+Vote!
Straightline (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
A 1923 specially restored Ford Model T returned to the famous Le Mans 24 Hours circuit for the 2008 Le Mans Classic. This significant car took part in the very first Le Mans 24 hour race in 1923, and never before has such an old car participated in this prestigious biennial meeting of Le Mans Classic. The press release and more after the jump.
+Vote!
Crash.Net (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
Gigawave Motorsport has announced the signing of Le Mans 24 Hours winner Darren Turner for the Spa 24 Hours next month.Turner, winner of the GT1 class with the factory Aston Martin Racing team for the past two years, will join Philipp Peter and Allan Simonsen at the wheel of the teams Aston Martin DBR9 for its first assault on a 24 hour long endurance race.The team will be chasing a strong result...
+Vote!
Auto Spectator (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
... Martin GT-2 cars. Matos was forced to pit and the team had to replace front suspension pieces. Le Mans veteran Franck Montagny drove hard to the finish, despite an eight-lap deficit to bring the XM Acura to seventh in the LMP2 category.The No. 66 Panasonic ELS Sound de Ferran Motorsports Acura ARX-01b car, which started from the pole position with team owner and former Indy 500 champion...
+Vote!
CARSCOOP (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008
A one-off 1960s prototype Jaguar Le Mans race car worth an estimated £14 million (about $27 million or €18 million) will take part at the Bradford Classic this Saturday on July 19, 2008. The XJ13 that is owned by Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust (JDHT) and kept in its museum in Coventry is very rarely seen - let alone run- and it is believed that this is the first time it has ever run through a...
+Vote!
Motorsports Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
AMERICAN LE MANS SERIES De Ferran Motorsports De Ferran Motorsports crew member Keith Jones, injured in Saturday's American Le Mans Series race at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, was transferred Tuesday from the Ohio State University Medical Center to the Richard M. Fairbanks Burn Center at Wishard in the Wishard Health Services in Indianapolis.
+Vote!
This is Bath (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Local Jaguar enthusiast racer Neil Fender returned from the historic 24 Hours of Le Mans with a trophy. Fender, together with XK restoration specialist Guy Broad, clinched the team award for sports cars built between 1950 and 1955. ...
+Vote!
Motorsports Blog (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Audi Ingolstadt - Le Mans winning Audi R10 TDI contests “World of Race Cars” - Ironman Normann Stadler and German ski ladies visit DTM - Audi factory drivers receive new RS 6 as company car 1,000 garage employees from the Western Region will turn the DTM race at the Nürburgring into a home race for Audi. But not only the grandstands will be filled with roaring enthusiasm for the seventh round...
+Vote!
Endurance Races (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
De Ferran Motorsports crew member Keith Jones, injured in Saturday’s American Le Mans Series race at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, was transferred Tuesday from the Ohio State University Medical Center to the Richard M. Fairbanks Burn Center at Wishard in the Wishard Health Services in Indianapolis. Jones’ condition has been updated from critical to serious [...]
+Vote!
Top Speed (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Posted on 07.22.2008 14:17 by Maxx Biker Anyone in the motorcycle world knows or has heard of, the 24 hours of Le Mans, both cars and motorcycles versions. The race was made even more legendary after Steve McQueen starred in the 1971 movie “Le Mans”. The motorcycle version of this race is as impressive as its car counter part. But did you know there's another, equally impressive, 24...
+Vote!
Endurance Races (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Local favorites Intersport Racing scored another LMP1 podium finish in Saturday’s Acura Sports Car Challenge at Mid-Ohio, the sixth round of the American Le Mans Series season. The Dublin, Ohio-based team’s No. 30 Lola B06/10 AER of Ryan Lewis and John Faulkner finished third in class in their Series debut while the sister No. 37 [...]
+Vote!
The New Liturgical Movement (Free subscription) | yesterday
"C enómanis, in Gállia, sancti Libórii, Epíscopi et Confessóris" - At Le Mans in France, St. Liborius, Bishop and Confessor. This is today's lapidary entry in the Roman Martyrology for St. Liborius, and in fact not much more is known with certainty about his life than he was bishop of this city in the fourth century - tradition has it that he was the fourth bishop, a friend of St. Martin of...
+Vote!
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
... bars/snackbars. We noticed several vintage cars onboard, and found out many people were headed to Le Mans Racetrack for a Heritage Race. The comfort of the ferry was soon overridden by the rough waters, and the numerous kids that had been downing junk food and running wild, were soon felled by seasickness, as were many others! I started to feel pretty crappy, myself, so headed for the aft...
+Vote!
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
... green about the new RS is its paint. The retina-straining hue is a modern interpretation of the Le Mans green of its RS1600 Escort ancestor.A completely re-engineered car, the RS is more than merely a warmed-over ST. Wider wheel arches cover a widened track, the RS is an overtly-styled mega-hatch.Jost Capito, head of Team RS, said that while the heavier, more expensive four-wheel-drive option...
+Vote!
France Forums (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
... as good as you say, I'll keep a look-out. Logged Criterion for French property - within an hour of Le Mans
