24 Heures du Mans

NEWSLETTER - n° 14 - Nov 2003

03/11/2003


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24 Heures du Mans

- New french site "Docs Le Mans", books, vidéos, magazines and archives on Le Mans 24 Hours, by Eric Landmann : http://perso.wanadoo.fr/clopernico/acceuil.html

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- 2004 LMES and 24H Schedules :

25th april - Test day Le Mans 24Hrs

9th may - Le Mans Endurance Series (LMES) : Monza 1000 Kms

12 and 13th june - Le Mans 24 Hours Racecar

11th july - LMES : Nürbürgring 1000 Kms

15th august - LMES : Silverstone 1000 Kms

12th september - LMES : Spa-Francorchamps 1000 Kms

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- Le Mans 1000 Kms Schedules - 9th november 2003 / Bugatti track : (source lemans.org)

Private tests schedules (open to the public, price 2 Euros) :
Monday 3rd november : 9h to12h (GT) / 14h to 17h (Protos)
Tuesday 4th november : 9h to12h (Protos) / 14h to 17h (GT)
Wenedsday 5th november : 9h to12h (GT) / 14h to 17h (Protos)
Thursday 6th november : 9h to12h (Protos) / 14h to 17h (GT)

Administrative and technical scrutineering : friday 7th november from 8h00 to18h00

Saturday 8th november :

9H to 9H30 - Tests session all Categories "Le Mans 1000 km"
9h45 to 10h10 - Qualify session Euroboss (old Formule 1)
10H30 to 11H - Qualify, 1st Session LMGT, LMGTS
11H15 to 11H45 - Qualify, 1st session LMP900, LMP675, LMGTP
14H to 14H30 - Qualify 2nd session LMGT, LMGTS
14H45 to 15H15 - Qualify 2nd session LMP900, LMP675, LMGTP
15h30 to 16h30 - Marque Club (Presentation)
16h45 to 17h10 - Qualify session Euroboss (old Formule 1)

Sunday 9th november :

9H to 9H30 - Warm-Up "Le Mans 1000 km"
9h45 to 10h15 - Marque Club (Presentation)
10H30 - Euroboss race (18 laps) (old Formule 1)
12h - Start "Le Mans 1000 km"

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- Prices Le Mans 1000 Kms : ticket « Enceintes Générales » at 20 € for 3 days (friday to sunday). Free access to tribunes except for ACO tribunes.

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- Le Mans 1000 Kms race will secure 9 qualifying places for 2004 Le Mans 24 Hrs. 3 places in LMP900 and LMGTP, 2 in LMP675, 1 in LMGTS and 3 in LMGT.

Winners of each class of "Petit Le Mans" ALMS race supply a place for Le Mans 24Hrs. The teams ADT Champion Rcg - Audi R8 (LMP900), Prodrive - Ferrari 550 Maranello (LMGTS), Intersport Rcg - MG Lola EX257 (LMP675) and Alex Job Rcg - Porsche GT3 RS (LMGT) have won their tickets to Le Mans in case of candidature to the race.

Winners of each class of ALMS Championship have also won their tickets to Le Mans (still in case of candidature). These teams are : Infineon Team Joest - Audi R8 (LMP900), Dyson Rcg Team - Lola MG EX257 (LMP675), Corvette Rcg - Corvette CR (LMGTS) et Alex Job Rcg - Porsche GT3 RS (LMGT) (2nd ticket to Le Mans for Alex Job Rcg, will they keep it or will it be awarded to another team ?).

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- Entry list for Le Mans 1000 Kms : (source "lemans.org")

PROTOTYPE - LMP900

2 - Pescarolo Sport - Courage C60 Peugeot - (Lagorce/Sarrazin/Bourdais)
3 - Team Nasamax - Reynard Cosworth - (Dumas/Stirling/Lupberger)
4 - Lister Rcg - Lister Storm - (Campbell Walter/Coronel/Kinch)
5 - Audi Sport Japan Team Goh - Audi R8 - (Ara/Kristensen)
6 - Intersport Rcg - Riley & Scott MKIIIC - (Field/Sutherland/Graham)
7 - Fred Goddard - Reynard - (Goddard)
8 - Rcg For Holland - Dome S101 Judd - (Lammers)
9 - Taurus Sport Rcg - Lola Judd - (Andrews/Oberto/Keen)

PROTOTYPE - LMGTP

10 - JML Team Panoz - Panoz GTP Elan - (Saelens/Beretta)

PROTOTYPE - LMP675

12 - Pierre Bruneau - Pilbeam - (Bruneau/Rostan)
13 - Courage Compétition - Courage JPX - (Eyckmans/Rustinov/Muscioni)
14 - RML - MG Lola EX257 - (Erdos/Newton)
15 - Didier Bonnet - Debora Mader - (Lemarié/Bossy/Bich)
18 - Intersport Rcg - Lola Judd EX257 - (Field/Dayton/Connor)
24 - Rachel Welter - WR Peugeot - (Porta/Terada)
25 - Gérard Welter - WR Peugeot - (Daoudi/Brière/DeFournoux)

GRAND TOURISME - LMGTS

66 - Konrad Motorsport - Saleen S7R - (Konrad)
80 - Veloqx Care Rcg - Ferrari 550 Maranello - (Davies/Turner)
86 - Larbre Compétition - Chrysler Viper GTS R - (Bouchut/Zacchia)
88 - Veloqx Care Rcg - Ferrari 550 Maranello - (Kox/Sugden)
90 - Reiter Engineering - Lamborghini Murcielago -

GRAND TOURISME - LMGT

30 - Scuderia Ecosse - Ferrari 360 Modena - (Franchitti/Carter/Niarchos)
31 - RJ Cole - Corvette C5R - (Cole/LeBas/Cook)
32 - System Force Motorsport - Porsche GT3 RS - (VanMerksteijn/Munsterhuis)
33 - Bernard Jubin - Porsche GT3 RS - (Noël/Orgeval)
34 - Noël Del Bello - Porsche GT3 RS - (MauryLaribière/Pillon)
35 - XL Rcg - Ferrari 550 Maranello - (Rousselot/Lesoudier)
36 - Sebah QM Engineering - Porsche GT3 RS - (Pompidou/Rymer/Hayden)
38 - PK Sport Ltd - Porsche GT3 RS - (Liddell/Belloc/Hayden)
39 - Freisinger Motorsport - Porsche GT3 RS - (Ortelli)
40 - Seikel Motorsport - Porsche GT3 RS - (Rosa/Caffi/Mowlen)
41 - Seikel Motorsport - Porsche GT3 RS - (Burgess/Collin)
42 - T2M - Motorsport - Porsche GT3 RS -
44 - Spyker Automobielen BV - Spyker Double 12R - (Simon/VanSchoote)
45 - Dewalt Racesports Salisbury - TVR Tuscan - (Halliday/Stretton)
46 - Dewalt Racesports Salisbury - TVR Tuscan - (Berridge/Caine/Stanton)
47 - Cirtek Motorsport - Ferrari 360 Modena - (Engelhorn/Montermini)
48 - Olivier Baron - Porsche GT3 RS - (Corbel/Cohignac/Bernard)
49 - The Morgan Motor Co. - Morgan Aero 8 - (Laffite/Cunningham/Sharpe)

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- Bentley has announced that they won't come back for Le Mans 2004.

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- ALMS 2004 schedules

March 15-20, Sebring
June 25-27, Mid-Ohio
July 2-5, Lime Rock Park
July 16-18, Sonoma, Calif.
July 23-25, Portland International Raceway
August 6-8, Mosport
August 20-22, Road America
September 22-25, Road Atlanta
October 14-16, Laguna Seca

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You can find complete news on : [www.lemans.org] , [www.club-arnage.com/] , [www.theracesite.com ] [www.motorsport.com/ ]
 
Site

- 3191 visits in august, 2682 visits in september and 1462 visits in october on the site.

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- New change of mailing list provider. The newsletter is now sent by one my provider "free.fr" and this time without publicity. The newsletter is in text format, in french and in english.

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- New Le Mans Racing magazine (n° 17) summary added on part "documents"

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- "Archives", "documents" and "newsletter" pages are now hosted at "free.fr" instead of "ifrance.com". There is now no pub on top of the page. It remains only popups due to my counters "compteurs.com".

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- New weather picture for Sarhe department in 24 Hours presentation page.

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- 2 new french collection articles in collection page. The "Victoire au Mans" book, written by Bernard Clavel in 1968, and the "Les aventures de Michel Vaillant, TV series" 2 DVD.

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- 5 new links of unofficial sites, 3 new links of official sites and 2 links of miscelleanous sites.

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- 2 new great quality photos from Antonio B. in Le Mans 2003 photos pages.

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- 6 new Le Mans stamps added in "stamps" page on "dossiers" part

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- New page on 2003 Spa-Francorchamps 1000 Kms on "dossiers" part with 29 photos from Jérôme M.

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- New page on "Les plus belles voitures des 24H du mans" collection, on "dossiers" part.

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- Last forum themes : [new newsletter] others are in french, you can add a new subject if you want.
 
Advertises

- For newsgroups users who can understand french, I recommend you the french spoken group : "fr.rec.sport.automobile". It is mostly about Formule 1, but it can contain some Le Mans messages. It is frequently used by specialists, and you can easy have answers with your questions.

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- The "Le Mans Classic" will take place on Bugatti track, Le Mans on 24th and 25th july 2004. Qualify will be on friday 23th july. Site http://www.lemansclassic.com

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- Le Mans 2004 Schedules : (source lemans.org)

20-21 march - Motorbike french open championship

10-11 april - 24 Hours Motorbikes

25 april - Test day Le Mans 24Hrs

15-16 may - French moto Grand Prix

12-13 june - Le Mans 24 Hours Racecar

10-11 july - French Cup Promosport, Course de côte moto

24-25 july - Le Mans Classic

18-19 september - Endurance 50cc moto

25-26 september - "Le Mans" Super serie FFSA, French Championship

28-30 september - Rally of Libye, (scrutineering and Prologue at Le Mans)

2-10 october - Rally of Libye

9-10 october - Trophée Inter-Ecuries (Coupe de France des circuits), Auto-Cross Inter-Ecuries (Coupe de france), Fol'Car Inter-ecuries (Coupe de France), Euroboss Championship Le Mans

23-24 october - 24 Hours Trucks (Coupe d'Europe et Coupe de france), Camion Cross du Mans (Coupe de France)

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- New sites :

Association Jean Rondeau (french site) : http://site.voila.fr/jeanrondeau

Le Mans 24Hrs on "France Télévision" (french site) : http://24hdumans.francetv.fr/

Site "Crash.net", global motorsports portal : http://www.crash.net

Site "french rendez-vous" by Thierry Lesparre (french site) : http://www.lesparre.webfolks.net/

Site "dipictures", photos from David Piolé (french site) : http://dipictures.free.fr/

Site "Estoril race photos", Estoril races photos : http://www.freewebs.com/estoril-race-photos/index.htm

Site from Michel Vaillant and Jean Graton fanclub (french site) : http://michelvaillant.free.fr/

Site Infos Course Association (french site) : http://www.infoscourse.org/

Site "sportproto.com", Sport Proto passion (french site) : http://www.sportproto.com

Site "Docs Le Mans", books, vidéos, magazines and archives, by Eric Landmann (french site) : http://perso.wanadoo.fr/clopernico/acceuil.html

 

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