Day: March 25, 2018

Panis Barthez Competition with 4 Le Mans victories on the team

Jens Jensen

Panis Barthez Competition has seriously upgraded their European Le Mans Series LMP2 team for the 2018 season. The team has removed the weakest links, and now enters one of the strongest possible line-ups possible in LMP2. Timothe Buret is the only returnee on the French team, which is led by the former Formula 1 driver Olivier Panis. He started the team back in 2016 with the former football goalkeeper, Fabien Barthez. Barthez have been driving the LMP2 car himself so far, but steps aside and lets another driver take his…

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Mann, Howard and Daly return to Indy 500

Jens Jensen

When the 102nd edition of the Indianapolis 500 will be run this May, three Indy veterans will try to qualify for the race. The English duo Pippa Mann and Jay Howard will enter their 7th and 4th Indy 500 races respectively, while Conor Daly with the Northern Irish descent will try to get into his 5th Indy 500. They are the officially 31st, 32nd and 33th drivers entered for the race, but there are a few more expected to enter, so there will be actual bumping happening for the 33…

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Cetilar Villorba Corse with the same line-up

Jens Jensen

The LMP2 team Cetilar Villorba Corse will continue with the same line-up in 2018. The Italian team participates in the European Le Mans Series, and have received an entry for the 24 Hours of Le Mans as well. Team boss Christian Pescatori once again opted for Andrea Belicchi, Roberto Lacorte og Giorgio Sernagiotto. The two latter drivers will do their 9th season together, while Belicchi was a new man at the team in 2017l Belicchi has both LMP1 and LMP2 experience from other times, where he among many other things,…

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Cold start to the VLN season

Rob Fitzgerald

1⁰ Celsius & thick fog greeted us for qualifying at the opening round of VLN – the 64th running of the ADAC Westfalenfahrt. A pretty clean session, albeit delayed by 20 minutes, just a couple of lazy spins, a smoking and/or steaming #400 Cayman and heavy rear end damage to the #609 Porsche of Wolfgang Destree. As the session came to a close, there was a coming together involving three of the production BMWs at the Yokohama S, but at least two of them would be fine for the race.…

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BWT Mücke Motorsport with a triple

Jens Jensen

BWT Mücke Motorsport are ready for the ADAC GT Masters 2018 with three identical cars. The team has traditionally been a Mercedes team, but two Audi R8 LMS cars sneaked into the workshop in 2017 for their ADAC GT Masters season and selected VLN rounds. The Mercedes-AMG GT3 has been pushed aside this year, and instead the team has opted to run a third Audi. Stefen Mücke will share one of the cars with Jeffrey Schmidt, who drove for Montaplast by Land Motorsport last year. There will be some races,…

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