Sportscars Race Reports

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.

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.

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.

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.

The ACO has announced a list of 18 teams that have accepted entries into the Le Mans 24 Hours in June - with two high profile teams having not taken up their automatic slots for the famous endurance event.

Reigning Le Mans Series LMP2 champion Barazi-Epsilon has decided to defend its titles with the all-new Zytek 07S, the British manufacturer has revealed.

Team Modena finished its maiden Le Mans Series season with a third place finish in the GT1 class at Jarama - a result that saw Antonio Garcia take second place in the drivers' championship.

RML have finally secured their first win of the 2006 Le Mans Series season after Tommy Erdos and Mike Newton took advantage of late misfortune for the Rollcentre Radical team to secure the LMP2 class victory.

Pescarolo Sport have claimed the 2006 Le Mans Series title after Emmanuel Collard, Jean-Christophe Boullion and Didier Andre took the flag at Donington Park to make it four wins from four this season.

Full results of the fourth round of the Le Mans Series at Donington Park.

Ben Devlin is to join the Bruichladdich Radical team for the latest round of the Le Mans Series at Donington Park, while former WRC title winner Colin McRae will be a guest of the team and will race in the supporting Radical World Cup.

The ACO has announced that it will examine the performance of diesel engines at Le Mans to ensure that all teams are on a level playing field for the 2007 Le Mans 24 Hours.

After working alongside the Creation Autosportif team to develop the current CA06/H, KW Motorsport has announced plans to a build a coupe LMP1 prototype for the 2007 season.

The Team Modena Aston Martin DBR9 survived all that was thrown at it through the Le Mans 24 Hours to claim fourth in class and eighth overall on its debut appearance at the French classic.

British teenager and Le Mans rookie Ed Morris has spoken of a Le Mans 24 Hours that promised so much but delivered so little for him and his hard-trying G Force team.

Overall classification of the 2006 Le Mans 24 Hours after 24 hours. Overall

Lawrence Tomlinson's Team LNT Panoz outfit could be on the verge of a historic GT2 class victory after mechanical problems stranded the class leading Seikel Porsche out on the track with just 90 minutes of the Le Mans 24 Hours remaining.

Audi's eerily quiet diesel-powered R10 has made history by becoming the first non-petrol powered car to win the world famous 24 Heures du Mans with a faultless run by the #8 R10 in its debut at the French classic with Frank Biela, Emanuele Pirro and Marco Werner scoring the emotional victory in f

The Russian Age Racing #61 Ferrari 550 Maranello, with the all British driver line-up of Nigel Smith, Tim Sugden and Christian Vann, was retired from the Le Mans 24 Hours in the ninth hour after a bizarre accident caused the engine to overheat.

Just three and a half hours into the 2006 Le Mans 24 Hours and Tom Kristensen's bid for a seventh consecutive victory in the classic La Sarthe race could be over after his #7 Audi suffered a mysterious cut out problem.