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Le Mans Test Day 2012 - Sunday 3rd June
http://www.lemans.org/wpphpFichiers/...-mans-2012.pdf
Entry list for the test day, 3 cars are FLM cars with no teams or drivers named. The other cars over the entry list - a second Lotus Lola, a second Level 5 HPD, Loeb's team and the Pro IMSA Porsche. No GreenGT on the list...
EDIT: Some notes on the driver front: David Heinemeier Hansson in the second OAK car, Marc Lieb and Wolf Henzler in the #80 Lizards and Patrick Long and Marco Holzer in the #79, no Waltrip in the 61 Ferrari.
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16 Apr 2012, 12:32
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Thought I'd split off Victor_RO's Test Day Entry List post to create a new thread.
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16 Apr 2012, 13:10
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Yep definitely worthy of a thread. As Victor says some interesting moves on the driver front.
To be honest I wouldn't put it past that second Lotus to sneak onto the grid so it makes sense that they will be there.
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16 Apr 2012, 13:12
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I wonder how many of the current Test Day line-ups are actually final, the driver shuffles in the Porsche teams are a bit peculiar. However... it's only the Test Day, so drivers can actually drive and be entered in more than one car.
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16 Apr 2012, 13:29
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Victor_RO
I wonder how many of the current Test Day line-ups are actually final, the driver shuffles in the Porsche teams are a bit peculiar. However... it's only the Test Day, so drivers can actually drive and be entered in more than one car.
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Yeah I was just thinking the same thing about the Porsches. Looks like Lizards took two guys out of the Felbermayr car. Always good to have experienced guys in each car to help set it up.
I don't know a great deal about Marco Cioci but he looks to have jumped up into the 2nd Pro 458 for AF Corse. ProSpeed aren't there as it is too much of an ask to have a team in place with the Blancpain round at Silverstone the day before.
Will be a lot of drivers making the trip across from that. Seems like Matt Griffin is confirmed in the #81 which is cool to see. Still quite a few seats up for grabs in the lower classes.
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16 Apr 2012, 22:47
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So after bringing it up on twitter it seems that drivers have to apply to be on the ACO list, and this is obviously a good indication that Liuzzi is looking for a drive. Hopefully he's got something lined up. I think he'd be a great addition to the endurance world.
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17 Apr 2012, 08:50
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Bit more info on the test day here:
http://www.lemans.org/en/news/stars-...uit-_6793.html
Couple of interesting bits. That article basically confirms what we all thought and that Sebastien Loeb Racing will enter the race next year.
It also appears that the Green GT WILL be there, albeit just doing some 'show' laps in between the two sessions. Looks like they are still targeting the 56th spot next season. Fair play to them for even planning to turn up.
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17 Apr 2012, 09:44
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Also, interesting tidbit concerning the race itself: driver line-ups must be confirmed to the ACO by May 9th.
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17 Apr 2012, 14:02
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Whose this Gates dude in the Murphy Proto chassis ?
Was there ever an Irish team entered at Le Mans before ? Now we got 2 of em .
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17 Apr 2012, 14:47
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Whose this Gates dude in the Murphy Proto chassis ?
Was there ever an Irish team entered at Le Mans before ? Now we got 2 of em .
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Think these will be the first and second ever Irish-registered squads yes.
He's been with the team in their previous iteration since 2010. Everything you wanted to know here:
http://www.rlrmotorsport.com/our-tea...r-barry-gates/
Can't believe he doesn't have a favourite film though!
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In case anyone is interested,the Nissan 'Delta' was at Snetterton today,looking very different but also very good,very quick for a 1600!
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17 Apr 2012, 15:39
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I might be wrong but I think Terence means the concept looks different to your average sportscar.
Saying that I'm sure we probably will see a few significant tweaks when it turns up at test day.
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17 Apr 2012, 16:29
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Yeah I was just thinking the same thing about the Porsches. Looks like Lizards took two guys out of the Felbermayr car. Always good to have experienced guys in each car to help set it up.
I don't know a great deal about Marco Cioci but he looks to have jumped up into the 2nd Pro 458 for AF Corse. .
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As you say, there seems to have been a bit of a driver shuffle going on with the Porsche factory driver allocations for the test.
IIRC Cioci was third driver in the Beretta/Bertolini #71 Ferrari at Sebring as well, so maybe he's pulling 'double-duty' with AF Corse, doing the WEC rounds in that car, and the ELMS with Perazzini and Griffin in the 'Am' car?
I think AF's regular WEC 'Am' car is the Waltrip car, and the Perazzini car usually an ELMS entry? Having said that, I think he's in the Perazzini car on the Spa entry list...
If he was to swap back to the Perazzini car for Le Mans, it would be interesting to see who AF might put in with Beretta and Bertolini?
I don't know much about him either, other than his name seems to have been around various GT series for quite a while now- Italian GT, GT3, GT Open, LMS etc, usually (but not exclusively) in Ferraris
http://www.marcocioci.it/en/carriera/
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17 Apr 2012, 16:35
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This is the part where the optimist in me puts two and two together and sees Tonio Liuzzi land somewhere at AF Corse.
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