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In WEC, Labre was trying to move to GTE-Pro and possibly field 2 Corvettes (one in GTE-PRO and one in GTE-AM). Rumors were they were trying to get more factory support, and it appears that didn't come through, and they are not running a full season car in either class. No full-season WEC Corvette this year.
Le Mans GTE-PRO will have 4 Fords, 3 Ferraris, 2 Corvettes, 2 Porsches, and 2 Astons.
Labre does have a Corvette in GTE-AM for Le Mans. AAI who also had a GTE-AM car at Le Mans this year is not listed. GTE-AM will have 8 Ferraris, 4 Porsches, 3 Astons, and 1 Corvette.
24H Le Mans Entry List Released
By John Dagys
Updated: February 2, 2017
Photo: Vision Sport Agency
The ACO has revealed the list of 60 entries for this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans, again featuring a maximum capacity grid for the French endurance classic, including 28 full-season WEC entrants.
As expected, the LMP1 class features only six cars, following the withdrawal of Audi, Rebellion Racing’s move to LMP2 and Toyota Gazoo Racing’s expansion to a three-car program.
The new-look LMP2 category features the largest field, with 25 entries, with the majority being Oreca 07s and Ligier JS P217s, although joined by three Dallara P217s and a lone Riley Mk. 30 entered by Keating Motorsports.
A total of 13 cars are entered in GTE-Pro, in a near-identical list to last year’s field, comprised of factory or works-supported entries from Ford, Ferrari, Aston Martin, Corvette and Porsche.
The GTE-Am class, meanwhile, sees 16 total entries, including five from the WEC and the debut of the Ferrari 488 GTE into the category.
Only two reserve entries have been nominated, one in LMP2 for RLR M Sport (Ligier JS P217) and an additional Proton Competition Porsche in GTE-Am.
While the ACO in the past have confirmed a full list of ten reserves, sources have indicated to Sportscar365 that only 64 entry requests were submitted for this year’s race.
“Endurance is in very good health and the 2017 season looks full of promise,” said ACO President Pierre Fillon.
“The on-track spectacle will be absolutely fantastic with duels among top-class drivers and all-out rivalry between the competitors. All the ingredients that make up the DNA of endurance have been combined for 2017.
“The field for the Le Mans 24 Hours is particularly rich with 16 nationalities from the four corners of the world and a host of teams, most of which race in our continental series in Europe, the United States and Asia thanks to the Asian Le Mans Series, which has really taken off.
“It is all proof of the success of the endurance pyramid so dear to the ACO.”
Mark Webber, meanwhile, has been named Grand Marshal for Le Mans, following in the footsteps of Alex Wurz, Tom Kristensen and Allan McNish, who have all retired from professional racing.
The 24 Hours of Le Mans is set for June 17-18.
LMP1 (6 Entries)
1 – Porsche Team – Porsche 919 Hybrid – Neel Jani*
2 – Porsche Team – Porsche 919 Hybrid – Timo Bernhard*
4 – Team ByKolles – ENSO CLM P1/01 NISMO – Robert Kubica*
7 – Toyota Gazoo Racing – Toyota TS050 Hybrid – Mike Conway*
8 – Toyota Gazoo Racing – Toyota TS050 Hybrid – Sebastien Buemi*
9 – Toyota Gazoo Racing – Toyota TS050 Hybrid – Stephane Sarrazin
LMP2 (25 Entries)
13 – Vaillante Rebellion – Oreca 07 – Nelson Piquet Jr.*
24 – CEFC Manor TRS Racing – Oreca 07 – Tor Graves*
25 – CEFC Manor TRS Racing – Oreca 07 – Roberto Gonzalez*
26 – G-Drive Racing – Oreca 07 – Roman Rusinov*
28 – TDS Racing – Oreca 07 – Francois Perrodo*
31 – Vaillante Rebellion – Oreca 07 – Nicolas Prost*
35 – Signatech Alpine Matmut – Alpine A470 – Stephane Richelmi*
36 – Signatech Alpine Matmut – Alpine A470 – Nicolas Lapierre*
37 – Jackie Chan DC Racing – Oreca 07 – David Cheng*
38 – Jackie Chan DC Racing – Oreca 07 – Ho-Pin Tung*
17 – IDEC Sport Racing – Ligier JS P217 – Patrice Lafargue
21 – DragonSpeed 10 Star – Oreca 07 – Henrik Hedman
22 – G-Drive Racing – Oreca 07 – Memo Rojas
23 – Panis Barthez Competition – Ligier JS P217 – Fabien Barthez
27 – SMP Racing – Dallara P217 – Mikhail Aleshin
29 – Racing Team Nederland – Dallara P217 – Jan Lammers
32 – United Autosports – Ligier JS P217 – Will Owen
33 – Eurasia Motorsport – Ligier JS P217 – Chris Hoy
34 – Tockwith Motorsport – Ligier JS P217 – Nigel Moore
39 – Graff Racing – Oreca 07 – James Allen
40 – Graff Racing – Oreca 07 – Enzo Guibbert
43 – Keating Motorsports – Riley Mk. 30 – Ben Keating
45 – Algarve Pro Racing – Ligier JS P217 – Mark Patterson
47 – Villobra Corse – Dallara P217
49 – ARC Bratislava – Oreca 07
GTE-Pro (13 Entries)
51 – AF Corse – Ferrari 488 GTE – James Calado*
63 – Corvette Racing – GM – Corvette C7.R – Jan Magnussen
64 – Corvette Racing – GM – Corvette C7.R – Oliver Gavin
66 – Ford Chip Ganassi Racing Team UK – Ford GT – Stefan Muecke*
67 – Ford Chip Ganassi Racing Team UK – Ford GT – Andy Priaulx*
68 – Ford Chip Ganassi Racing Team USA – Ford GT – Joey Hand
69 – Ford Chip Ganassi Racing Team USA – Ford GT – Ryan Briscoe
71 – AF Corse – Ferrari 488 GTE – Davide Rigon*
82 – Risi Competizione – Ferrari 488 GTE – Toni Vilander
91 – Porsche GT Team – Porsche 911 RSR – Richard Lietz*
92 – Porsche GT Team – Porsche 911 RSR – Michael Christensen*
95 – Aston Martin Racing – Aston Martin Vantage – Nicki Thiim*
97 – Aston Martin Racing – Aston Martin Vantage – Darren Turner*
GTE-Am (16 Entries)
54 – Spirit of Race –Ferrari 488 GTE – Thomas Flohr*
61 – Clearwater Racing –Ferrari 488 GTE – Weng Sun Mok*
77 – Dempsey Proton Racing –Porsche 911 RSR – Christian Ried*
86 – Gulf Racing UK –Porsche 911 RSR – Michael Wainwright*
98 – Aston Martin Racing –Aston Martin Vantage GTE – Paul Dalla Lana*
50 – Larbre Competition – Corvette C7.R – Ricky Taylor
55 – Spirit of Race – Ferrari 488 GTE – Duncan Cameron
60 – Clearwater Racing – Ferrari 488 GTE – Matt Griffin
62 – Scuderia Corsa – Ferrari 488 GTE – Cooper MacNeil
65 – Scuderia Corsa – Ferrari 488 GTE – Christina Nielsen
83 – DH Racing – Ferrari 488 GTE – Riccardo Ragazzi
84 – JMW Motorsport – Ferrari 458 GTE – Robert Smth
88 – Proton Competition – Porsche 911 RSR – Wolf Henzler
90 – TF Sport – Aston Martin Vantage GTE – Salih Yoluc
93 – Proton Competition – Porsche 911 RSR – Patrick Long
99 – Beechdean AMR – Aston Martin Vantage GTE -Andrew Howard
*Denotes full-season FIA World Endurance Championship entrant
Reserve Cars
46 – RLR M Sport – Ligier JS P217 – John Farano (LMP2)
94 – Mentos-Proton Racing .- Porsche 911 RSR – Egidio Perfetti (GTE-Am)
Some TV Updates, good for those without FS2. From IMSA's release:
The Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring Fueled by Fresh From Florida on March 18 will receive an additional 90 minutes of live FS1 coverage, with the race broadcast now beginning at 12:30 p.m. ET and continuing through the race’s conclusion with post-race coverage until 11 p.m. ET. The entire Sebring race also will be available on the FOX Sports GO app with FS1 authentication.
The two-hour, 40-minute race at Circuit of The Americas on May 6 has moved from FS2 to FS1, and now will be shown on a same-day delay beginning at 7 p.m. ET. The two-hour, 40-minute Mobil 1 SportsCar Grand Prix at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, meanwhile, moves from a same-day delay to live on FS1 on July 9 at 12 p.m. ET.
IMSA and FOX Sports have announced additional television coverage and schedule updates for the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship and also released the 2017 Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge television schedule.
In addition, IMSA and FOX Sports announced that the IMSA Prototype Challenge Presented by Mazda will have FS2 television coverage throughout the 2017 season.
“Our partnership with FOX Sports continues to pay dividends,” said IMSA Vice President, Marketing, David Pettit.
“Between the additional improvements we’ve made to the WeatherTech Championship television schedule, the continuation of a strong FS1 package for the Continental Tire Challenge and the introduction of FS2 coverage for IMSA Prototype Challenge Presented by Mazda, we head into the 2017 season in an extremely strong position from a domestic television perspective.”
Three upcoming WeatherTech Championship races have been updated from the original broadcast schedule previously released in December.
The Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring Fueled by Fresh From Florida on March 18 will receive an additional 90 minutes of live FS1 coverage, with the race broadcast now beginning at 12:30 p.m. ET and continuing through the race’s conclusion with post-race coverage until 11 p.m. ET.
The entire Sebring race also will be available on the FOX Sports GO app with FS1 authentication.
The two-hour, 40-minute race at Circuit of The Americas on May 6 has moved from FS2 to FS1, and now will be shown on a same-day delay beginning at 7 p.m. ET.
The two-hour, 40-minute Mobil 1 SportsCar Grand Prix at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, meanwhile, moves from a same-day delay to live on FS1 on July 9 at 12 p.m. ET.
In addition to WeatherTech Championship television schedule updates, IMSA also unveiled the 10-race FS1 broadcast schedule for the Continental Tire Challenge.
Each race will be tape-delayed on FS1 throughout the season, in addition to live streaming of all races on IMSA.com.
Continental Tire Challenge television coverage on FS1 begins this Sunday, Feb. 12 with the telecast of the BMW Endurance Challenge held at Daytona International Speedway on Friday, Jan. 27.
Additionally, FS2 television coverage for the IMSA Prototype Challenge series, which is set to debut on March 16-17 at Sebring , will be introduced this season. This series typically features two, 45-minute sprint races per event weekend.
Prototype Challenge television coverage will be produced by NASCAR Productions and will follow a similar format to IMSA Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge USA by Yokohama telecasts, which feature highlights of the first race followed by expanded coverage of the second race at each event. Specific broadcast details will be provided at a later time.
Complete WeatherTech Championship and Continental Tire Challenge schedules follow below.
2017 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Television / Streaming Schedule
Date Event/Venue Channel Times (All Times ET)
March 18 Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring FSGO* 10:30 a.m. – 11 p.m.
Fueled by Fresh From Florida FS1 12:30 p.m. – 11 p.m.
Sebring International Raceway
Sebring, Florida
April 8 BUBBA burger Sports Car Grand Prix FOX* 4 – 6 p.m.
at Long Beach
Long Beach, California
May 6 Circuit of The Americas FS1* 7:00 – 10:00 p.m.
Austin, Texas
June 3 Chevrolet Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix FS2 12:30 – 2:30 p.m.
Detroit, Michigan
July 2 Sahlen’s Six Hours of The Glen FSGO* 10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Watkins Glen International FS1 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Watkins Glen, New York FS2 1 – 4:30 p.m.
July 9 Mobil 1 SportsCar Grand Prix FS1* 12 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Canadian Tire Motorsport Park
Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada
July 22 Northeast Grand Prix FS2 3 – 6 p.m.
Lime Rock Park
Lakeville, Connecticut
Aug. 6 Continental Tire Road Race Showcase FS1* 2:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Road America
Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin
Aug. 27 Michelin GT Challenge at VIR FS1* 1:30 – 4:30 p.m.
VIRginia International Raceway
Danville, Virginia
Sept. 24 Continental Tire Monterey Grand Prix FS1* 5 – 8 p.m.
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Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca
Monterey, California
Oct. 7 Motul Petit Le Mans FSGO* 10:30 a.m. – 9:30 p.m.
Road Atlanta FS1 10:30 – 11:30 a.m.
Braselton, Georgia FS2 11:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
FS2 5 – 9:30 p.m.
NOTE: Broadcast dates and times subject to change
* – FOX Sports GO with FS1 authentication
2017 IMSA Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge Television Schedule*
Date Event/Venue Channel Times (All Times ET)
Feb. 12 BMW Endurance Challenge At Daytona FS1 1:30 – 4:00 p.m.
Daytona International Speedway
Daytona Beach, Florida
March 26 Sebring 120 FS1 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Sebring International Raceway
Sebring, Florida
May 13 Continental Tire Challenge FS1 12:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Circuit of the Americas
Austin, Texas
July 9 Continental Tire 150 at The Glen FS1 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Watkins Glen International
Watkins Glen, New York
July 15 Canadian Tire Motorsport Park FS1 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada
July 30 Lime Rock Park FS1 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Lakeville, Connecticut
Aug. 13 Continental Tire Road Race Showcase FS1 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Road America
Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin
Sept. 3 Oak Tree Grand Prix at VIR FS1 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
VIRginia International Raceway
Danville, Virginia
Oct. 1 Continental Tire Monterey Grand Prix FS1 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
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Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca
Monterey, California
Excellent write up....I once questioned the balance of power at Road America to some of the officials...I asked this..If you build a better mouse trap...why take something away from the folks that build it and give a advantage to the guys that build a lesser one...it's like giving candy to a kid that does have as good of a job in school...while he smiles at the kid that excelled and was given the same candy...wasn't there once a thing in racing called dominance...isn't that the reason for other manufacturers to step up to the plate and build a better race car?....Just saying
RADIO:
1) Streaming on IMSA TV on IMSA.com & RadioLeMans.com
2) Scanner frequency 454.000
3) Sirius 118
4) XM 205
5) SiriusXM Online 967
6) local 99.1 FM, 1050 AM
Chevrolet, Sebring International Raceway Extend Marketing Partnership
Press Release:
Chevrolet, Sebring International Raceway Extend Marketing Partnership
Chevrolet continues as Official Vehicle of Sebring
DETROIT (March 13, 2017) – Chevrolet and Sebring International Raceway confirmed today an extension of their marketing partnership as the two groups head into the 65th Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring Fueled by Fresh from Florida.
“It’s a pleasure for Chevrolet to continue our relationship with Sebring International Raceway,” said Michael Stouffer, Chevrolet Marketing Motorsports Manager. “This partnership allows us to showcase Chevrolet and the Corvette brand on one of the biggest stages in global sports car racing. Sebring is steeped in tradition, and we are proud to play a significant role in the race’s history with a number of victories and important moments.”
Chevrolet continues to serve as the Official Vehicle of Sebring – one of multiple, mutual benefits for both sides. Chevrolet also is displayed prominently around the track with high-visibility signage including the famed Turn One walkover bridge along with additional significant activations at the 12 Hours of Sebring.
Sebring International Raceway originated from a WWII B-17 training base known as Hendricks Field. Since 1952, Sebring has hosted the 12-hour classic that has annually attracted the world’s finest cars and drivers. The demanding 3.74-mile circuit is considered among the toughest tracks in the world.
“Sebring International Raceway and Chevrolet are proud partners, and our fans are Corvette fans,” said Wayne Estes, President and General Manager of Sebring International Raceway. “It is most fitting that Corvette will pace the field for the 65th running of America’s classic sports car race.”
Video-The Hood-GM Powertrain Performance & Racing Centre
GM's all-new Powertrain Performance and Racing Centre provides state of the art development and testing facilities to prepare its teams for the multitude of race series in which it competes, including NASCAR, IndyCar, IMSA and more. Bringing together engine builders, engineers and a variety of other support staff, the centre is a vital hub for the Cadillac & Chevrolet racing teams at General Motors. Mobil 1 The Grid travelled to Detroit, Michigan to find out more.
Doug Fehan is reaching out to us diehard Corvette Fans and hopes we will support his cause.
Corvette fans, I think we should all join in to help this great cause that Doug Fehan has outlined on the website, (see Link below). In addition to your contribution to help homeless pets and military veterans you will receive an on-line "discount book" that has coupons for literally thousands of great discounts on restaurants, hotels and stuff we all frequent and use. It is a win-win deal all the way around. So, take a look and let's get behind Doug's efforts.
Doug Fehan is reaching out to us diehard Corvette Fans and hopes we will support his cause.
That's very vague on which groups are getting the money. I'm all for animal rescue, but I won't support sham organizations like HSUS, PETA, Grey2K, etc.
Here is a video about the organization. She mentions a couple of groups in the video:
Each bed we make, we will set aside a portion of funds to be used to build beds that will be donated to programs such as the SPCA, Wounded Warriors, and other very deserving veterans and animal rescue organizations. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/c...nd-beds-dogs#/
More boost for Ferrari and BMW. Less power and a little more weight for BMW and some fuleing changes to coincide. No changes to the Ford and Corvette.
Not sure the Ferrari changes were the best idea, but all else seems ok.
For two side notes.
1 - They've specified gearing for the Caddy DPis. I don't like going down this road, but at a track like Long Beach, I guess I get why they did it. Prefer they left well enough alone, some cars are just going to be better at some tracks than others.
2 - BMW is the lightest GTLM car, but has way more fuel capacity than everyone else, and was given more to go along with the boost increase. That thing really must be a brick.
Television Broadcast Saturday April 8, 2017
US:
US:
Live on Fox Channel
Live on Fox Sports Go App with FS1 authentication from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. https://www.foxsportsgo.com/
01-31-2017, 06:18 PM
Missed the Rolex 24 Hour race?
