Sportscars Race Reports

The Barron Connor Racing team has signed Italian Thomas Biagi to race in the Le Mans 24 hours, the Sebring 12 Hours, and the Le Mans Endurance Series, partnering John Bosch and Danny Sullivan in one of team's two Ferrari's 575 GTC.

Barron Connor Racing tested the first of their two Ferrari's 575 GTC at Ferrari's own test track in Italy last Tuesday. Both John Bosch and Danny Sullivan drove the new car at the Pista di Fiorano next to the Ferrari factory in Maranello.

Rollcentre Racing boss, Martin Short has revealed that the team have purchased two 2002 ORECA Dallaras for 2004, and that they will enter the new Le Mans Endurance series [LMES], in conjunction with the Sebring 12 hours and the Le Mans 24 hours, the latter subject to being granted approval.

Veloqx Motorsport has confirmed that it will representing Audi UK in next year's Le Mans 24 Hours, as well as the inaugural Le Mans Endurance Series, having been granted customer support by the German marque to run an R8 prototype.

The collaboration between Veloqx Motorsport and Care Racing, using cars built and developed by Prodrive, paid off handsomely once again as the two Ferrari 550 Maranellos run by the Veloqx Care Racing team finished first and second in the GTS category - and fifth and sixth overall - in the six-hou

1. Audi Sport Japan Team Goh Audi R8 Ara/Kristensen LMP900 208 laps 2. Pescarolo Sport Courage-Peugeot Lagorce/Sarrazin/Bourdais LMP900 205

The sound of the Elan Power Products V8 may have had a familiar ring, but sportscar fans this week have been treated to the sight of the Panoz 'Batmobile' for the first time since 1998.

JML Team Panoz will go "back to the future" at the forthcoming Le Mans 1000km on November 9 by entering one of the original Panoz GTR1 roadsters which first competed in the 24 hour in 1997.

Team Bentley and Bentley Motors are delighted to confirm that examples of their Le Mans winning Speed 8 prototype and new Continental GT will be in action at the annual Bentley Drivers Club meeting at Silverstone on Saturday, August 30th.

Bentley Motors has confirmed that both its triumphant Speed 8 Le Mans prototypes will be seen in action at the Goodwood Festival of Speed next weekend [11-13 July], giving British fans unable to travel to La Sarthe a first chance to see the cars.

Bentley boy Mark Blundell finished a fantastic second at the Le Mans 24 Hours two weeks ago, driving the number eight car, with David Brabham and Johnny Herbert, here the Brit reflects on that race, the team's one-two result, thrashing the Audis and much, much more...

Sunday was an historic day for Bentley and Le Mans, as the famous British marque finally retook the 24 Hours title for the first time since 1930, and, although he was not part of the winning crew, honorary Brit David Brabham was able to reflect on the event and what success meant to the team.

Beating the highly-fancied Chevrolet Corvettes and racking up a first class victory at Le Mans for the Ferrari 550 Maranello was a major achievement for the fledgling Veloqx Prodrive combination - and the enormity of the success is still registering on the men behind the scenes who made it possib

Graham Nash Motorsport's No.64 Saleen S7-R, driven by an all FIA GT line-up of Erdos, Newton and Chaves, suffered a double blow after running strongly for 5 minutes shy of 23 hours in the GTS class at this year's Le Mans 24 Hour race.

The Le Mans 24 hour is one of the grueling on the world motorsport calendar, but this past weekend MG XPOWER lasted the distance to take the Durango team to the chequered flag in the French classic.

Oliver Gavin, Kelly Collins and Andy Pilgrim brought their #50 Corvette C5-R into second in the GTS Class and 11th overall at the 2003 Le Mans 24 Hours, the greatest sportscar race in the World.

Anthony Davidson's first Le Mans 24 Hours ended prematurely when he suffered a big accident at the Mulsanne corner during the darkness hours of the endurance classic.

JML Team Panoz may have held their positions of sixth and ninth through to the halfway point of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, but Olivier Beretta was lucky to escape after suffering a major night-time incident at more than 300kph.

Anthony Davidson is currently en route to the Le Mans circuit medical centre following a heavy impact with the barriers at the end of the Mulsanne straight.

The ACEMCO Motorsport Ferrari 360 Modena has retired from the Le Mans 24 Hours after ten-and-a-half hours and a spell at the front of the closely-contested.GT class.

Unofficial results from the 71st running of the Le Mans 24 Hours.

The Ferrari 550 Maranello GTS of Luc Alphand Aventures/Solution F has enjoyed a solid start to its Le Mans campaign, and the Care Racing-owned car has run steadily in the top three for most of the opening quarter of the round-the-clock event.

Despite a very promising second qualifying session and a good warm up, the gorgeous, but very new Pagani Zonda GR retired from the Le Mans 24 Hours after only 11 laps, the team's second early exit in two major 2003 endurances.

The 71st running of the 24 Heures du Mans began under sunny French skies at almost exactly 4pm local time with Bentley boys Rinaldo Capello and Johnny Herbert providing a memorable first lap demonstration run in the two dark green Speed 8's.