Day: April 11, 2019

ELMS gets night race

Jens Jensen

European Le Mans Series will join in with a night race of their own. The series have tweaked the 2019 schedule a bit, so the 4 hours at Circuit de Catalunya will be run on Saturday evening 20 July, instead of the traditional Sunday afternoon, which is the usual time for the ELMS races. That makes the race start at 18.30 local time, with the race finishing on a slightly floodlit track, but not on the same level as we know from things like Formula 1. The official reasoning is…

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Family affairs in LMP3

Jens Jensen

There are three cars in the Michelin Le Mans Cup, where the two drivers know each other exceptionally well. At the opening round of the 2019 season at Paul Ricard in the south of France, there are three father-and-son combinations racing. We have had Alexander Talkanitsa Snr and Jr in the same car for several seasons, where AT Racing most recently raced in the European Le Mans Series. They have changed to the Michelin Le Mans Cup now, where they can do all the running themselves, without an added third…

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