Day: July 17, 2020

New Le Mans entry list for the 2020 edition

Jens Jensen

The ACO has announced an updated entry list for this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans. The COVID-19 situation has taken another bite off the entry list, so we have used up the 10 original reserves, that actually were ready to race. Several of those have also called their participation off. That gives us a current list of 60 cars entered for this year’s race. The LMP1 category has lost one of the Team LNT Ginetta cars, which was slated to be raced by Charlie Robertson, Ben Hanley and Egor…

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Friday ELMS practice at Paul Ricard

Jens Jensen

The European Le Mans Series finally got their first race weekend of 2020 going. After doing two days of testing, the teams had another two hours of practice today, ahead of another practice session Saturday morning, followed by qualifying. United Autosports topped LMP2 in the opening practice, with #22 driven by Filipe Albuquerque and Phil Hanson as the fastest car, ahead of Will Owen, Alex Brundle and Job van Uitert in #32. DragonSpeed #21 was the third-fastest car with Memo Rojas, Ben Hanley and Ryan Cullen. The afternoon session, which…

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Michelin Le Mans Cup test day

Jens Jensen

Michelin Le Mans Cup held their pre-season test day Thursday, ahead of the season start on Saturday afternoon. There was a practice session in the morning, and one in the afternoon for the 25 participating teams this weekend. United Autosports #23 with John Schauerman and Wayne Boyd was the fastest in LMP3 during the first session, ahead of Cool Racing #69 with Maurice Smith sat Ben Barnicoat and Nielsen Racing #10 with Rob Hodes and Garett Grist. In the GT3 category was Kessel Racing Ferrari #74 with Michael Broniszewski and…

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