Le Mans News

Creation Autosportif has retained the services of super-quick Anglo-French duo Jamie Campbell-Walter and Nicolas Minassian for its 2005 campaign, which is expected again combine the Le Mans Endurance and American Le Mans series.

Double FIA GT Championship winners, BMS Scuderia Italia, have finalised an agreement with Care Racing Development to campaign two of its Prodrive-developed Ferrari 550 Maranellos in the GT1 category of the 2005 Le Mans Endurance Series.

David Brabham has joined his fellow Prodrive driver Darren Turner in praising the new Aston Martin DBR9 Le Mans racer that is set to debut in GT racing in 2005.

Despite three highly successful years spent competing in sportscar championships across Europe and the USA, Veloqx Motorsport has been forced to announce that it will not be in action in 2005.

On the same day that he and Mark Blundell revealed that they were to mount an assault on the 2006 Le Mans 24 Hours, Martin Brundle visited Aston Martin's headquarters in the UK to see the unveiling of the car the two Britons hope to run in the French classic.

The Audi R8 continues to write motorsport history after the most successful Le Mans prototype of all time celebrated its 50th victory in the 1000km of Spa-Francorchamps.

Jamie Davies and Johnny Herbert claimed the Le Mans Endurance Series LMP1 title with victory in the fourth and final round of the season at Spa Francorchamps.

It was a dramatic start to the Spa 1000k for the No.8 Audi of Pierre Kaffer and Allan McNish. Just twenty laps in the Veloqx R8 made contact with the RSR Racing TVR being driven by Jonny Kane. The TVR was out, and a flaming Audi returned to the pits...

Team Nasamax failed to finish the final event of the LMES season after a bizarre incident saw the bio-ethanol powered Nasamax Judd crash out of the 1000km of Spa.

Although encouraged by its fifth place performance in the third round of the Le Mans Endurance Series at Silverstone last month, Team Nasamax is determined to find greater pace for this weekend's fourth and final outing in Belgium.

British GT Championship contender Adam Sharpe will compete in this weekend's Le Mans Endurance Series Spa 1000kms driving the Salisbury Motorsports TVR alongside Steve Hyde and team regular John Hartshorne.

John Ingram Jr believes that the Tracsport team can put the disappointment of their home race behind them as the small outfit continues to work towards its dream of an entry into the Le Mans 24 hours.

The LMES is in Britain for the first time for the 1000km of Silverstone. Crash.net asked Rick Pearson of British team Tracsport to describe a lap of the circuit.

Small British team Graham Nash Motorsport claimed a fine third place finish in the GTS class of the Nurburgring 1000km race, ending the race in tenth place overall.

Allan McNish and Pierre Kaffer turned the tables on their Audi UK Team Veloqx team by winning round two of the new Le Mans Endurance Series at the Nurburgring.

Ex-BTCC star Phil Bennett will team up with Gian Maria Gabbiani for this weekend's Le Mans Endurance Series race at the Nurburgring, having inked a one-race deal to drive the Graham Nash Motorsport Saleen S7-R.

Christian Vann and the Taurus Sports Racing Lola came within a whisker of recording a remarkable top-ten finish at last weekend's Le Mans 24 Hours.

Only a few days removed from scoring a class win in the 24 Hours of Le Mans this past weekend, and being awake for 48 straight hours in the process, Clint Field is back home in Ohio and the reality of his accomplishment is starting to set in.

After a dramatic and incident-packed Le Mans 24 Hours, the Nasamax DM139-Judd crossed the line in 17th of the 26 finishers with Robbie Stirling at the wheel, but notched up two notable firsts along the way.

Adam Sharpe successfully completed his debut in the gruelling Le Mans 24 Hours SUnday, the 19 year old from Taunton, Somerset, joining team-mates Neil Cunningham and Steve Hyde in bringing the Morgan Works Racing Aero GT car to the finish.

Gavin Pickering's 2004 Le Mans 24 Hours ended in retirement when his Epsilon Sport Courage C65 engine cried enough at approximately 2.10am.

A Porsche 911 GT3 has now won the GT class at the 24 Hours of Le Mans every year since its introduction in 1999.

For Chris Dyson and his Racing For Holland teammates, the 24 Hours of Le Mans proved to be a drama in three acts, with a promising beginning, substantial challenges in the middle act and in conclusion a strong effort that largely overcame the earlier setbacks and made Dyson the highest-placed Ame

Allan McNish missed out on winning his second Le Mans 24 Hours when the Scotsman endured a miserable weekend in this year's race.