Sportscars Race Reports

ASM boss Adam Sharpe has emerged as a key player in the development of a new alternative fuel project aimed at top level sportscar racing, after helping to establish groupBIO with former Taurus Sports boss Ian Dawson.

American Le Mans Series LMP1 Champions and winners of this year's Le Mans 24 Hours Team ADT Champion Racing, have been awarded the first Automobile Club de France Ecology Trophy by the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) and the Automobile Club de France.

Sam Hancock produced a stunning display in difficult conditions as he made his debut in the LMP1 class of the Le Mans Endurance Series during the season finale in Istanbul.

Full race result for the 1000km of the Istanbul - the fifth and final round of the Le Mans Endurance Series.

Full qualifying times for the 1000km of the Istanbul - round five of the Le Mans Endurance Series.

The Convers Team has won the Nurburgring 1000kms, the fourth race of the Le Mans Endurance Series. The win, by Darren Turner and Robert Bell in the Aston Martin DBR9, is the Russian team's first in the series and a valuable one in terms of the teams' and drivers' standings.

Their qualifying time may have been excluded for a stall test infringement, meaning a start from the back of the grid, but that didn't stop the Zytek 04S of Hayanari Shimoda and Tom Chilton from working its way from the back to the race lead to take victory in Germany for the Nurburgring 1000km r

With everything still very much to play for in the GT2 class of the Le Mans Endurance Series, the Scuderia Ecosse team will head to Germany for the latest round of the series this weekend eager to secure a strong result to keep its title hopes alive.

Leading British GT outfit Team LNT is to bring the American Le Mans Series race winning Panoz Esperante GTLM to Europe for the 2006 season.

Having failed to start the last round of the Le Mans Endurance Series following engine problems at Monza, Team LNT driver Patrick Pearce was unlucky to miss out on a strong finish in his home round at Silverstone despite a strong drive in treacherous conditions.

Full results of the Silverstone 1000km.

Having made a highly successful debut overseas, the new Lola LMP2 sportscar makes its home debut at the weekend as the Le Mans Endurance Series reaches Silverstone for the third round of the five race championship.

Full race result from Monza for the second round of the Le Mans Endurance Series, the Monza 1000kms.

British racing driver Christian Vann, this weekend driving for Courage Competition at the Monza 1000km, was a happy chap after qualifying on Saturday when the Courage team qualified in fifth place.

Various rumours have been doing the rounds following the demise of the #17 Pescarolo-Judd at Le Mans, to the point that the team decided to investigate exactly what caused the incident that saw Soheil Ayari run out of road on the Mulsanne.

Champion Racing team owner Dave Maraj saw twelve years of hard work reach its highest pinnacle yet when Tom Kristensen brought his #3 Audi R8 across the finishing line to win the 73rd Le Mans 24 Hours.

Gulf returned to Le Mans for what was to be one of the hottest and most incident-packed 24 Hours of recent times, but the famous powder blue-and-orange colours came away with two podium finishes and another top ten result.

Corvette Racing's top brass are calling the 73rd Le Mans 24 Hours their best win yet after the Pratt & Miller team overcame the challenge of the factory Aston Martin team to record a wholly unexpected 1-2 finish in the GT1 class.

Complete unofficial results from the 73rd Le Mans 24 Hours.

With the first six hours of the 24 Hours of Le Mans completed, the battle between Corvette and Aston Martin is living up to its billing.

The #64 Chevrolet Corvette, one of the front-runners in the GT1 class at Le Mans, has suffered a second rear left tyre failure with its Michelin rubber as the Le Mans 24 Hours approached the two and a half hour mark.

One Pestarolo prototype went to the top of the timesheets and one went down the order following a penalty after Thursday's first qualifying session at the world famous Le Mans circuit in France.

Among the dozens of mechanics, engineers, technicians and drivers who make up Corvette Racing, Melanie Correll stands out.

This weekend the eyes of the motorsport world will be firmly fixed on France for the 73rd running of the most famous endurance race of them all - the Le Mans 24 Hours.