Even more 2012 Guides

Here is an independently written guide for the 2012 race which is pretty good.

You just can’t get enough guides for the race !

Club Arnage Guide 2012

Lots of updated guides available as we get very close to the race week.

The superb Club Arnage guide for 2012 is now available and can be downloaded here.

If you haven’t got the previous year’s guides they are all still available:

Club Arnage Guide 2011
Club Arnage Guide 2010
Club Arnage Guide 2009
Club Arnage Guide 2008
Club Arnage Guide 2007
Club Arnage Guide 2006

Happy Reading !

Spotters R Us

 

The excellent Spotter’s Guide for this year’s Le Mans has been released and is now available here.

Andy Blackmore is the man, as always, that has produced the excellent guides along with Simraceway.

So far only the HiRes version is available (which obviously I have already printed out and laminated !!) with the iPad and mobile versions available very soon.

Le Mans Guide – first of many….

You can tell I’m getting my usual pre-LM hysteria as my posts have increased to a silly amount again !

So, here’s the first Le Mans 2012 guide I will be posting – the Racecar Engineering Guide (not as tedious as it sounds).

Download it here

…..and just because  I am excited about seeing the Delta Wing this year here is a photo  of next year’s car zero – The hydrogen fuel cell Green GT Le Mans Prototype that will run as the 56th entry to the 2013 Le Mans 24 Hours.

I Can’t See A Thing !!!

A recent email from the ACO made me chuckle…..unless it’s actually an omen for the weather during the race week :o(

They have informed us that they have found an unplanned "feature" of the parking and camping passes.

The passes are printed on new style/type of thermal paper for 2012.  The "feature" is that details of the pass, including bar code react against the sun and are likely to disappear if the pass is exposed to more than 30 minutes of sunlight!!

As a result they’ve requested that the pass is not placed on the windscreen but kept in the glove box and shown when requested to avoid it going completely black and unusable.

On a more serious note (and probably based on last year’s inability to police it) the ACO have also said that “due to problems with alcohol last year, bottles within campsites are fine, but please do not take glass bottles into the General Admission area.”

It’s Test Day !

 

Less than ten days to go before we commence the annual pilgrimage to Le Sarthe for the 80th Le Mans race and as a taster today is the test day.

How cool does the grid look ?

As I write this we’ve just started the second four-hour session and hopefully it will be as exciting as the first with Audi just about having the lead from the Toyota hybrids – so close is it that there is just one second between the top six cars.

Audi had a 1-2 with the Sebastian Buemi Toyota in 3rd.

A close-up of the Delta Wing

The full entry list for the 2012 Le Mans 24 Hours:

1. Lotterer/Fassler/Treluyer     Audi Sport Team Joest    Audi R18 e-Tron Quattro LMP1 *
2. McNish/Capello/Kristensen    Audi Sport Team Joest    Audi R18 e-Tron Quattro    LMP1 *
3. Bernhard/Dumas/Duval     Audi Sport Team Joest    Audi R18 Ultra     LMP1
4. Jarvis/Bonanomi/Rockenfeller Audi Sport North America    Audi R18 Ultra LMP1
7. Wurz/Lapierre/Nakajima     Toyota Racing     Toyota TS030 HYBRID    LMP1 *
8. Davidson/Buemi/TBA     Toyota Racing     Toyota TS030 HYBRID    LMP1
12. Prost/Jani/Heidfeld     Rebellion Racing     Lola B12/60-Toyota     LMP1 *
13. Belicchi/Primat/Bleekemolen    Rebellion Racing     Lola B12/60-Toyota     LMP1 *
15. Moreau/Baguette/Kraihamer    OAK Racing     OAK Pescarolo-Judd     LMP1 *
16. Collard/Boullion/Jousse     Pescarolo Team     Pescarolo 03-Judd     LMP1 *
17. Minassian/Ara/Bourdais     Pescarolo Team     Dome-Judd     LMP1
21. Leventis/Watts/Kane     Strakka Racing     HPD ARX03a-Honda     LMP1 *
22. Brabham/Chandhok/Dumbreck    JRM     HPD ARX03a-Honda     LMP1 *

23. Tresson/Maillieux/Lombard    Signatech Nissan     Oreca 03-Nissan     LMP2 *
24. Nicolet/Lahaye/Pla     OAK Racing     Morgan-Judd     LMP2 *
25. Martin/Kerr/Graves     ADR-Delta     Oreca 03-Nissan     LMP2 *
26. Ragues/Panciatici/Rusinov    Signatech Nissan     Oreca 03-Nissan     LMP2
28. Giriox/Jousse/Johansson    Gulf Racing Middle East    Lola B12/80-Nissan LMP2 *
29. Ihara/Deletraz/Quick     Gulf Racing Middle East    Lola B12/80-Nissan     LMP2 *
30. Sims/Buurman/Iannetta     Status Grand Prix     Lola-Judd     LMP2
31. Holzer/Schultis/Moro     Lotus     Lola B12/80-Lotus     LMP2 *
33. Tucker/Bouchut/Diaz     Level 5 Motorsports     HPD ARX03b-Honda     LMP2
35. Heinemeier Hansson/Leinders/Martin OAK Racing     Morgan-Nissan     LMP2
38. Hancock/Dolan/Kurosawa    JOTA     Zytek Z11SN-Nissan     LMP2
40. Frey/Meichtry/Hirschi     Race Performance     Oreca 03-Judd     LMP2
41. Zugel/Julian/Gonzalez     Greaves Motorsport     Zytek Z11SN-Nissan     LMP2 *
42. Brundle/Brundle/Ordonez    Greaves Motorsport     Zytek Z11SN-Nissan     LMP2
43. Rosier/Thirion/Haezebrouck    Extreme Limite ARIC     Norma MP200-Judd LMP2
44. Potolicchio/Dalziel/Sarrazin    Starworks Motorsport     HPD ARX03b-Honda LMP2 *
45. Briere/Petersen/Nakano     Boutsen Ginion Racing    Oreca 03-Nissan     LMP2
46. Thiriet/Beche/Tinseau     Thiriest by TDS Racing    Oreca 03-Nissan     LMP2
48. Firth/Hartley/Hughes     Murphy Prototypes     Oreca 03-Nissan     LMP2
49. Perez-Companc/Kaffer/Ayari    Pecom Racing     Oreca 03-Nissan     LMP2 *

51. Fisichella/Bruni/Vilander     AF Corse     Ferrari 458 Italia     GTE-Pro *
59. Makowiecki/Melo/Farnbacher    Luxury Racing     Ferrari 458 Italia     GTE-Pro *
66. Cocker/Walker/Wills     JMW Motorsport     Ferrari 458 Italia     GTE-Pro
71. Fisichella/Bruni/Vilander     AF Corse     Ferrari 458 Italia     GTE-Pro *
73. Garcia/Magnussen/Taylor    Corvette Racing     Chevrolet Corvette C6    GTE-Pro
74. Gavin/Milner/Westbrook     Corvette Racing     Chevrolet Corvette C6    GTE-Pro
77. Lietz/Lieb/Henzler     Felbermayr-Proton     Porsche 997 RSR     GTE-Pro *
80. Bergmeister/Long/Holzer     Flying Lizard Motorsports    Porsche 997 RSR     GTE-Pro
97. Mucke/Turner/Fernandez     Aston Martin Racing     Aston Martin Vantage V8 GTE-Pro *

50. Bornhauser/Canal/Lamy     Larbre Competition     Chevrolet Corvette C6    GTE-Am *
55. Daniels/Palttala/Camathias    JWA Avila     Porsche 997 RSR     GTE-Am *
57. Krohn/Jonsson/Rugolo     Krohn Racing     Ferrari 458 Italia     GTE-Am *
58. Ehret/Montecalvo/Jeannette    Luxury Racing     Ferrari 458 Italia     GTE-Am *
61. Kauffman/Aguas/Vickers    AF Corse-Waltrip     Ferrari 458 Italia     GTE-Am *
67. Pons/Narac/Armindo     IMSA Performance Matmut    Porsche 997 RSR     GTE-Am
70. Bourret/Gibon/Belloc     Larbre Competition     Chevrolet Corvette C6    GTE-Am *
75. Alfaisal/Curtis/Edwards     Prospeed Competition     Porsche 997 RSR     GTE-Am
79. Neiman/Law/Pumpelly     Flying Lizard Motorsports    Porsche 997 RSR     GTE-Am
81. Perazzini/Griffin/Cadei     AF Corse     Ferrari 458 Italia     GTE-Am
83. Rodrigues/Illiano/Ferte     JMB Racing     Ferrari 458 Italia     GTE-Am
88. Ried/Roda/Ruberti     Felbermayr-Proton     Porsche 997 RSR     GTE-Am *
99. Nygaard/Poulsen/Simonsen    Aston Martin Racing     Aston Martin Vantage V8    GTE-Am

0. Franchitti/Krumm/Motoyama    Highcroft Racing     DeltaWing Nissan     New Tech

* denotes World Endurance Championship entrant

Fancy a Thai?

So……the 25th Race of Champions will be in December (on a date yet to be decided) at Bangkok’s Rajamangala Stadium.

 

I suppose it had to happen that the race would drift away from Europe again – although to be honest I was banking on somewhere like Dubai…..

The big question is are any of you guys interested in going ?  Maybe it will be too far for our mate Terry to go so we’ll have an irritant free weekend?  Having said that – when it was at the ‘Bird’s Nest’ Olympic stadium it was actually mid week….

If there are any takers I would certainly consider the trip……over to you, boys !