24 Heures du Mans
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Le Mans 24 Hours
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- The ACO has revealed the list of invited teams for preliminary session of 2004 Le Mans 24 Hours (50 + 6 reserve cars) : PROTOTYPE LM P1 : PROTOTYPE LM P2 : GRAND TOURISME LM GTS : GRAND TOURISME LM GT : 4 - Taurus Sports Rcg (GB) - Lola Judd - LM P1 (ex LMP 900) 75 - Thierry Perrier (F) - Porsche 911 GT3 RS - LM GT 99 - XL Rcg (F) - Ferrari 550 Maranello - LM GT 16 - Rcg For Holland (NL) - Dome Judd - LM P1 (ex LM P 900) 90 - Chamberlain / Synergy Motorsport (GB) - TVR Tuscan 400R - LM GT 84 - Seikel Motorsport (D) - Porsche 911 GT3 RS - LM GT --------------- |
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- Rules for pilots (from ACO) for preliminary session : At least 2 of expected pilots for the race have to be present for the preliminary session day. Those who are not in ACO reference list must run 10 laps during this test day in order to be qualify for june race. --------------- |
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- Schedules of Preliminaries : Administrative and technical scruteenering : friday 23th april from 10h00 to 18h00 and saturday 24th april from 9h00 to 15h00. Preliminary session : sunday 25th april from 9h00 to 13h00 and 14h00 to 18h00. --------------- |
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- The ACO selection committee is make up by 7 members : Jean-Claude Plassart (ACO managing director), Jean-Pierre Allain (member of ACO management committee), Jean-Marc Desnues (ACO central manager), Daniel Poissenot (ACO sports manager and race manager), Jacques Olivier (director of sports race stewards), Gérard Gaschet (sports representative for international relationship) and Daniel Perdrix (international technical representative) --------------- |
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- 24H Daytona results, raced on january 31th and february 1st 2004 : 1- Pontiac Doran n° 54 - Bell Motorsports - Borcheller / Barber /
Pilgrim / C.Fittipaldi - 526 laps Best lap during the race : Best qualify lap : --------------- |
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- 12Hrs Sebring results, raced on march 20 and 21th 2004 : 1- Audi R8 n° 28 - Audi Sport UK Team Veloqx - Kaffer / Biela / McNish
- 350 laps Best lap during the race : Best qualify lap : --------------- |
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- Cars of former "Group C" will run saturday morning before the 24H Le Mans race. Concerned cars are from years 1984 to 1993 which ran in Group C and IMSA / GTP. 40 cars with 4 reserve cars expected. Qualify on thursday 10th june from 17h30 to 18h30. Race saturday 12th june from 10h00 to 10h40. --------------- |
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Next full informations on this sites --------------- |
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Official site informations
- 03/26/2004 : The ACO reveals the list of the 50 cars invited to the 24 Hours. More duels in perspective in the pure Le Mans tradition. - 02/19/2004 : 77 entries for the 72nd Le Mans 24 Hours, (12th - 13th June 2004) --------------- |
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"Le Mans" informations on site
- 03/26/2004 : 2004 Le Mans 24H entry list - 03/26/2004 : Bob Akin Memorial Motorsports Award announced - 03/26/2004 : Thirteen ALMS entrants invited to Le Mans - 03/26/2004 : Morgan Works receives invite - 03/26/2004 : ACO reveals list of invitees - 03/26/2004 : Teams named for the 2004 Le Mans 24 Hours - 03/24/2004 : McRae test Ferrari for eye on Le Mans - 03/09/2004 : Tom Coronel 2004 program - 03/08/2004 : Barron Connor Racing complete 2004 driver lineup - 02/26/2004 : Care Racing/DAMS announce agreement - 02/18/2004 : Champion Racing announces 2004 sponsors - 02/13/2004 : Ex-Formula 1 stars complete Audi teams - 02/11/2004 : British Audi team announces driver lineup - 01/20/2004 : Orbit and BAM! join forces for 2004 Le Mans --------------- |
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For more informations (only in french) of the sites : see the french part of this newsletter. |
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Site
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- 1579 visits in january, 1601 visits in february on the site. --------------- |
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- 3 new photos added on 1955 accident page. --------------- |
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- New summary of Le Mans Racing magazines n° 19 and 20 added. --------------- |
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- New page created on 2003 Le Mans 1000 Km, with results and 15 photos (14 from Stéphane Lusteau). --------------- |
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- New summary of magazines n° 10, 11, 12 and 13 of "Les Plus Bellles Voitures des 24H du Mans" collection added. --------------- |
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- Correction of several pilots informations (Jean Estager, Lord Selsdon, Patrick Mitchell-Thompson, Michael Collier, Miles Collier et Lord Waleran), in "pilots" part. --------------- |
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- New links added (7 unofficial sites, 2 official site and 4 miscellaneous sites). --------------- |
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- Last forum items : (somes are in french) [Name of starter Le Mans 2004 ? ] [1975-Porsche 911 RSR Vaillant n° 65 pilotes Billy- Bellanos-Contreras ] [Conseils pour suivre sur place les 24H du Mans ] [Pictures from Le Mans 1978 to 1985 ? ] [Gilberte THIRION aux 24H du Mans 1954 ? ] [Collection "Les plus belles voitures des 24H du Mans"] [24h Le Mans ] [Le Mans 1955 - temoins/ witnesses ] [ACCIDENT 1955] |
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Advertises
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- New site (in french) on Le Mans 24 Hours : http://24lemans.free.fr/ , photos, news, links, database with pilots, teams, cars, archives and miscelleanous items. --------------- |
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- New site (english and portuguese) by Luis Santos, on Le Mans 24 Hours "Le Mans the legend" : www.mcestoril.pt/le-mans . Very hard and long work to offer a very large database with pilots, teams, cars, results, photos and links ... --------------- |
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- Other sites on Le Mans : www.les24hmans.fr.st/ , "Le Mans News" : www.lemansnews.net/, "Porsche Curves Pirates" : www.porschecurvepirates.co.uk/ , "Larry Le Mans" : www.larrylemans.co.uk/ --------------- |
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- The "Le Mans Endurance Series" (LMES) site , (french and english) : www.lmes.net/ . --------------- |
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- "UKF1" site, http://www.ukf1.net/ , many videos, photos, links on lots of racecars. To see ! --------------- |
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- Sir Malcom Guthrie is searching for former Le Mans drivers to join the Le Mans "Club des Pilotes". You can contact him by the site : www.club-des-pilotes.com/ . --------------- |
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- Jacques Mertens (site : http://users.skynet.be/porsche356sl ) is looking for old documents on 1955 Le Mans accident. He also want to know the reason why Mrs Gilberte Thirion cannot drive during the 1954 Le Mans race, despite she qualified the car during practice. She would have said that no woman can drive this year, but it was not on the rules. --------------- |
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- Christopher Hilton, english writer, is writing a book on Le Mans 1955 and he would like to hear from anybody who was there. He would like to include personal memories in the book. The book is to be published by Breedon Books of Derby to coincide with next year's anniversary. You can find his address in the forum of the site. --------------- |
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- Other advertises are in french, see the french part
of this newsletter.
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