2008 24H of Le Mans official thread !!!

[SEATFreak]

What's the story with LMP 2? Who's on top? I notice they get little attention.

In Free Practice 1 it was Barazi Epsilon in the Zytek (Juan Barazi, Michael Vergers & Stuart Moseley) with a time of 3:47.349 and in Free Practice 2 it was Van Merksteijn Motorsport in a Porsche RS Spyder (Peter van Merksteijn, Jos Verstappen & Jeroen Bleekemolen) with a faster topping time of 3:42.191.

I don't know why they get little attention. Three teams are British based.

"RML" of Tommy Erdos (who now lives in Milton Keynes), Mike Newton and Andy Wallace in an MG Lola, "Team Bruichladdich Radical" who race a Radical AER with Marc Rostan, Ben Devlin and Paul Thomas, and Embassy Racing in an Embassy Zytec with Johnny Kane, Joey Foster and Warren Hughes.

[edv]

Hope it doesn't turn into another Audi benefit. Just hope the Peugeot's are reliable. And fast.

Well, they did pretty darned good at Spa last month, winning the race. Let's hope they can stretch that reliability for 24 hours.

[Tom206wrc]

More pics

http://www.motorsport.com/photos/sel..._scrutineering


Start of qualifying practice un about one hour...

[harvick#1]

audi #2 with the yellow looks disgusting, they should've used Silver instead

[Scuderia ferrari]

Yeah! Hindy read my email out on radio le mans!

[KK3869]

Dumas binned his Pescarolo during the night session.

[SEATFreak]

DT's Aston Martin team ain't doing that well. As I write 6th in the GT1 class behind both Corevette's, Labre Competition and IPB Spartak Racing and the #007 Aston Martins. But Brabham is in the #009 Aston. If DT were in he would creame the others!

As expected though in LMP1 the top 3 are all Peugeot's with the next 3 all the Audis.

http://www.lemans.org/24heuresdumans...hronos_gb.html

[KK3869]

Noda flipped his Mazda at end of the session, hes alright though.

[Tom206wrc]

I didn't expect Franck Montagny to be almost as fast as Stéphane Sarrazin, more used to the car

Also interesting that Alex Wurz and Ricardo Zonta were constantly under the 3'30" during the night practice

[harvick#1]

very surprised in the Q-session.

what happened to the Lola-Aston???
what happened to Aston Martins GT1 speed???

was Audi Holding back (prolly just like last year)
how good can the Porsche RS Spyders can be, they are definitely the top of LMP2.