Le Mans News

Veloqx Motorsport has confirmed that it will representing Audi UK in next year's Le Mans 24 Hours, as well as the inaugural Le Mans Endurance Series, having been granted customer support by the German marque to run an R8 prototype.

The collaboration between Veloqx Motorsport and Care Racing, using cars built and developed by Prodrive, paid off handsomely once again as the two Ferrari 550 Maranellos run by the Veloqx Care Racing team finished first and second in the GTS category - and fifth and sixth overall - in the six-hou

The sound of the Elan Power Products V8 may have had a familiar ring, but sportscar fans this week have been treated to the sight of the Panoz 'Batmobile' for the first time since 1998.

JML Team Panoz will go "back to the future" at the forthcoming Le Mans 1000km on November 9 by entering one of the original Panoz GTR1 roadsters which first competed in the 24 hour in 1997.

Team Bentley and Bentley Motors are delighted to confirm that examples of their Le Mans winning Speed 8 prototype and new Continental GT will be in action at the annual Bentley Drivers Club meeting at Silverstone on Saturday, August 30th.

Bentley Motors has confirmed that both its triumphant Speed 8 Le Mans prototypes will be seen in action at the Goodwood Festival of Speed next weekend [11-13 July], giving British fans unable to travel to La Sarthe a first chance to see the cars.

Beating the highly-fancied Chevrolet Corvettes and racking up a first class victory at Le Mans for the Ferrari 550 Maranello was a major achievement for the fledgling Veloqx Prodrive combination - and the enormity of the success is still registering on the men behind the scenes who made it possib

Graham Nash Motorsport's No.64 Saleen S7-R, driven by an all FIA GT line-up of Erdos, Newton and Chaves, suffered a double blow after running strongly for 5 minutes shy of 23 hours in the GTS class at this year's Le Mans 24 Hour race.

The Le Mans 24 hour is one of the grueling on the world motorsport calendar, but this past weekend MG XPOWER lasted the distance to take the Durango team to the chequered flag in the French classic.

Oliver Gavin, Kelly Collins and Andy Pilgrim brought their #50 Corvette C5-R into second in the GTS Class and 11th overall at the 2003 Le Mans 24 Hours, the greatest sportscar race in the World.

Anthony Davidson's first Le Mans 24 Hours ended prematurely when he suffered a big accident at the Mulsanne corner during the darkness hours of the endurance classic.

JML Team Panoz may have held their positions of sixth and ninth through to the halfway point of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, but Olivier Beretta was lucky to escape after suffering a major night-time incident at more than 300kph.

Anthony Davidson is currently en route to the Le Mans circuit medical centre following a heavy impact with the barriers at the end of the Mulsanne straight.

The ACEMCO Motorsport Ferrari 360 Modena has retired from the Le Mans 24 Hours after ten-and-a-half hours and a spell at the front of the closely-contested.GT class.

The Ferrari 550 Maranello GTS of Luc Alphand Aventures/Solution F has enjoyed a solid start to its Le Mans campaign, and the Care Racing-owned car has run steadily in the top three for most of the opening quarter of the round-the-clock event.

Despite a very promising second qualifying session and a good warm up, the gorgeous, but very new Pagani Zonda GR retired from the Le Mans 24 Hours after only 11 laps, the team's second early exit in two major 2003 endurances.

The 71st running of the 24 Heures du Mans began under sunny French skies at almost exactly 4pm local time with Bentley boys Rinaldo Capello and Johnny Herbert providing a memorable first lap demonstration run in the two dark green Speed 8's.

The Automobile Club de l'Ouest today revealed the formation of a four-race series next year, confirming the announcement made at the Le Mans trials in May.

Jamie Campbell-Walter has admitted responsibility after the accident that forced the Lister team to withdraw from the Le Mans 24-hours after an accident during the second day of qualifying on Thursday.

The British Lister Storm LMP 900 machine, which competed at Sebring earlier this year, was heavily damaged in an accident in the first qualifying practice session last night. Driver Jamie Campbell-Walter impacted the barriers after a long high-speed slide just after the Dunlop Bridge.

Team Bentley's two Speed 8 prototypes will start this weekend's Le Mans 24-hour race from the front row of the grid.

It's the most famous week leading up to the most famous race in sportscar racing, and Audi is out in force once again as it prepares to enter the 71st running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans with three privateer teams - Team ADT Champion Racing, Audi Sport UK and Audi Sport Japan Team Goh.

US motorsport broadcaster SPEED Channel will return to the 24 Hours of Le Mans for the eighth consecutive year in 2003, ready to bring viewers 17 hours of live coverage from the 71st running of the round-the-clock classic.

23 year-old Englishman Gavin Pickering has signed to Paris based sportscar team Welter Racing for the forthcoming Le Mans 24 Hours.