Posted in American Le Mans Series on Jun 15th, 2007 No Comments »
That is more dramatic than mentioning that the new Peugeot diesels proved fastest in the pre-race trials. This should provide some drama to what has threatened to become a perpetual Ingolstadt Teutonic walkover. Of course, reliability is likely to be the big issue.
Also, while Corvettes have driven out all other competitors in the US races, […]
Posted in American Le Mans Series on Apr 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
The organizers managed to create a fairly wide but extremely short course around their sports complex, but that width benefit was negated by some tight turns. These were to the detriment of the series main drawing card, the all conquering Audis, now with extremely effiecient diesel engines.
Timo Bernhard gave the LMP2 Penske Porsches a hard-earned […]
Posted in American Le Mans Series on Apr 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
Images from the 2007 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach American Le Mans Race.
Posted in American Le Mans Series on Apr 17th, 2007 No Comments »
LeMans.
Long Beach.
Who ever thought these different worlds could ever come together?
Well, the poor folks running the American LeMans Series somehow hoped that their cars, conceived with eight mile straightaways and wide open sweeping turns named after places like Indianapolis, could somehow reasonably exist on the tight chicanes and narrow hairpins of the streets of Long […]
Posted in American Le Mans Series on Apr 15th, 2007 No Comments »
The Audi R10s find themselves flusterred and well behind the Penske Porsches on the streets of Long Beach, CA.
Posted in American Le Mans Series, NHRA on Apr 4th, 2007 No Comments »
Once round the clock races at Spa, Monza and especially LeMans were the proving grounds and advertising fodder for companies like Jaguar, Mercedes and Ferrari, and later upstarts Porsche and Ford made their bones in 24 hour events. There always has been two class breakdowns: one for modified production cars (GT) and the other for […]
Posted in Formula One, American Le Mans Series, NASCAR on Mar 18th, 2007 1 Comment »
What a weekend for racing! ALMS at Sebring, FL, Formula 1 in Australia and NASCAR wall-to-wall all weekend in Atlanta.
The American Le Mans Series is sports car racing (ostensibly two-seaters) and patterns itself on the riules used for the famous 24 hour race in Le Mans, France. They run two major types of cars, Le […]
Posted in American Le Mans Series on Mar 18th, 2007 No Comments »
Again, once a province of technical innovation and original thinking, the schism between organizers has similar cars with different paint jobs that run in one series, and one brand dominating the other. Penske chose to align with Porsche for the second tier support class at Sebring, but Roger was humbled when an Acura effort in […]