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unusual facts about Le Mans Series



Gary Chalandon

In 2010, the Formula Le Mans Cup was incorporated into the Le Mans Series, and Chalandon joined DAMS, partnering Andrea Barlesi and Alessandro Cicognani.

Gregor Fisken

2007 saw Fisken race for the complete year in the Le Mans Series for Larbre Competition in the Aston Martin DBR9 with a best result being 1st in class in the Mille Milhas, Interlagos, Brazil.

IMSA Performance

Le Mans Series was once again average, finishing fifth in the standings although they did win the Michelin GreenX Challenge for having the most fuel-efficient GT class car.

Johnny Mowlem

In 2007 Mowlem continued his strong association with Ferrari, racing a 430 in the GT2 class for the Pirelli factory GPC Ferrari team in the Le Mans Series as well as the International GT Open championship.

Peter Bamford

Since 2006 he has competed in major championships including the Ferrari Challenge, British GT Championship, Le Mans Series and International GT Open.


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2009 American Le Mans Series at Long Beach

Fernández Racing Acura also won the LMP2 category for their third straight race while the #4 Chevrolet Corvette of Oliver Gavin and Olivier Beretta won Corvette Racing's final appearance in the GT1 category in the American Le Mans Series.

Asian Le Mans Series

This idea was followed by the American Le Mans Series with the 2000 Race of a Thousand Years race at the Adelaide Street Circuit in Australia.

Plans for a new endurance championship were initially conceived by Don Panoz and backed by the ACO in 2000 with plans for an Asian-Pacific Le Mans Series, modeled after his American Le Mans Series and planned European Le Mans Series for 2001.

European Le Mans Series

The European Le Mans Series is similar to the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) based in the United States and Canada that has been running with ACO backing since 1999, which is run by IMSA.

The aged IMSA GT Championship was taken over and became the new American Le Mans Series, and met with much success in 1999.

Ferrari 550

2003 would be the best year for the cars, as Prodrive won the GTS class at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, took second in the GTS class championship in the American Le Mans Series with four wins, and Scuderia Italia won the FIA GT championship with eight wins.

Greaves Motorsport

Bruichladdich Radical remained in the Le Mans Series in 2008, but had an all-new driver line-up of Jens Petersen, Jan-Dirk Leuders and Marc Rostan.

KW Motorsport Ltd

KW Motorsport Ltd have a wide range of engineering consultancy in Champ car and Le Mans series including the design of the Nasamax, Protan and Creation AutoSportif chassis that are based on Reynard Motorsports original products.

Las Vegas Grand Prix

Grand Prix of Las Vegas, an IMSA/American Le Mans Series race held from 1997-2000

Miguel Amaral

Amaral and ASM Team continue to run their Lola in the Le Mans Series in 2007 and 2008.

OAK Racing

A partnership with Mazda Automobiles France was formed at this time with OAK Racing entering two Pescarolo-Mazda LMP2s in the 2009 Le Mans Series and Le Mans 24 Hours as well as participating in the two Asian Le Mans Series events at Japan’s Okayama circuit.

Romeo Kapudija

In 2010 he competed full-time in the American Le Mans Series' new GTC class driving for Alex Job Racing.