Le Mans Series.

[rikardo]

9th - 11th September (race-day being Sunday 11th September) will see the premier Sportscar series return to Silverstone for the 6 hours/1000 klms race.
I also see that several cars that have competed at this event from 1976 to the present will be in attendance.

http://www.lemans-series.com/en/s01_home/s01p01_home.php

[peterbaker]

Perhaps even better is the one hour endurance race on Saturday for classic sports cars. My magazine will be in attendance to report.

[rikardo]

For those not going, try here

http://www.audi-microsites.com/lemans/#/onboard

and here

http://www.peugeot-sport.com/en/home.html

[rikardo]

Silverstone Qualifying Results.

LMP1 - Peugeot 908 (7) - Simon Pagenaud - 1:43.924 (pole)

LMP2 - HPD ARX 01d (42) - Danny Watts - 1:49.619

FLM - FLM Oreca 09 (92) - Phil Keen - 1:58.043

LM GTE Pro - BMW M3 (55) - Augusto Farfus - 2:01.768

LM GTE Am - Porsche 911RSR (67) - Nicolas Armindo - 2:04.028

[peterbaker]

Images from qualifying plus the Classic endurance Race results and images at www.retro-speed.co.uk

[rikardo]

If you didn't watch or go (there was of course AutoItalia at Gaydon up the road), then you may be heartened to know that an Italian car and team won their class and this year's GTE Pro Class Championship, namely the number 51 Ferrari F458 Italia of AF Corse driven by Giancarlo Fisichella (yes indeed) and Gianmaria Bruni. They received a rousing cheer when accepting their trophy on the podium.
Full details of the race results at the Le Mans Series web-site link.

I did enjoy the variety of exhaust notes from the varied engine configurations. And boy were some of them loud! Fabulous! Except the diesels of course, which were almost silent in comparison.

[rikardo]

The final round of this year's championship was held yesterday (Sunday 25th September) at Estoril, Portugal.
As there were no Audis or Peugeots (see below), there was no live streaming.
Here is a brief report from the web-site.

http://www.lemans-series.com/en/s03_actualites/s03p02_detail_actualite.php?news=2021

This Saturday (1st October) sees the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup and the American Le Mans Series together at Petit Le Mans, Road Atlanta, USA.
Expect plenty of live streaming from various sources, as both Audi and Peugeot are entered.