LMS Full-Season Entry List Released

[Zytek_Fan]

The season-long entry list to the 2006 Le Mans Series has been announced. In total, 48 cars are expected to enter each of the five rounds, starting at Istanbul in early April. However, only 46 cars are able to participate at the Donington round, due to limited pit space. Therefore, a selection will be made in the GT2 entrants to shrink the grid to 46 for that round. The selection will come after the Nurburgring round.


Notable entrants include a privateer Courage LC70 for Swiss Sport. Larbre Competition will campaign an Aston Martin DBR9 in the GT1 category. ORECA also intends to race their Saleen S7R in all five Le Mans Series events. Three Corvettes will be present: two C5-Rs each from PSI and Luc Alphand and one C6.R from PSI. A number of GT2 entrants have also signed up; some of which will not be able to participate in the Donington weekend as stated above.

Entry List:

LM P1
5 SWISS SPIRIT - Courage LC70-Judd - Harold Primat/TBA/TBA
6 LISTER STORM RACING - Lister Storm Hybrid - Andrea Belicchi/Stefano Zonca/Jens Moller
9 CREATION AUTOSPORTIF - Creation-Judd - Nicolas Minassian/Jamie Campbell-Walter/TBA
10 CREATION AUTOSPORTIF - Creation-Judd - Felipe Ortiz/Beppe Gabbiani/TBA
12 COURAGE COMPETITION - Courage LC70-Mugen - TBA/TBA/TBA
13 COURAGE COMPETITION - Courage LC70-Mugen - TBA/TBA/TBA
17 PESCAROLO SPORT - Pescarolo C60-Judd - TBA/TBA/TBA
19 CHAMBERLAIN SYNERGY - Lola-AER - Bob Berridge/Gareth Evans/Peter Owen

LM P2
20 PIERRE BRUNEAU - Pilbeam-Judd - Marc Rostan/Pierre Bruneau/TBA
21 BRUICHLADDICH RADICAL - Radical SR9 C6-T - Tim Greaves/Stuart Mosley/TBA
22 ROLLCENTRE RACING - Radical SR9-Judd - Martin Short/TBA/TBA
23 ROLLCENTRE RACING - Radical SR9-Judd - TBA/TBA/TBA
24 BINNIE MOTORSPORTS - Lola 05/42-Zytek - Bill Binnie/Allen Timpany/TBA
25 RML - MG Lola EX 264 - Mike Newton/Tommy Erdos/TBA
28 RANDACCIO RANIERI - Lucchini - Ranieri Randaccio/Fabio Mancini/TBA
32 BARAZI - EPSILON - Courage C65-AER - Michael Vergers/Juan Barazi/TBA
35 G-FORCE - Courage C65-Judd - Ed Morris/Jean-François Leroch/Frank Hahn
36 PAUL BELMONDO RACING - Courage C65-Ford - Claude-Yves Gosselin/Karim Ojjeh/Pierre Ragues
37 PAUL BELMONDO RACING - Courage C65-Ford - Paul Belmondo/Didier André/Yann Clairay
39 CHAMBERLAIN SYNERGY - Lola-AER - Miguel Amaral/Pedro Chaves/TBA

LM GT1
50 LARBRE COMPETITION - Aston Martin DBR 9 - TBA/TBA/TBA
51 B-RACING RS LINE TEAM - Lamborghini Murcielago - Norbert Walchhofer/Philipp Peter/TBA
55 TEAM ORECA - Saleen S7-R - TBA TBA TBA
61 RUSSIAN AGE RACING - Aston Martin DBR 9 - Nikolay Fomenko/TBA/TBA
62 RUSSIAN AGE RACING - Ferrari 550 Maranello - TBA/TBA/TBA
67 CONVERS MENX TEAM - Ferrari 550 Maranello - Peter Kox/Robert Pergl/Alexei Vasiliev
70 PSI EXPERIENCE - Corvette C6-R - Kuismanen/Jos Menten/Markus Palttala
71 PSI EXPERIENCE - Corvette C5-R - TBA/TBA/TBA
72 LUC ALPHAND - Corvette C5-R - Jérôme Policand/Patrice Goueslard/David Hallyday

LM GT2
73 ICE POL RACING TEAM - Porsche 996 GT3 RSR - Yves Lambert/Christian Lefort/TBA
74 ESTORIL RACING* - Porsche 996 GT3 RSR Manuel Monteiro/Michel Monteiro/Claude Monteiro
75 THIERRY PERRIER - Porsche 996 GT3 RSR - Nigel Smith/Philippe Hesnault/TBA
76 AUTORLANDO SPORT - Porsche 996 GT3 RSR - Marc Lieb/Joel Camathias/TBA
77 SEIKEL MOTORSPORT* - Porsche 996 GT3 RSR - Tony Burgess/Philip Collin/TBA
78 AUTORLANDO SPORT* - Porsche 996 GT3 RSR - Gunnar Kristensen/Carsten Leveau/TBA
80 FARNBACHER RACING - Porsche 996 GT3 RSR - Lars Erik Nielsen/TBA/TBA
81 TEAM LNT - Panoz Esperante - Warren Hughes/Richard Dean/TBA
82 TEAM LNT - Panoz Esperante - Lawrence Tomlinson/Robert Bell/TBA
84 TEAM ICER BRAKES - Ferrari 430 GT - Jesus Diez Villarroel/Tomas Saldana/Javier Macias
85 SPYKER SQUADRON - Spyker C8 Spyder GT2R - Jeroen Bleekemolen/Mike Hezemans/TBA
86 SPYKER SQUADRON - Spyker C8 Spyder GT2R - Donny Crevels/TBA/TBA
90 FARNBACHER RACING* - Porsche 996 GT3 RSR - Pierre Ehret/Dominik Farnbacher/TBA
91 T2M MOTORSPORT* - Porsche 996 GT3 RS - TBA/TBA/TBA
92 IMSA PERFORMANCE MATMUT - Porsche 996 RSR - Sébastien Dumez/Raymond Narac/TBA
95 RACESPORT PENINSULA - TVR Tuscan T 400 R - Richard Stanton/John Hartshorne/Ian Dockerill
97 GPC SPORT - Ferrari 430 GT - Luca Drudi/Gabrio Rosa/TBA
98 DEL BELLO NOEL* - Porsche 996 GT3 RSR - Tinseau/ Iannetta/Maury-Laribière
99 VIRGO MOTORSPORT - Ferrari 430 GT - Dan Eagling/TBA/TBA

* Cars whose entry for the Donington round is subject to selection after the 1000km of the Nürburgring.

[Zytek_Fan]

Something worth noting is BMS Scuderia Italia is not on the list

[carsnut]

im interested to see the murcielago and 430 GT. odd the Audi R8 isn't there

[Zytek_Fan]

im interested to see the murcielago and 430 GT. odd the Audi R8 isn't there

The Audi R8 can't race this year in ACO sanctioned races. The R10 could appear at some races this year.

[NuclearCrap]

Where's my sweet little RS Spyder? I fell in love with it since Laguna Seca.

[Zytek_Fan]

Where's my sweet little RS Spyder? I fell in love with it since Laguna Seca.

Like I said in the Le Mans thread, Penske Racing doesn't want to commit to racing in Europe until after winning in 2006 ALMS.

[RacingManiac]

More to the point, 2006 will be a development year for the RS Spyder, running exclusively by the factory backed Penske racing. But I believe their goal is eventually sell the car(like every other Porsche racer) to all the privateer who wants to run it, and hopefully replicate what they do to the GT3 cars....

I can see at that point though the factory will move into LMP1....

[Zytek_Fan]

More to the point, 2006 will be a development year for the RS Spyder, running exclusively by the factory backed Penske racing. But I believe their goal is eventually sell the car(like every other Porsche racer) to all the privateer who wants to run it, and hopefully replicate what they do to the GT3 cars....

I can see at that point though the factory will move into LMP1....

Back in 1999, Porsche made a deal with Audi to stay out of LMP1.

[RacingManiac]

Thats 1999, this is now....Porsche will not stay content in building a car that can't win overall in Prototype class(not to say RS Spyder can't it seems to be doing quite well pace wise...). The fact that Porsche now owns stakes in VAG will mean that they don't have to listen to Audi/VW....And who's to say Audi will still be racing in 2008/2009....