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The 2009 Le Mans Series starts on 5th April at the Circuit de Catalunya, Spain

Races
1 5 Apr Catalunya
2 10 May Spa-Francorchamps
3 2 Aug Algarve
4 23 Aug Nurburgring
5 13 Sep Silverstone

Test Day 23 Apr Le Mans

Roll of Honour

LMP1
2004 - Johnny Herbert/Jamie Davies
2005 - Jean-Christophe Boullion/Emmanuel Collard
2006 - Jean-Christophe Boullion/Emmanuel Collard
2007 - Stephane Sarrizan/Pedro Lamy
2008 - Alexandre Premat/Mike Rockenfeller

LMP2
2004 - Alexander Frei/Sam Hancock
2005 - Gareth Evans
2006 - Juan Barazi/Michael Vergers
2007 - Mike Newton/Tommy Erdos
2008 - Jos Verstappen

GT1
2004 - Pedro Lamy/Christophe Bouchut/Steve Zacchia
2005 - Michele Bartyan/Christian Pescatori/Toni Seiler
2006 - Pedro Lamy/Gabriel Gardel/Vincent Vosse
2007 - Soheil Ayari/Stephane Ortelli
2008 - Guillaume Moreau/Patrice Goueslard

GT2
2004 - Roman Rusinov
2005 - Xavier Pompidou/Marc Lieb
2006 - Marc Lieb/Joel Camathias
2007 - Rob Bell
2008 - Rob Bell

cant wait

the diesels have been restricted this year - hopefully more close racing between petrols and diesels and maybe we might see pescarolo on the rostrum again

I just hope they don't use the shortened rear wings, they look really stupid

Does anyone know if Formula Le Mans will be broadcasted on television?

Rumours going of Charouz being powered by Audi, but I believe it's already posted in some thread.

Anyway, line-up from the LMP1 Lola-Aston Martin and the LMP2 Lola from Speedy Racing-Sebah:
LMP1 => Andrea Belicchi/Marcel Fässler/Nicolas Prost
LMP2 => Xavier Pompidou/Jonny Kane/Benjamin Leuenberger

Pegasus with a Courage-Oreca LC75 LMP2 for Caussanel and Schell (VdeV class champions)

They will Now with the economic downturn and all, this change has become even more idiotic. There would have been plenty of time to cancel it.

IMSA cancelled the rear wing for LMP2, they can choose old wings w/ ballast or new wings.

Gonna be crap season. Last season produced barely interesting races and now Audi gone and very little interest for Peugeot to be there... at least I'm not interested about privateer championship.

This is a test btw, on the Bugatti track.

Hmm, Forix (where I copied the list from) have it down as a race. I'll change it for now but maybe they know something we don't

I know that, but they could've changed it to another race for some reason, and they haven't announced it publically. I believe it has happened before that calendar changes have been shown on Forix before everyone else knows

Leo Mansell will partner Antonio Garcia at Team Modena this season

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/72809

Video (English) from Petter Solberg's Oreca test:

http://nettitv.mtv3.fi/uutiset/index.sh ... 293#156293

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/73156

According to Norwegian magazine Solberg was 1,4 secs slower than Olivier Panis.

Solberg and Muller are close to a seat in Le Mans, especially Petter

Only for Le Mans our for the whole series?

the Lola Aston Martin of Charouz/Enge/Mucke win the first race in Spain

a few screenshots of the start

Stefan Mücke

Are there any race replays for this race? I missed it.

Anyone knows if Peugeot are giving away free tickets again for the Spa race? Last year you could order free tickets in Peugeot dealerships.

It's a shame they charge 35€ for the pitwalk again. You are forced through the pitlane from exit to entry like kettle. Not worth a single penny. They already did this at the Nurburgring where the price was 50€
In 2007 it was included in the general entry ticket which was sold at a resonable price of 20-30€ for the weekend - at least general admission is still cheap