Champion splits record-winning line-up.

American Le Mans Series team ADT Champion Racing will head to this year's Le Mans 24 Hours in the knowledge that it has rejected the opportunity to reunite one of the most successful driver combinations in the race's history.

The team, which has one guaranteed entry and expects to be offered a second after next month's Sebring 12 Hours, has opted to pair six-time winner Tom Kristensen with last year's ALMS titleists JJ Lehto and Marco Werner in its #1 car, with Emanuele Pirro, Frank Biela and Allan McNish piloting the second entry at Sebring and, hopefully, Le Mans. Pirro and Biela shared three back-to-back wins at Le Mans with Kristensen between 2000-02, while the Dane took another with Bentley in 2003 and made it five in a row with the team Goh Audi last season.

Kristensen and Lehto reform their Sebring winning partnership from 1999, when they shared a BMW V12 LMR with Jorg Muller, and will begin their season racing in the US classic, where Kristensen won in 2000 with Audi, next month.

Pirro and Biela return full-time to sportscars after a brief spell in the DTM, while McNish moves in the opposite direction, contesting a limited sportscar programme while dovetailing the endurance classics with a maiden DTM campaign.