[LM24 Race] 2014 24 Hours of Le Mans Entry List Thread

[nobster]

Originally Posted by Gingers4Justice

Like the look of that Ligier in that livery, and I've always liked the sound of that HPD V6, though I seem to be in a minority with that one.

Looking forward to see it.

And with decent drivers it can be up front in class, Ho pin Tung is not a world beater but ok.

[GTfour]

Personally, I am very, very curious and excited about the new Ligier. I can't wait to see it have a go at the track that it's build for. They might be able to surprise us...
I mean, they must've put quite some mileage on this new car, in the mean time?

[andy_b]

Originally Posted by Aysedasi

So, any more info regarding the remaining race seats?

And has anyone seen the garage allocation for this year yet?

Has been decided but havent seen a list yet. A couple of teams have emailed me their garages for the Spotter Guide

[Simmi]

I hoped this would happen - Jann Mardenborough and Mark Shulzhitsky announced in the #35 Ligier Oak alongside Alex Brundle.

http://www.dailysportscar.com/?p=29831

That would be the de-facto Nissan backed LMP2 car. A very exciting entry and a great opportunity for those guys - especially considering what's coming next year.

Congrats and also fair play to Nissan for developing and then backing the GT Academy guys.

[bella]

yeah, i think in some quarters of the internet there's a tendency to look for a way to criticise nissan for something, anything to do with the gt academy concept. in the real world, there's a couple of guys who are very good who wouldn't be competing at anywhere near the level they are now without nissan's backing.

[nobster]

Originally Posted by Simmi

I hoped this would happen - Jann Mardenborough and Mark Shulzhitsky announced in the #35 Ligier Oak alongside Alex Brundle.

http://www.dailysportscar.com/?p=29831

That would be the de-facto Nissan backed LMP2 car. A very exciting entry and a great opportunity for those guys - especially considering what's coming next year.

Congrats and also fair play to Nissan for developing and then backing the GT Academy guys.

great line up indeed, nice to see more and more quality drivers getting anounced last few days.

[Deleted]

Inevitable giant NISSAN stickers coming up, likely covering most of the car...

#35 was listed as Oak "Morgan" Pescarolo before - and still is on the entry list - so they have switched the chassis to the new coupe. Meaning there will be 3 of those "Ligiers" this year (2x Oak + TDS)?

[nobster]

Is it even possible to change chassis?

[Simmi]

I think whoever's job it is to keep the public-facing entry lists spick and span isn't the best person to rely on for info. It's been confirmed for quite a while there will be 3 Ligier's in the race.

Fair enough Nissan will brand up the car - but it goes a long way to showing that P2 does hold the potential for works involvement despite the pro-am formula. No need for it to be all pros if you play the game with the line-ups.

[Deleted]

Originally Posted by Simmi

I think whoever's job it is to keep the public-facing entry lists spick and span isn't the best person to rely on for info. It's been confirmed for quite a while there will be 3 Ligier's in the race.

Really? I do think this was the first time (?) it was officially announced, I remember reading past Oak press releases and they kept mentioning the old open top car (=USCC entrant) and maybe adding third coupe.

[wewantourdarbyback]

Dunno about branding, the press release contains this line

The no. 35 Ligier JS P2-Nissan will also carry the colours of the Russian partner G-Drive.

[Simmi]

I think the P1 programme will have G-Drive branding and you have to think that having a Russian driver like Shulzhitsky can't hurt either.

[Deleted]

That P1 programme doesn't exist until they announce it.

Anyway, regarding those "Ligier" Nissan logos, they are here but surprisingly not as massive as one would have expected, like in DW. Probably not final though with sponsors missing...

[bella]

berthon confirmed with murphy for imola and le mans:
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/113941

hopefully for the team his pace at paul ricard wasn't just a sponsor run. that's one heck of a quick driver line-up.

(though having said that, dsc seem to think that kapadia is doing imola in the same seat...)

[lemansfan]

Originally Posted by Aysedasi

So, any more info regarding the remaining race seats?

And has anyone seen the garage allocation for this year yet?

http://www.endurance-info.com/fr/52956/

Just found it

[Simmi]

Federico Leo completes Pro car for RAM Racing - http://www.dailysportscar.com/?p=30083

Would have preferred James Rossiter but good luck to the team.

[wewantourdarbyback]

Originally Posted by Chiana

That P1 programme doesn't exist until they announce it.

Anyway, regarding those "Ligier" Nissan logos, they are here but surprisingly not as massive as one would have expected, like in DW. Probably not final though with sponsors missing...

That's just a testing livery, they haven't even painted over the metal on the splitter.

[Deleted]

Originally Posted by wewantourdarbyback

That's just a testing livery, they haven't even painted over the metal on the splitter.

Yes but the Nissan stickers on side and on top of cockpit are new



Hopefully they'll utilize the usual Oak pink & black, it's one of the few personal prototype liveries. It'd be a shame if not

[wewantourdarbyback]

With G-Drive involved I would imagine it will be black and orange like the WEC entry. Nissan will probably take up the sidepods with G-Drive written on the BHF. Similar to signatech when they took on Ordonez in 2011 but with the added orange.

[KA]

Hardly a surprise, but Patrick Long now confirmed in the Dempsey/Proton Porsche

http://sportscar365.com/lemans/leman...y-for-le-mans/

[chernaudi]

Something about the pit arrangements--it always seems that Audi have close to the last pits prior to the new garages, while Peugeot and more recently Toyota have opted for the area of the pits closest to pit in.

[chernaudi]

Originally Posted by wewantourdarbyback

That's just a testing livery, they haven't even painted over the metal on the splitter.

That looks like foil tape of some type all over the car. This is also the higher downforce bodywork for sprint races (larger twin dive planes, and what appears to be taped over louvers on the inner face of the front fenders).

[Simmi]

Only nine seats left it seems.

[Victor_RO]

Originally Posted by chernaudi

Something about the pit arrangements--it always seems that Audi have close to the last pits prior to the new garages, while Peugeot and more recently Toyota have opted for the area of the pits closest to pit in.

As far as I'm aware, every time Audi had a factory car (since and including 1999) they were in those pits. Peugeot were in the middle of the pitlane in 2007 and 2008 though, the first garages were Pescarolo for a long long time.

[Beetle]

Originally Posted by Simmi

Only nine seats left it seems.

I'm going by way of the 2014 24 Hours of Le Mans Wikipedia page, where there are 18 open seats remaining. But quite a few of those are more or less confirmed.

#29 Pegasus Racing: last seat should be Jonathan Coleman given he will have driven the opening two ELMS rounds for the team after Imola.

#33 OAK Team Asia: should be Cong Fu Cheng... massively experienced Chinese driver for what apparently will be an all-Chinese lineup. Adderly Fong is also in the back of my mind.

#41 Greaves: Matt McMurry more or less confirmed

#42 Greaves: hard to pick. Me thinks Munemann, Latif, and Christian Zugel.

#58 Sofrev: Pons and Ayari

#60 AF Corse: Raffaele Gianmaria and Lorenzo Case, by virtue of the 6hrs of Spa

#61 AF Corse: Cioci and Venturi

#62 AF Corse: Blank and Bachelier

#72 SMP: no idea

#98 AMR: Lamy and Nygaard