7 July 2020 Archives

37 cars for opening round

Tuesday July 7th, 2020 Jens Jensen

European Le Mans Series expects 37 cars at the 2020 season opener next week at Paul Ricard. The start of the season was pushed back three and a half months, after the COVID-19 situation made it impossible to have the originally planned start in April. The number of participants is a bit lower, compared to the one released back in March, but that is only natural, since some teams and driver no longer have the economical background to race this year. 15 cars will run in the LMP2 category. Algarve…

AMR guest appearances in ELMS and new driver in WEC

Tuesday July 7th, 2020Tuesday July 7th, 2020 Jens Jensen

Aston Martin Racing will have an guest appearance in the European Le Mans Series for a couple of weekends. The British team enters a single Aston Martin Vantage GTE car at the Paul Ricard and Spa Francorchamps rounds. The rules for GTE in the ELMS dictate at least one Bronze driver in the car, which effectively is a GTE Am car in the FIA WEC rules. So it will be car #98 from the FIA WEC, who will run these races. Paul Dalla Lana will be joined by his regular…