Day: March 22, 2019

Roussel back in the ELMS

Jens Jensen

Leo Roussel returns to the European Le Mans Series in 2019. The LMP2 Champion from 2017 has signed with Inter Europol Competition, who expands the team with a LMP2 car. Roussel had signed for the CEFC TRSM Racing LMP1 team in the FIA World Endurance Championship 2018/19, but the programme has already closed down due to economical issues with their Chinese title sponsor. So Roussel didn’t do much of racing in 2018, but did compete at Le Mans with the Ginetta car. The 23 year-old Frenchman was a silver-ranked driver…

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DHH: “I couldn’t be happier”

Jens Jensen

David Heinemeier Hansson grabbed a career first LMP2 win in the FIA World Endurance Championship, at the 1000 Miles of Sebring, which was run last week. DHH raced for the Jackie Chan DC Racing outfit at Sebring, where he was joined by Will Stevens and Jordan King in the #37. They had taken over that car from the Malaysian trio of Weiron Tan, Jazeman Jaafar and Nabil Jeffri, who drove the car through the 2018 part of the 2018/19 Super Season, that culminated at Le Mans in June 2019. Racing24-7.net…

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VLN Endurance Championship Nürburgring 2019 – an exciting start in the season

Stefan Schneider

The VLN Endurance Championship will kick off the season with VLN 1 this week Saturday, March 23rd. Despite the BoP Discussion for GT3 in SPX and SP9 classes, which is still boiling in the background, fans can look forward to a massive turn up at the Ring. The preliminary starters list has 170 cars registered, with 25 GT3 cars in SP9, 2 more GT3 in SPX, and over 10 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup in the other classes. Only Wochenspiegel Team Monschau, as previously announced, will stay absent with its two…

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