Michelin Le Mans Cup

[Bcarr6]

Originally Posted by Speed-King

Personally, I'd like to see them moving GTE over from ELMS to the Michelin Cup and making ELMS a prototype-only series. That way they could also get rid of the grid limits for the P3s and ELMS' GTE + the 11 GT3s from the Michelin Cup would actually make for a decent field.

Don't really see it happening, though.

I actually agree with you to some extent. My argument to counter is the joy of watching P2s lap cars, but I guess more LMP3s make that happen anyway, so I guess it'd be good all round

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Saturday: ELMS GT 3 Hours (GTE, GT3, GT4, CUP)
Sunday: ELMS Proto 3 Hours (LMP1-Nonhybrid, LMP2, LMP3, CN)

No grid limits

Would be nice

[Bcarr6]

Originally Posted by Chiana

Saturday: ELMS GT 3 Hours (GTE, GT3, GT4, CUP)
Sunday: ELMS Proto 3 Hours (LMP1-Nonhybrid, LMP2, LMP3, CN)

No grid limits

Would be nice

Winning combo

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DSC says the Riley LMP3 will be at the LM round. But given tghat Murphy hasn't been able to field one even for Imola, I remain slightly cautious

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At LM, it's the Ferrari Challenge that gets the support race slot #1 following the morning warm-up. So Road to Le Mans is moved to 11.10-12.10 local time. I fear this might substantially lower the chances of Eurosport covering it then, but hope not.

[Bcarr6]

Slight boost for the numbers- TF Sport likely to enter a second car from the 3rd race of the season, for Devon Modell and Andrew Jarman


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[Bcarr6]

Dean Koutsoumidis and James Winslow announced behind the wheel of one of Graff Racings Ligier LMP3s for the Le Mans race.

We officially have three LMP3s announced


EDIT: make that 4- PS racing will be bringing their Adess 03 for the pre Le Mans race. Angelo Negro and Philippe Prette driving.

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Where did you get the info?

Anyhow, great news about ADESS! So we have Onroak, ADESS and (subject to readiness) Riley. Of the existing makes (not Dome, not Norma) that means only Ginetta is missing.

[Bcarr6]

Originally Posted by Chiana

Where did you get the info?

Anyhow, great news about ADESS! So we have Onroak, ADESS and (subject to readiness) Riley. Of the existing makes (not Dome, not Norma) that means only Ginetta is missing.

Endurance Info, not the sturdiest source but comes with a pretty good visual of the car in team colours

The car, nicknamed 'Moneypenny' will do the Road to Le Mans race followed by a go at the new Asian sprint cup and ASLMS

http://www.endurance-info.com/en/ps-...dess-03-lm-p3/

[Graham Goodwin]

Lots more GT3 cup news tmw - there's a 12th car for the race at Imola - Lots of confirmed LMP3s for LM24

If interested in which teams said they will enter more cars later in the season see out coverage on DSC from the official Paul Ricard test.

TF, FF, AF (lots of 'f's s!) all said they'd bring more cars for future rounds

[Bcarr6]

As Mr Goodwin suggested, there is an additional entry this weekend in the Sports and Classic Ferrari,bringing total to 12. Also confirmed is the second TF sport Aston Martin from the Le Mans round.




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[Bcarr6]

LMGT3 CUP LINEUP 2016

FF Corse - Ferrari 488 GT3 - Johnny Mowlem / Ivor Dunbar

FFF Racing Tean by ACM - McLaren 650s GT3 - Adrian Quaiffe-Hobbs / Hiroshi Hamiguichi

FFF Racing Tean by ACM - Lamborghini Huracan GT3 - Andrea Caudarelli / Sean Fo Songyang

Tockwith Motorsports - Audi R8 LMS Ultra GT3 - Phillip Hanson / Nigel Moore

TF Sport - Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 - Salih Yoluc / Euan Hankey

AF Corse - Ferrari 488 GT3 - Thomas Flohr / Francesco Castelacci

AF Corse - Ferrari 458 GT3 Italia - Felipe Barreiros / Mads Rasmussen

AF Corse - Ferrari 458 GT3 Italia - Rui Aguas / Pierre Marie De Leener

Villorba Corse - Ferrari 458 GT3 Italia - Cedric Mezard / Steeve Hiesse

BMS Scuderia Italia - Ferrari 458 GT3 Italia - Luigi Lucchini / Matteo Cressoni

Mentos Racing - Porsche 911 GT3 R - Egidio Perfetti / Klaus Bachler

Classic and Modern Racing - Ferrari GT3 458 Italia - Nicholas Misslin / Maxime Vaxivivre


FROM SECOND ROUND ONWARDS

TF Sport - Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 - Andrew Jarman / Devon Modell


LM ONLY

United Autosports - Audi R8 LMS Ultra GT3 - Phil Burgan / TBA

Graff Racing - Ligier LMP3 - Dean Koutsoumidis / James Winslow

United Autosports - Ligier LMP3 - Martin Brundle / Christian England

United Autosports - Ligier LMP3 - TBA / TBA


UNDER CONSIDERATION

Pegasus Racing - Callaway Corvette C6 GT3 - TBA / TBA

Villorba Corse - Ferrari 458 GT3 Italia - TBA / TBA


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[Coach Ep]

12 cars.

Scheduling the race on the same weekend as the BES round at Silverstone was foolish to begin with but will the scheduling powers (are the same folks in charge of the AsLMS calendar???) ever understand...

[Bcarr6]

Originally Posted by Coach Ep

12 cars.

Scheduling the race on the same weekend as the BES round at Silverstone was foolish to begin with but will the scheduling powers (are the same folks in charge of the AsLMS calendar???) ever understand...

They seem to be little keen to pretend the Blancpain series doesn't exist... Which is foolish.

Ignoring the biggest power in GT3 is nuts

I still think they should have just brought The GT OPEN and improved that by getting it on ELMS calendars. Now there's two euro series fighting for the same cars

[Speed-King]

Originally Posted by Bcarr6

They seem to be little keen to pretend the Blancpain series doesn't exist... Which is foolish.

Ignoring the biggest power in GT3 is nuts

I still think they should have just brought The GT OPEN and improved that by getting it on ELMS calendars. Now there's two euro series fighting for the same cars

Not easy to buy something if it isn't for sale.

[Bcarr6]

Originally Posted by Speed-King

Not easy to buy something if it isn't for sale.

Totally true, I just think a more collaborative effort could have made a strong single series. Hopefully they pick up through the season though!

[Mt. Lynx]

There are so many options för GT3 teams today, that If you want to start a new series, I think some serious outside the box thinking is in order.

[Bcarr6]

First race has just gone green, p1 and p2 off track in first lap, now a brilliant Aston vs McLaren battle happening on track


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Road to Le Mans LMP3/GT3 Schedule (local French times)

Wednesday
20.30-21.30 Free Practice 1

Thursday
14.30-15.30 Free Practice 2
18.00-18.30 Qualifying

Saturday
11.10-12.10 Support Race

Total track time is 3,5 hours. Ferrari Challenge has 15 minutes less, only because their race is just the regular 45 minutes.

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LE MANS ENTRY LIST
http://www.24h-lemans.com/wpphpFichi...-mans-2016.pdf

22x LMP3
17x GT3

Still no Riley, but there is one ADESS and one Ginetta.

[Bcarr6]

Good LMP3 field, I'm surprised by only gaining 5 GT3 entries. I wonder how many of those will stay for further races.

AF Corse have bought in a second 488 which I guess will probably be for just this race.

Interestingly Labre Competition are bringing a AMG GT3, surprising when they have such good relationships with GM. Although the driver entry makes it look entirely like a pure customer entry.

Barwell bring their British GT pair in the now usual Huracan.

DKR engineering bring the awesome sound of the Z4 to Le Mans.

And of course, TF Sport bring in their second Aston Martin which has already been confirmed to be a rest of season entry.


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The P3 field is above expectations, yeah I mean of course you'd wish for more than "Ligier" fest but under the circumstances it's understable, and of course the spread of teams is nice. Still hoping for that Riley to appear in Murphy's garage but not holding my breath. Overall, I'm pleased by the turnout, now just hoping for Eurosport (or someone) to show it on TV live.

If they can only get five extra GT3s, you know worlds most populous category, for the support race of worlds biggest motor race, and without requirement to do other races (unlike with LMP3), it calls doom for later. I think even the one make Aston GT4s got numbers like that, in their LM support races, as the very lowest of classes...

[Rodger Davies]

Murphy entering a Ligier for Mr Ave? That's not a good sign.

Surprised at how poor the GT3 field is, especially when so many of them are not exactly big teams or new cars.

Still, won't be bad as a support race, should be good fun.

[ATLFalconsFAN]

I'm very interested in seeing this series do well since I am a fan of both Michelin and seeing GT3 cars that have previously not been raced around La Sarthe racing around La Sarthe.

I must say that I am very disappointed with the marketing of this series to this point. The website is sorely lacking, and I find it hard to believe that by signing up to their email updates I had to come to this forum to see the entry list. You would think that would have been in my inbox this morning.

[Bcarr6]

Originally Posted by ATLFalconsFAN

I'm very interested in seeing this series do well since I am a fan of both Michelin and seeing GT3 cars that have previously not been raced around La Sarthe racing around La Sarthe.



I must say that I am very disappointed with the marketing of this series to this point. The website is sorely lacking, and I find it hard to believe that by signing up to their email updates I had to come to this forum to see the entry list. You would think that would have been in my inbox this morning.

It's not like this is a new company running this either, these are the big guns having a go at running a GT3 series.