Day: September 22, 2018

The European Le Mans Series race at Spa Francorchamps will start earlier tomorrow. Instead of the planned start just past midday, the green flag will be shown at 10.45 CET, since a heavy rainfall is expected to hit the track around 15.00. But don’t expect a dry race for the 4 hours anyway, but it should intensify around 3 o’clock. The changes will result in the cancellation of the Pitwalk and Autograph session, but there is a risk of rain during that one anyway, which would had put a damper…

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The mechanics on Graff #39 have a long night ahead. Jonathan Hirschi crashed the car heavily during the Saturday practice session, and the team wasn’t able to get it ready for qualifying. It actually turns out now that the tub itself has cracked at the suspension mounting points. That’s a part of the carbon fibre monocoque, and not something that you can just change. So Graff went to TDS Racing, asking them for permission to borrow their ORECA 07 tub, which they had brought as a spare, and luckily got…

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Both IDEC Sport will start with different driver line-ups this weekend in the European Le Mans Series. Paul Lafargue has had an accident prior to the weekend, which is of so severe, that he has to go to the hospital for an operation. His father Patrice, won’t be present at the track this weekend either, to be with his son. Paul is usually piloting car #28, while Patrice is in #27. That results in the team having to call up on both team boss/reserve driver Nicolas Minassian for #27, while…

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After rain showers in the morning, the asphalt was almost dry again at the start of the European Le Mans Series qualifying at Spa Francorchamps, and it gave us a few surprises, but also domination by others. The Ferrari teams JMW Motorsport #66, Spirit of Race #55 and Krohn Racing #83 were swift to get on the track and start their flying laps, while the Porsche teams Proton Competition #77 and #88 plus Ebimotors #80 were a bit more relaxed. And absolutely nobody could match Proton Competition. They smacked up…

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RLR MSport will return to the LMP2 category in 2019, when the European Le Mans Series will start again The team has previously participated in the category from 2010 until 2015, including start at Le Mans, but has since 2016 only focussed on LMP3. This season has been going really well, with two out of four possible victories with Job van Uitert, John Farano and Rob Garofall. The team has bought an ORECA 07, and already tested it back in August. It was van Uitert, Farano and Alex Brundle running…

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There were plenty of stoppages when the second Free Practice for the European Le Mans Series was run at Spa Francorchamps. Two red flags and a Full Course Yellow, mixed in with rain showers that were coming and going, making it hard for the teams to get any useful running done regarding set-ups or long runs. G-Drive Racing #26 with Jean-Eric Vergne was the fastest, while the track was still dry, followed by Duqueine Engineering #29 with Nicolas Jamin and IDEC Sport #28 with Paul Loup Chatin. In the LMP3…

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