Sportscars News

Sixteen year old Max Chilton is to make his Le Mans Series debut alongside his brother Tom in the latest round of the championship at Silverstone.

Darren Turner is to return to the Team Modena line-up for the second time this season at Silverstone as he aims to help the team to success in its home round of the Le Mans Series next month.

Team Modena secured a podium finish on the resumption of racing in the Le Mans Series, with Antonio Garcia and Christian Fittipaldi taking second in the GT1 class at the Nurburgring.

Although unable to match the top ten result collected in 2006, Team Modena was given reason to smile at Le Mans after the British outfit was chosen by the Auto Club de L'Ouest as recipients of the Prix Escra for the best technical performance of any team at this year's race.

The official running order of the 2007 Le Mans 24 Hours as the race passes the halfway mark at 2am local time.

The race leading Audi of Dindo Capello, Allan McNish and Tom Kristensen has hit trouble at Le Mans after losing a wheel and going off into the tyre wall.

The 75th running of the Le Mans 24 Hours will feature 54 cars after the JLOC Isao Noritake team was given permission to compete in the event.

The Safety Car is back on track at Le Mans with Mike Rockenfeller having gone off heavily in the #3 Audi R10 an hour and a half into the race.

Team Modena is fighting back in the Le Mans 24 Hours after losing time following a failed suspension damper that dropped the #59 Aston Martin DBR9 out of the battle for the top three places.

Marco Apicella has escaped serious injury in his high-speed accident during qualifying for the Le Mans 24 Hours - although the same cannot be said for the JLOC Isao Noritake Lamborghini he was driving at the time.

The opening qualifying session for the Le Mans 24 Hours has been red flagged following a huge accident involving the JLOC Isao Noritake Lamborghini Murcielago.

Audi's decision to rest Tom Kristensen from DTM duty while he recovered from his round one accident at Hockenheim appears to have paid dividends as the Dane has been given the go-ahead to race at Le Mans.

Harold Primat and Christophe Tinseau produced a stirring comeback drive to notch up a top six finishing position in the 1,000kms of Valencia last weekend - and maintain the pressure on championship leaders Peugeot.

Having driven for the team in the Le Mans Series last season, Rob Bell is to rejoin Team LNT for the 2007 Le Mans 24 Hours - marking the first time that the 27-year-old will have competed in the famous French classic.

The Swiss Spirit team has completed the first test of its new Audi powered Lola B07/10 after spending a successful day with the machine at Silverstone.

Antonio Garcia and Liz Halliday battled with an ill-handling car to secure a fourth place finish for Team Modena in the GT1 class as the 2007 Le Mans Series season kicked off at Monza.

Team LNT has confirmed that Danny Watts is to partner Tom Kimber-Smith for the 2007 Le Mans Series season.

Somewhat earlier than expected, the ACO has revealed the full list of competitors for the 2007 running of the Le Mans 24 Hours, which will feature 55 cars going for glory in the round the clock classic at La Sarthe.

After several frustrating attempts to break into the US open-wheel scene, former Euro F3000 champion Norbert Siedler has turned his full-time attention to sportscars, signing with Cologne-based Kruse Motorsport for this year's Le Mans Series.

Melchester Racing and Radical Motorsport have revealed that they are to work together over the next few seasons to develop the latter's SR9 prototype in both LMP classes of the Le Mans Series.

James Watt Automotive has confirmed that it will campaign a new Porsche 997 GT3 RSR for the 2007 Le Mans Series season.

Reigning British GT3 champion Leo Machitski made the step up to GT1 when he tested Barwell Motorsport's Aston Martin DBR9 at Guadix circuit in Spain in preparation for a possible step up in 2007.

Martin Short has stated that his Rollcentre Racing needed to return to the LMP1 category of sportscar racing in 2007, although he admitted to being disappointed not to get the most of his Radical LMP2 programme.

The Swiss Spirit team has announced that it will switch to a new car for the 2007 Le Mans Series and Le Mans 24 Hours in the shape of a Lola B07/10 powered by an Audi engine.