2008 24 Hours of Le Mans Official Thread

[Rockefella]

I found this for quali now: mms://ulswmod015.bcst.uls.yahoo.com/slot010?StreamID=66220936&pl_auth=744b77ad02204656 fca8f4fcdedc4158&ht=30&b=4i1sgtt44172248515940&CG_ ID=1605391&s=2023392747&br=300&mid=8252169&nid=825 3766&pg=MTcwNDAwOTIwNjQ4NTAyZj&q=b8383bbd4cdb82d10 49e8c&sl=86400&so=%252Feseurosport%252Feseurosport %252Flive%252Fvideo%252FES-24hLeMansQualifyinground-110608-22h

open in VLC...

Thanks for the link, using it now.

[Dino Scuderia]

Peugeot's top speed 212mph, Audi 207mph.

[Zytek_Fan]

Audi has quite the uphill battle.

[Wouter Melissen]

It's mayhem out here with drivers really struggling to keep the cars on the black stuff.

[Zytek_Fan]

Porsche's running 1-2-3 right now in night qualifying, no doubt due to the track conditions.

[Zytek_Fan]

Lola Aston just clocked a 3:25

[Zytek_Fan]

The Saleen just did a 3:47:xx

[Zytek_Fan]

End of session 2 and all the expected front runners did well. The Saleen is definitely looking dangerous, and I wouldn't discount it for a win.

Van Merksteijn and Team Essex pretty much flip flopped positions throughout the session.

GT2 was a battle between IMSA Performance, Flying Lizard and Virgo.

[togos452]

Franck Montagny : "We can still improve... you never know what Audi is up to."

Wednesday 11 June 2008 - 23h58

# 8 Peugeot Sport Total - 908

Franck Montagny, second fastest in the first qualifying session of Wednesday says: “We can still improve”.

Frank Montagny only failed by two tenth of a second to snatch the fastet lap from Stephane Sarrazin, already poleman 2007. The new track record for the 13.629km thus still stands for the #9 Peugeot 908 Hdi FAP at nearly 247 km/h. Here is what he tells us concerning the car he will share with Ricardo Zonta and Christian Klien during the race.

“I think that the current limit for us is around 3:16, my fastest lap was not entirely clear, and we could certainly optimize the tyre configuration, but track conditions were really very good, and the car was very well balanced. You never know what Audi is up to, so we continue to work towards the race.”

! Official website of 24 Heures du Mans 2008 and 24 Heures Moto 2008 - ACO

24 Greatest Le Mans Drivers of All-Time

AUTO-RACING - LE MANS: 24 Greatest Le Mans Drivers of All-Time: 20-24 - SPEEDtv.com

AUTO-RACING - LE MANS: 24 Greatest Le Mans Drivers of All-Time: 15-19 - SPEEDtv.com

[togos452]

Driver interviews

(topic mainly concerns the Le Mans Series in Europe except for Klien

Gianmaria Bruni # 96: Virgo Motorsports - Ferrari F430 GTC - Dunlops

Planetlemans.com | Planetlemans talks to Gianmaria Bruni

FIA GT Championship - Driver Biography : Gianmaria Bruni

Vanina Ickx # 18: Rollcentre Racing - Pescarolo 01 Judd - Dunlop tires

Planetlemans.com | Planetlemans talks to Vanina Ickx

Site officiel de Vanina Ickx

Christian Klien # 9: Peugeot Sport Total - Peugeot 908 - Michelin tires

Planetlemans.com | Planetlemans talks to Christian Klien

Christian Klien

[togos452]

Costs of Racing in the 24 Hours of Le Mans

Petersen Motorsports White Lightning Racing's GT2 Porsche co-funded by Krohn Racing in 2006.

Petersen Motorsports

Translated version of http://www.endurance-info.com/article.php?sid=2196

Team Peugeot Total's resources

Translated version of http://www.endurance-info.com/article.php?sid=5824

- 3 cars in 3 stands (14-15-16)
- 9 pilots totaling 393 Grand Prix Formula 1, 32 participations in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, 15 rounds of WRC, 44 national titles or international.
- 122 people including 65 full-time employees of Team Peugeot Total
- 9,200 square metres reserved for receiving guests 4,250
- 800 beds
- 90 m²: Peugeot Sport shop in the village for the sale of derivatives (40 different articles proposed representing a total volume of 60 m3)
- 25 shuttles
- 3 boxes: 114-115-119
- 2 cars TGV
- 25,000 posters
- 20,000 postcards
- 10,000 flags
- Sending SMS every two hours of racing
- Website Peugeot live: lemans.peugeot-sport.com
- 3 newsletter distributed to 30 000 copies each
- Radio Peugeot
- Two sites: Peugeot-Media.com / Peugeot Sport Automobile
- Competition with Scalextric slot in the different structures Peugeot
- Simulators on XBOX 360 in the various structures Peugeot
- Exhibitions of 908 HDi FAP and 308 RCZ
- Martin Solveig the turntables

Also, another website - ..:: Peugeot Web TV ::.. - Le Mans Series in Monza: Peugeot second victory!

Autocon Motorsport's costs with a new # 23 Creation CA07 Judd

Autocon Motorsports - Team News

Creation CA07 with Judd V-10

Car Number: 23
Car Color: Blue
Budget for the Race: $400,000 (yes, for one race)
Cost of Le Mans Entry Fee: $53,000 (yes, also for one race!)
Gallons of Fuel Consumed: 840
Tires Consumed: 80 - Dunlops
Number of Autocon Attendees: 30
Team Motor Homes in the Paddock: 2
Gallons of Wine Consumed: To Be Announced

# 14 Creation CA07 AIM on the right

Welcome to Creation Sport

Creation CA07 with custom 90 degree V-10

[Chernaudi]

If Peugeot's Bruno Famin is correct, the race doesn't look good for the Pugs: AUTO-RACING - LE MANS: Pruett's Thursday Trackside Blog - SPEEDtv.com

Pruett says that Famin doesn't BS, and it seems due to the problems at Sebring and during Peugeot's 24 Hour test(which are probably the same that have dogged Peugeot from day one-hydralics, wheel bearings, etc.), even some of the guys at Peugeot are questioning if they'll even be around, let alone a factor, at 3:00 PM Sunday.

[RacingManiac]

well time will tell, having 6 sec in your pocket might be the difference between running at 10/10th and running at 9/10th. And if running at 9/10th can cover the Audi they might just last the 24 hours....but with Audi being able to seemingly run 10/10th over 24 hours Peugeot might have problem....

The race will be epic, thats for sure...

[togos452]

Stéphane Sarrazin gets LMP1 pole again

Motorsport.com: News channel

# 8: Peugeot Sport Total - codrivers Pedro Lamy and Alexander Wurz

# 34 Van Merksteijn Motorsport Porsche on LMP2 pole

Motorsport.com: News channel

More pictures

American Le Mans Series :: World Class

Lizard's blog

Flying Lizard at 24 Heures du Mans 2008

GT2 pole for Patrick Long in the # 76: IMSA Performance Matmut Porsche

: Patrick Long Motorsport : Pole and Lap Record at Le Mans! :

Cytosport, Pickett living the Le Mans dream

Motorsport.com: News channel

1988 winner Jan Lammers on the left with Klaus Graf and Greg Pickett



12th in LMP1 for # 12 Charouz/Cytosport Lola B07/10 with a 5.5 liter Judd V-10

Jan Lammer's website



McNISH: YOU HAVE TO BEAT LE MANS

American Le Mans Series :: World Class

4th overall for the # 2 Audi R10



Ben Devlin and Gunnar Jeannette: A Radical Pairing

in the factory # 26 Radical SR9 with a turbo'd AER I-4

Jeannette, the youngest finisher of the 24 Hours of Le Mans (2000 with a 911)

American Le Mans Series :: World Class

Radical Sportscars - Ten Years On - 1997-2007

Ben Devlin Racing Driver - MAZDASPEED and B-K MOTORSPORTS 2007



6th overall for the Charouz Lola with Aston V-12

splitting the # 3 and # 1 Audi R10 TDis

Ahead of the # 11 Dome S102 Judd and # 1 Audi



No GT1 pole for Prodrive this year - Aston Martin Racing

GT1 news

Terry Borcheller's thoughts - # 59 Team Modena DBR9

American Le Mans Series :: World Class



# 50 Larbre Saleen misses GT1 pole by one tenth

Planetlemans.com | Larbre misses pole at Le Mans by narrow margin

# 32 Zytek 07S of Barazi Epsilon to start 3rd in LMP2

Planetlemans.com | Stuart Moseley to start third at Le Mans with Barazi-Epsilon

Zytek 07S

# 45 Embassy WF01 Zytek 5th in LMP2

Embassy Racing | AUTO | 13.06.08 Qualifying goes to plan

Creation Autosportif recovering after Stuart Hall's qualfying crash

Creation Press Release

Risi reading for the big endurance race

Risi Competizione | Ferrari 430GT | American Le Mans Series

Wolf Henzler 2nd in GT2 - # 77 Team Felbermayr-Proton Porsche

Wolf Henzler: Rennautofahrer / Racecar Driver

Epsilon Euskadi update

24 H Le Mans

[faksta]

Well maybe it has already become a usual staff for me, but here is Fabio Babini, who will drive a #97 F430 today for BMS Scuderia Italia, competing in 1999 Russian F3 Championship. In 1999 he drove a Dallara F399 for Pilot F3 Racing team. The pic is taken during the 1st round of 1999 championship - May, 14-16 at Neva Ring.

Just for the info

(BTW, I wanted to upload three pics, but the system behaves strangely - it only allows to upload one of them, and when I've tried to upload them one by one it simply replaced the previous by the new one)