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- Final results 24 Heures du Mans 2003 1- Bentley n°
7 - Team Bentley - LM GTP - Rinaldo Capello (I)/ Tom Kristensen (DK)/
Guy Smith (GB) -377 laps 2- Bentley n°
8 - Team Bentley - LM GTP - Mark Blundell (GB)/ Johnny Herbert (GB)/ David
Brabham (AUS) - 375 / -2 laps 3- Audi n° 6 -
Champion Rcg - 1° LM P900 - JJ Lehto (FIN)/ Emanuele Pirro (I)/ Stefan
Johansson (SW) - 372 / -5 laps 10- Ferrari Maranello
n° 88 - Veloqx Prodrive Rcg - 1° LM GTS - Tomas Enge (CZE)/ Jamie
Davies (GB)/ Peter Kox (NL) - 336 / -41 laps 14- Porsche GT3 RS
n° 93 - Alex Job Rcg - 1° LM GT - Lucas Luhr (D)/ Sascha Maassen
(D)/ Emmanuel Collard (F) - 320 / -57 laps 15- Reynard Lehmann
n° 29 - Noël Del Bello Rcg - 1° LM P675 - Didier André
(F)/ JeanLuc MauryLaribière (F)/ Christophe Pillon (CH) - 319 /
-58 laps Nearly 220 000 spectators., 71st time. Weather sunny and warm during qualify and race. Start was made by Don Panoz (ALMS originator and creator of Panoz cars). 50 cars on qualify. 49 cars at start, 19 retirement and 30 cars at arrival within 27 classified. Best lap on race by Johnny Herbert (GB) Bentley n° 8 with 3'35"529. --------------- |
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- Prévisional 2004 schedules (if approuved by federations, "www.lemans.org") : 24 Heures du Mans racecar, 12 and 13rd of june 20041000 kms Monza, 4th april 2004 1000 kms Nürburgring, 11st july 2004, 1000 kms Spa, 29th august 2004 1000 kms Silverstone, in september 2004 --------------- |
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- Le Mans Legend 2003 race : winning of the 1971 Ligier JS3 n° 27, driven by Willie Green. --------------- |
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- Death of Briggs Cunningham (USA) at 98 yeras old, on 2nd july from Alzheimer disease. He was the constructor of Cunningham cars and ran some of them at Le Mans 24 Hrs. He also piloted 10 times on the race : 1950 - Cadillac Spider
" Le Monstre " - (Walters) - 11° --------------- |
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- 9731 visits in june and 4042 visits in july on the site. --------------- |
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- Change of mailing list provider. The newsletter is now sent by "domeus.fr" site. Services messages are in french but the newsletter is both in french and in english. --------------- |
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- New Le Mans Racing magazine (n° 15 and 16) summary added on part "documents" --------------- |
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- New mirror site for index page provided by free.fr. --------------- |
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- Update of winners page with the 2003 winners. --------------- |
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- New pages on 2003 Le Mans 24 Hrs, qualify and race, with results, times, start grid with car draws, and 95 photos (with 10 photos from Stéphane L. and 5 by Dominique L.) --------------- |
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- 3 new links of unofficial sites and 2 links of miscelleanous sites. --------------- |
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- "commissaires de piste" part : 7 new photos with 1 from Michel R., new link added, and a link to a forum. --------------- |
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Advertises
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- ACO will prepare a new qualify race for 2004 Le Mans 24 Hrs, on 9th november 2003 on Le Mans Bugatti track. This 1000 kms race, will admit LMP900, LMP675, LMGTS and LMGT cars. It will supply 12 entries of the 3 first of each group for Le Mans 2004. Scrutineering will be on 7th november and qualify on saturday 8th november. --------------- |
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- Tickets prices for Le Mans 1000 kms - Bugatti track on 9/november/2003 (lemans.org) : Enceinte
générale (A)_20 €, (B/ACO members)_10 €, (C/comité
entreprises/groups over 20 pers.)_17 € Free access to the
Tribunes (except ACO Tribunes) Free outside Parking, inside 10 € --------------- |
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- The Karting Le Mans 24 Hrs will take place from 29 to 31 august. --------------- |
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- The Trucks Le Mans 24 Hrs will take place on 25 and 26th october. --------------- |
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- LM Story : from 19 to 21th september on Le Mans Bugatti track. More than 250 cars will be ready for 12 races. The cars will be divided into 9 differents categories. Consult official site " www.lmstory.com ". --------------- |
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- Publication of a polar book on Le Mans 24 Hrs, title "Off Course", written by Renaud Wagenaar. Intrigue, suspens on Le Mans race. Editions Libra Diffusion / Le Mans (book in french). --------------- |
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- New sites : Vandijkonline, [http://www.vandijkonline.net/ ]. Where GT racing and photography come together. Le Mans and Spa News, photos, links, forum. GT-Proto, [http://www.gt-proto.fr.st/]. News, photos, links, forum on GT, Proto cars and Le Mans. (site in french). AdrianStreather.com, [ http://www.adrianstreather.com/ ]. His writings about Porsche. Francorchamps-Zolder-Commissaire de piste, [ http://www.francorchamps-zolder.be/ ]. Commissaire de piste guid, news, events, photos, links, forum (site in french). --------------- |
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