Bonner rejoins Binnie for Le Mans assault.

Although he won't form part of the driver line-up, Scottish racer Alan Bonner is to again team up with Bill Binnie as the Binnie Motorsport team prepares to take on the Le Mans 24 Hours this coming weekend.

Binnie and Bonner last raced together in the 2005 Britcar 5 hours and - although he would rather be racing - Bonner said he was thrilled to be involved with the team for the most famous endurance race of them all.

"It's absolutely brilliant, for sure I'd rather be driving but there's no other team I would rather spend the time with than Bill Binnie's crew," he said. "You never know, maybe my time will come."

Binne will share the LMP2 class Lola with Allen Timpany and Yoriro Terada for the race and said he was hopeful that the trio will be able to have a good run when the race kicks off on Saturday.

"We are all looking forward to a good run this weekend," he said. "I am driving my own car with my own team and that is very special for me, after a two hour stint, crossing the finish line to win Le Mans in 2004 was the best four minutes of my life and I am privileged to be competing here again.

"Sharing the seat with me from England is Allen Timpany whom I am racing with in the Le Mans Series, earlier this year we were on the podium together at Sebring, my other team mate is Japanese Le Mans veteran Yojiro Terada. Yojiro and I drove together last year [in the WR Peugeot] and I am delighted he has joined Binnie Motorsport in our Lola."

The Binnie Lola will enter Le Mans with a new Zytek engine - and will be the only Zytek powered car in LMP2, something Binnie said would be interesting come race day as the team takes the fight to the other Lolas on the gird, all of which are powered by AER engines.

"It's no secret that we have changed engine supplier to Zytek, in fact we are the only Zytek LMP2 engined car out there and I am really interested to see how the AER engines will fair in race pace," he said. "We had a few gearbox and suspension problems on the test day but we have a great team manager in Derek Kemp who is well on top of things and everything should be ironed out come the race. I feel really positive with our engine and drive train configuration and as long as we keep going around and around we should still be there at the end.

"We have only had two outings this year and it was great to be on the podium in the first race. However we would have won Sebring had it not have been for a loose water hose on the radiator. We were again on the podium in our second outing at Spa in LMS so we come here with good preparations and lots of laps under our belts.

"There will be quicker LMP2 cars but the secret of Le Mans is to make no mistakes and not to break the car, I believe the cars to beat will be RML and Chamberlain, I've won with Intersport so we know how good they are and perhaps the Rollcentre car may give a surprise, we'll know for sure on Sunday afternoon."