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    Thumbs up LMS opener 6 Heures Du Castellet

    yes the season opener of the LMS 6 hour race at the Paul Ricard track.
    There was little suspense in the LM GTE category. In the opening minutes of qualifying, the very experienced Gianmaria Bruni bagged pole in the no. 51 AF Corse-entered Ferrari F458 Italia in 1m 58.522s.
    Third position in GTEam for Giuseppe Perazzini-Marco Cioci-Stephane Lemeret on Ferrari F430 and sixth time for Robert Kauffman-Rui Aguas-Giuseppe Cirò on Ferrari F430.

    it is on Motors TV tomorrow.
    Last edited by Rob; 3rd April 2011 at 08:54. Reason: got wrong tv station
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    Rebellion Racing on pole for 6 Heures Du Castellet
    BY MARCEL TEN CAAT ⋅ APRIL 2, 2011

    Rebellion Racing will start from pole position in tomorrow’s 6 Heures Du Castellat after setting the fastest lap in qualifying this afternoon. The Swiss driver was the only driver capable of doing a 1:46, securing the pole position on his last flying lap.

    Jani’s fastest lap time was also the fastest time set in all sessions this weekend. Pescarolo Team’s Emmanuel Collard secured his place on the front row of the start grid by posting a 1:47.025, 0.242 seconds slower than the Rebellion Racing Lola B10/60 Coupé Toyota. Olivier Pla claimed the third place by setting a 1:47.231

    The new Aston Martin AMR-One also took part in the qualifying session, but with limited running so far the team completed a total of eight laps primarily used as further testing of the car. Stefan Mücke posted the fastest lap of the car, a 1:52.267.

    In the LMP2 class it was a Nissan 1-2-3. TDS Racing’s Matthias Beche lapped the track in 1:48.928, a lap time that puts the team’s Orea 03 Nissan in fifth on the grid for tomorrow’s race. The Boutsen Energy Racing Oreca 03 Nissan was second quickest, albeit 0.764 seconds behind the #46. The Greaves Motorsport Zytek Z11SN Nissan completed the Nissan top three, with Tom Kimber-Smith securing the Nissan clean sweep.

    Hardly unexpected the two HPD ARX-01d were not the quickest cars out on the track in qualifying. The RML car did not even complete a flying lap and returned to the pit after hitting problems just after it had started its first flying lap. The Strakka Racing car joined late, but even on a less crowded track Danny Watts was unable to impress and finished last of the cars that posted a lap time.

    Hope Racing’s Nicolas Marroc secured pole position for Hope Racing in the Formula Le Mans class. The #91 Oreca FLM 09 was around four tenths of a second quicker than the Genoa Racing and Neil Garner Motorsport cars.

    Porsche was blown away in LM GTE Pro as the Ferrari’s were finally on the pace in qualifying trim. Gianmaria Bruni took the pole position for AF Corse, the Italian setting a 1:58.522 in his Ferrari F458 Italia. Tomas Enge in the young Driver AMR Aston Martin Vantage was just a quarter of a second slower and finished qualifying in second place, while Rob Bell put the Dunlop-shod JMW Motorsport Ferrari F458 Italia in third. Vilander and Simonsen taking fourth and fifth for Ferrari. Marco Holzer was the first Porsche driver in sixth place.

    Nicolas Armindo secured pole position in the GTE Am category. His lap time of 1:59.370 puts him in front of two out of three GTE Pro Porsches. Second in class was the Team Felbermayr-Proton #88, almost a second slower than the IMSA Performance Matmut Porsche #67. Marco Cioci took third in the AF Corse Ferrari F430 GT2.

    http://www.planetlemans.com/2011/04/...-du-castellet/
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    Pescarolo makes victorious return

    By Gary Watkins Sunday, April 3rd 2011, 17:25 GMT

    Sportscar legend Henri Pescarolo's team made a triumphant return to racing after a season away with victory in the opening round of the Le Mans Series at Paul Ricard.

    Pescarolo Team's eponymous Judd-powered LMP1, driven by Christophe Tinseau, Julien Jousse and Emmanuel Collard, came from the back of the grid (where it had been demoted after post-qualifying scrutineering) to first place in fewer than 20 laps and maintained its position at the top of the leaderboard for the remainder of the six-hour race.

    Collard, who was celebrating his 40th birthday on race day, crossed the line one lap clear of the Rebellion Racing Lola-Toyota shared by Jean-Christophe Boullion and Andrea Belicchi.

    Collard said: "This is a great result after one year without racing."

    The Pescarolo had a trouble-free run on a day when its rivals in the poorly-supported LMP1 class all ran into problems.

    Boullion spun the Rebellion car early in the race when one of the coupe's doors came open at the penultimate corner. A damaged hinge resulted in vital seconds being lost at its next two pitstops, dropping the car off the lead lap by the end of the second hour.

    The second Rebellion entry, which pole-winner Neel Jani shared with Nicolas Prost, lost 10 laps early on with a paddle-shift problem. The ASM Zytek lost a similar amount of time after Olivier Pla sustained a puncture, which resulted in rear bodywork damage.

    Aston Martin Racing used the race as a test for its new AMR-One. The car driven by Darren Turner, Stefan Mucke and Harold Primat made a number of long stops, but returned to the track for the final half hour to take the chequered flag despite covering only half the number of laps of the winning car.

    Third place went to the best of the LMP2 runners, the Greaves Motorsport Zytek driven by Tom Kimber-Smith, Karim Ojjeh and Gary Chalandon. Second in class was claimed by the AF Corse-run Pecom Racing Lola-Judd driven by Pierre Kaffer, Matias Russo and Luis Perez Companc.

    The JMW Motorsport squad claimed GTE class honours on its first outing back in the Ferrari fold. Rob Bell and James Walker triumphed in the team's new 458 Italia ahead of the similar AF Corse car shared by Gianmaria Bruni and Giancarolo Fisichella.

    The four factory-supported 911 GT3-RSRs run by the Felbermayr-Proton, ProSpeed and Imsa teams were all damaged in a start-line accident. This resulted from the green lights being shown on the startline gantry when the decision for the course car to undertake another parade lap had already been taken, causing confusion as some drivers accelerated while others waited behind the course car.

    http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/90432
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    happy for the Pescarolo team, that is a well deserved win. Really really happy. And JMW winning the GTE class win with the new 458!!! yes yes yes great day all round.
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    Hey Rob, did u check the results of this race? Full story in Veloce today...Youre hip to that site/mag?
    458 won places 1 thru 4..in GTE Porsche won but 430's came 2, 3, 4..
    So it was a good day for Ferrari sports cars.
    You can read it online at their site...nice pix too.

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    458's 1st 4 places in GT2
    GTE Proton Prosche, 430's 2 thru 4th...

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    Heeeyyyy..Fisi won Spa GT2 in the Ferrari!!!!!!

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    yeah it was Ferrari 1-2. Really good race.
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