autosportif Creation CA07 Judd (Hall, Pagneaud)
16 Pescarolo Sport Pescarolo Judd (Collard, J-C.Boullion)
17 Pescarolo Sport Pescarolo Judd (Primat, Tinseau)
20 Epsilon Euskadi EE-2 Judd (TBA, TBA)
21 Epsilon Euskadi EE-2 Judd (TBA, TBA)


P-2

25 RML Lola B08/80 MZR-R (T.Erdos, M.Newton, Wallace)
26 Bruichladdich Radical Radical SR9 -AER (TBA, TBA)
27 Horag Racing Porsche RS Spyder (TBA, TBA)
XX Racing Box Lola B08/80 Judd (Ceccato, Francioni, Geri)
30 Racing Box Lola B08/80 Judd (TBA, TBA)
32 Barazi-Epsilon Zytek 07S Zytek (J.Barazi, M.Vergers)
33 Speedy Racing Team Sebah Lola B08/80 Judd (Belicchi, Zacchia, Pompidou)
35 Saulnier Racing/Pescarolo Pescarolo Sodemo BMW (Ragues, TBA)
37 WR/Salini WR Zytek (S.Salini, P.Salini, TBA)
40 Quifel ASM Ginetta-Zytek 09S Zytek (M.Amaral, Pla)
41 Trading Perfromance Zytek 07S - Zytek (K.OjjehC-Y.Gosselin, J.Schroyen)
44 Kruse Schiller Motorsports Lola B05/40 Mazda (Pourtales, Müller, Noda)


GT-1

55 IPB Spartak Racing Lamborghini Murcielago G-GT (Kox, Rusinov)
61 Strakka Racing Aston Martin DBR9 (Leventis, Hardman) or P-2 G-Z
72 Luc Alphand Aventures Corvette C6-R (L.Alphand, Moreau)
73 Luc Alphand Aventures Corvette C6-R (J-L.Blanchemain, Dumez, Berville)

GT-2

75 IMSA Performance Porsche 911 997 GT3 RSR (Balandras, Lecourt, Belloc)
76 IMSA Performance Porsche 911 997 GT3 RSR (R.Narac, R.Lietz, TBA)
77 Felbermayr/Proton Porsche 911 997 GT3 RSR (M.Lieb, Davison)
85 Spyker Squadron Spyker C8 Laviolette GT2R (Coronel, Dumbrek)
86 Spyker Squadron Spyker C8 Laviolette GT2R (Kelleners, Vassiliev)
88 Felbermayr/Proton Porsche 911 997 GT3 RSR (Felbermayr jr., Ried)
90 Farnbacher Racing Porsche 911 997 GT3 RSR (Nielsen, Simonson, Westbrook)
91 Farnbacher Racing Ferrari F430GT (P.Ehret, Kaffer, Beltoise)
93 James Watt Automotive Porsche 911 997 GT3 RSR (Daniels, Sugden, Camathias)
94 Speedy Racing Spyker C8 Spyder GT2R (A.Chiesa, Camandona, Leuenberger)
95 James Watt Automotive AMR Vantage GT-2 (TBA, TBA)
96 Virgo Motorsport Ferrari F430 GT (R.Bell, Bruni)
98 JMB Racing Ferrari F430 GT (TBA, TBA)
99 JMB Racing Ferrari F430 GT (Aucott, Daoudi)
XX Team Modena Ferrari F430 GT (TBA, TBA)
XX Team Modena Ferrari F430 GT (TBA, TBA)
XX Barwell Motorsports AMR Vantage GT-2 (TBA, TBA)
XX Barwell Motorsports AMR Vantage GT-2 (TBA, TBA)

[WMUCarGuy]

There's a story on EI saying that Bill Binnie's daughter has a serious disease, and because of it, they will not be racing at all this year. They hope to be back in 2009 though.

It's a bummer as they're one of my favorite endurance racing teams, but hopefully his daughter makes a quick recovery.

[Marcel ten Caat]

Team ORECA-Matmut has confirmed its driver lineup.

Olivier Panis and Nicolas Lapierre will be racing in one of the team's Courage-ORECA LC70s, Stéphane Ortelli and Soheil Ayari are going to be in the other car.

[Bora Lab]

Its starting to sound like McNish may be one of the Audi LMS drivers. I know he wants to add an LMS championship to his belt. Seems like they wouldve kept the Beila/Pirro combo for LMS and let the other guys stay stateside.

[HORNDAWG]

Evidently the story that Aston Martin via Gordon Murray are working on a LeMans overall winner may be pre-mature. Robin Brundle (Aston Martin Racing Chairman) when queried about the subject Friday, at the Autosport International show, evidently said; No!

[WMUCarGuy]

Looks like Reiter will run some LMS races in 2008 as well as FIA GT in their Lambo.

[HORNDAWG]

Originally Posted by WMUCarGuy

Looks like Reiter will run some LMS races in 2008 as well as FIA GT in their Lambo.

This is evidently not Reiter. Its reportedly a Russian team running Reiter built and engineer supported cars and will have Peter Kox as one of the drivers. link

[HORNDAWG]

Well it seems that the trimmed entry list will end up with about 30 Protos and 20 GTs according to what Cotton has heard. So most of the trimming will come from the GT-2 class it looks like. link