Le Mans Entrants Down Due to Economy

If you want to make a small fortune in racing, start with a big one.

If your big fortune became small on its own, well...

 

Going to be one of the great Le Mans, imho.

A real manufacturers' battle with scores to be settled.
Reserves for all classes.
LMP1

No Team Car
1 Audi Sport Team Joest Audi R15
3 Audi Sport Team Joest Audi R15
2 Audi Sport North America Audi R15
14 Kolles Audi R10
15 Kolles Audi R10
7 Team Peugeot Total Peugeot 908
8 Team Peugeot Total Peugeot 908
9 Peugeot Sport Total Peugeot 908
17 Pescarolo Sport Peugeot 908
16 Pescarolo Sport Pescarolo Judd
007 Aston Martin Racing Lola Aston Martin
009 Aston Martin Racing Lola Aston Martin
008 AMR Eastern Europe Lola Aston Martin
13 Speedy Racing Team Sebah Lola Aston Martin
10 Team ORECA Matmut AIM Courage-ORECA AIM
11 Team ORECA Matmut AIM Courage-ORECA AIM
6 Team LNT Ginetta Zytek
23 Strakka Racing Ginetta Zytek
12 Signature Plus Courage Judd
20 Epsilon Euskadi Epsilon Euskadi Judd
4 Creation Autosportif Creation Judd


Full Entry List-
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/73437

Entries down, only means a shorter list of guys who don't get to race.
Where the financial situation is hurting is the series, not the feature races.
Both LMS and ALMS are light fields so far. Twas always going to be a transition year though. So if it had to happen maybe its better this year than next.
We get a memorable 24 Hours this year what ever the future holds.

 

totally agree with you - this is going to be the best 24h in a long time and for LMS too - what economic turmoil?!?!?!

I'd hardly call the LMS field "light" with some 52 entrants - Sebring is VERY LIGHT with only 27 entries and I think ALMS may be doing good to see 20+ cars for most of the season.

Carol

 

Carol
Yes bad choice of words and sloppy posting to equate the two series situations.
LMS would've been stronger but is still well supported.

Think we all expected GT2 to carry ALMS interest through this season but the circumstances dealt that a heavy blow.
Time for all the ALMS family to gather together and have a good time at each round even if the fields are light.

 

They still have a sizable reserve list for the ACO event this year, so it can't be that bad.

Agree it is going to be gladiatorial at the front between the LMP1 cars!