Introduction
Without a doubt the 2007 edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans was one of the most highly anticipated of recent years. The prospect of two Works teams racing against eachother for overal victory got every enthusiasts heart beating faster. Unfortunately Audi's incredible reliability got the better of the fast, but fragile Peugeots. In the second half of the season, the French team showed better reliability to match their incredible speed. In 2008 the two diesel powered machines will face off not once, but at least seven times. The bulk of those are in the five Le Mans Series races. The two factory teams are just the icing on the cake as the season entry is strong throughout. In LMP1 they are joined by the ever strong Pescarolos, the refurbished Oreca-Courages and the all new Lola Aston Martin. Big news was also the arrival (finally) of the Porsche RS Spyder in the LMP2 class. With the ever increasing number of great prototype entries, there is less and less room for GT-racers. That is particularly obvious in GT1 where there are only five full season entries. In GT2 the traditional Ferrari vs Porsche will grab the headlines while Spyker and Aston Martin should be ready to profit from any mishaps from the top runners.
In all the 2008 Le Mans Series has all the right ingredients for an absolutely stellar season. Due to conflicting schedules, we can not attend every race, but on this page we will keep track of events as the season unfolds.

Paul Ricard official test
Having already tested at Paul Ricard extensively over the winter, Peugeot decided to skip the official test, so we had to wait a little longer before the titans face off. Audi was present and the two R10s were easily the fastest cars on the track. There were also no surprises at the head of the LMP2 field with the RS Spyders present topping the field. The surprises were actually behind the top runners in the two prototype classes. Powered by a brand new V10 engine, the Creation was best of the rest ahead of the Courage-Oreca and the Lola Aston Martin. In P2 there was a strong debut of the all-new Lola Coupe, which clocked top times on its very first outing. The most interesting new GT-car was the Aston Martin V8 Vantage, which was still very much in development and actually failed to impress. The Porsches and Ferraris were more closely matched, showing that the emergency improvements to the 997 GT3 RSR have made a difference.
The Paul Ricard test provided some answers, but also left sufficient questions. Our full report of the test, which also doubles as a full season preview can be found here.

Catalunya 1000 km
The Le Mans Series returned to Spain for the third time for the season opener. After Jarama and Valencia, the Barcelona track now hosted the race. As soon as the cars hit the track, the gloves were off as Audi, Peugeot and also one of the RS Spyders topped the time sheets. Most impressive of all was the performance of the Aston Martin engined Lola, which was fastest of all petrol engined cars and even matched the diesel pace at times. Due to some mishaps inflicted on the top runners, the race was not quite as exciting as it could have been. Nevertheless the Catalunya 1000 km reflected the state of the series as an incredible large number of cars made it to the finish. Particular the number of LMP2 cars that ran trouble free was highly impressive.
Our full report and 160-slideshow can be found here.