[ELMS] ELMS 2014 Season

[Koenigsegg]

Originally Posted by carbon_titanium

The only american team that owns (or maybe owned watching what remained of the car after le mans crash) a lola b12/80 judd is HWM.

It's an ex Gulf Racing Middle East Lola B12/80.

[pablocomics]

I thought that those Lolas was bought by DKR engineering, they loosed their 2 Lola B11 on a fire... Probably I am wrong

[The Badger]

Originally Posted by carbon_titanium

The only two teams that realisticly could field a private C6.R are larbre competition and V8 racing.
The only american team that owns (or maybe owned watching what remained of the car after le mans crash) a lola b12/80 judd is HWM.

HMW is a deal done with Status GP .

Teddy Yip owns the car , and the team (Status) is owned by Kennedy and Gallagher and remains Irish owned .

[MJ_N_09]

Originally Posted by carbon_titanium

The only two teams that realisticly could field a private C6.R are larbre competition and V8 racing.
The only american team that owns (or maybe owned watching what remained of the car after le mans crash) a lola b12/80 judd is HWM.

Larbre already confirmed a C7.R, unless they're leasing their C6.R to someone else. It's most likely V8 racing....or the longshot would be Callaway. Maybe a former team who ran Vettes in the past restarting operations? (LAA, PK Carsport, DKR, Is that one Exim Bank Chinese team still around?)

[The Badger]

What about Agusta Racing . I know Copelli is lookin , and if Rocky Agusta has the will and the beanz ......

[carbon_titanium]

Originally Posted by MJ_N_09

Larbre already confirmed a C7.R, unless they're leasing their C6.R to someone else. It's most likely V8 racing....or the longshot would be Callaway. Maybe a former team who ran Vettes in the past restarting operations? (LAA, PK Carsport, DKR, Is that one Exim Bank Chinese team still around?)

Exim bank team china was the SRT corvette + the DKR corvette during the late 2011 season, SRT is the V8 racing team. If memory helps, there should be 4 private C6R so far: one 2010 and one 2011 specs used by Larbre during 2011 ILMC (#50), 2012 WEC and 2013 Le Mans (#70) and two 2012 specs used by Larbre during 2013 WEC and by V8 racing in some races of 2013 int gt-open.

[SpikerJack]

Fillon statement about c7r from sportscar365.com:

Will we see the Corvette C7.R in GTE-Am this year?
“The regulations state that for an exception to the rule, all manufacturers must unanimously approve, which was not the case. So things remain as they were. This is also the case for the European Le Mans Series.”

[Victor_RO]

Which means, bluntly, no C7.R in the ELMS until next year.

[TF110]

Enter the gte-pro class! Just to get use to the Vette imo.

[Victor_RO]

Originally Posted by TF110

Enter the gte-pro class! Just to get use to the Vette imo.

There's no GTE-Pro in the ELMS, don't forget.

[KA]

Barwell Motorsport running a BMW in GTC as 'Team Russia by Barwell' for Leo Machitski, Timur Sardarov and Jonny Cocker

http://www.endurance-info.com/en/tea...-championship/

[PointDSM]

Great to see Cocker in something with an actual engine in it!

[Coach Ep]

First run for Pegasus OAK LMP2, looks great in that blue!

http://www.endurance-info.com/fr/pre...egasus-racing/

[Canada ALMS fan]

I have always liked the lines of that car, the blue does look great. Hate to admit it but the OAK pink livery has really grown on me too.
The ELMS grid looks to be quite promising this year. Hard to believe after 2012 when they were down to 6 cars at Petit Le Mans.

[Rodger Davies]

Oak's black and pink is a modern day classic, I don't think it gets the recognition it deserves but it will be memorable for me for a long time after it's gone. Which hopefully won't be for a while!

[kurski]

European F3 race-winner Harry Tincknell will join the Jota Sport LMP2 team for this year's ELMS and Le Mans 24 Hours.

[Victor_RO]

http://www.endurance-info.com/fr/le-...ak-automotive/

Thiriet by TDS Racing, one of the stalwart Oreca 03 teams, switches to the Morgan/Onroak LMP2 for 2014.

Now there's a bit of a shocker.

[Coach Ep]

Absolutely!

So now we have 3 teams that´ll run OAKs/Morgans in LMP2 this year:
- TDS Thiriet
- Morand
- Pegasus

Am I leaving someone out?

Good to see the Oreca vs other chassis ratio more balanced.

[Pontlieue]

Wow, I didn't expect that. I really like the variety of chassis in ELMS this year:

3-4x Oreca 03 (Murphy, Race Performance, Boutsen Ginion, maybe Alpine)
3x Morgan (Thiriet, Morand, Pegasus)
1-2x Zytek (Jota, maybe Greaves)
2x HPD (Woodard, OREX)
1x Tiga (Tiga Race Cars)
And maybe selected events for the Pilbeam and the Adess.

And I don't even think I remembered them all.

EDIT: The endurance-info article mentions that other surprising announcements from Thiriet by TDS will follow before the start of the season. What could those be. My guess would be either their third driver, or maybe selected WEC rounds.

[Victor_RO]

Didn't they say they had an as-of-yet unannounced Platinum driver signed up for the full season?

[Coach Ep]

TDS has not specified which OnRoak-developed chassis they will utilize. While the Morgan LMP2 is readily available to customers, the build of its new closed-top Ligier prototype continues, with a scheduled debut for the Six Hours of Spa FIA WEC race in May.

It’s unclear whether OnRoak’s new partnership with TDS could result in an earlier debut.

from http://sportscar365.com/elms/thiriet...-lmp2-chassis/

[FstrthnU]

http://sportscar365.com/elms/race-pe...anck-mailleux/

Race Performance to return to the ELMS with Frank Mailleux

[Beetle]

Originally Posted by FstrthnU

http://sportscar365.com/elms/race-pe...anck-mailleux/

Race Performance to return to the ELMS with Frank Mailleux

Good choice. I hope that the "well-known driver" is Jeroen Bleekemolen, but that's only likely if the 3rd driver is only for Le Mans, and nothing else, given Bleekemolen's TUSC commitments with Ben Keating.

It wasn't quite clear in the article... I assume Michel Frey is the 2nd driver?

[Simmi]

Originally Posted by Beetle

It wasn't quite clear in the article... I assume Michel Frey is the 2nd driver?

Correct. I hope they up their game livery-wise this year.

[Mike E]

Quite right. It looks like that car was painted by a child.