2009 team Confirmed Entry list

[rmfa30]

Anyone know where I can find a Confirmed team/car entry list - thus far (although I think entries had to be confirmed by 15th Jan) for this years race?
Thx

[Red Firecracker]

The ACO will release the full detailed list towards the end of February at a press conference in Paris.

The latest press release with a couple of little spoilers is here;

http://www.lemans.org/mailing/2009/01_29_24h/datas...

Edited by Red Firecracker on Sunday 1st February 09:25

[Vette_1978]

Gigawave DBR9 pulled out, Seattle Advanced Engineering F430 added.

This also means some fancy namby pamby actor called Patrick Dempsey gets a drive. I'd expect as much from him as our very own Lord in ALMS.

[Just-In]

Vette_1978 said:

Gigawave DBR9 pulled out, Seattle Advanced Engineering F430 added.

This also means some fancy namby pamby actor called Patrick Dempsey gets a drive. I'd expect as much from him as our very own Lord in ALMS.

That'll probably be another documentary/film though so not all bad news eh?

[Red Firecracker]

Doubt it. He looks like quite a serious competitor. Raced the Daytona 24 Hours and several Grand Am races and is also joint owner of an Indycar team. Seems to be in it for the racing rather than the publicity.

Apparently he is in something called 'Greys Anatomy' which I thought was a text book.

[Red Firecracker]

Epsilon Euskadi have withdrawn both their LMP1's, which is a great shame.

This means the Endurance Racing China Porsche 997 RSR is in, the first ever entry from the PRC.

[//j17]

Red Firecracker said:

Epsilon Euskadi have withdrawn both their LMP1's, which is a great shame.

This means the Endurance Racing China Porsche 997 RSR is in, the first ever entry from the PRC.

If BOTH cars have been withdrawn I assume that opens 2 grid spots. If ERC took one any idea what the other reserve was that moved up?

[Red Firecracker]

//j17 said:

Red Firecracker said:

Epsilon Euskadi have withdrawn both their LMP1's, which is a great shame.

This means the Endurance Racing China Porsche 997 RSR is in, the first ever entry from the PRC.

If BOTH cars have been withdrawn I assume that opens 2 grid spots. If ERC took one any idea what the other reserve was that moved up?

It opens 1 grid slot (filled by the GT2 997) and all the reserves move up one.

They haven't added to the reserve list.

Current reserve list is;

GT2 R1 IMSA PERFORMANCE MATMUT FRA MICHELIN PORSCHE 911 GT3 RSR (997) 3996A
LM P2 R2 BARAZI EPSILON FRA . ZYTEK 07S 3396A
LM P2 R3 GERARD WELTER FRA DUNLOP WR ZYTEK 3396A
GT2 R4 TEAM FELBERMAYR-PROTON DEU . PORSCHE 911 GT3 RSR (997) 3996A
GT2 R5 SNORAS SPYKER SQUADRON NLD MICHELIN SPYKER C8 LAVIOLETTE 3800A
GT1 R6 TEAM LARBRE COMPETITION FRA . SALEEN S7R 6998A
LM P2 R7 RACING BOX SRL ITA MICHELIN LOLA JUDD COUPE 3397A


Interestingly, the Racing Box Lola is the team that 'withdrew' from last years race after there were paperwork problems after the test day.

Edited by Red Firecracker on Saturday 4th April 10:43

[Red Firecracker]

Looks like the IMSA Performance 997 might be in. DSC is reporting that the Vitaphone Porsche may have withdrawn.