[LM24] New Le Mans Film?

[rdjones]

This just in from DailySportscar.com

AUTOSPORT are running an interesting story today. The gist of it is that Jean-Paul Driot’s DAMS team will enter a pair of cars in this year’s race, a Lola B98 / 10 Judd (their ’99 car, leased back from FIA SCC runner Bob Berridge) and a Panoz LMP. The cars will be used for filming during the race (assuming that they receive entries of course, which is an interesting predicament for the ACO), and will return in August to wrap up the shooting.

There will be two sets of bodywork for each car, so that it appears that each is part of a two car team. The comic book hero Michel Vaillant will ‘race’ the Lola, while the ‘bad guys’ will be in the Panoz. Jean-Marc Gounon is seen in the ‘good guys’ car Le Mans in ’99.

No drivers have been announced yet. Presumably, anyone interested in a seat would need to be sure that he wasn’t in line for a conventional entry…although a role in a film that could be a classic, in the same way as the McQueen original, does have its attractions.

Having also read the Autosport this week, this film could be quite good, we will have to wait and see what happens.