Story by ALMS Communications Photos by Zerin Dube Franck Montagny and Stephane Sarrazin gave Peugeot its first American Le Mans Series victory on Friday, winning a weather-shortened 12th annual Petit Le Mans powered by MAZDA6. Race officials, citing hazardous conditions due to torrential rains that fell at Road Atlanta just past the four-hour mark, called the race [...]
• Allan McNish, Dindo Capello thwarted as downpour ends race • Pair had led for the opening four hours before bad weather hit Allan McNish came tantalisingly close to a fourth successive Petit Le Mans victory as torrential rain brought the annual event to an early end. McNish and his co-driver Dindo Capello led the 1,000-mile race in their Audi R15 TDi for the opening four hours following...
Nicolas Minassian has claimed the LMP class pole position for tomorrows Petit Le Mans. Sister car, piloted by Franck Montagny, claims the front row as well when he qualified only .223 back from Minassian. The Audi’s of Dindo Capello and Lucas Luhr qualified 3rd and 4th respectively. What... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Filed under: Motorsports , Government/Legal , Renault Nelsinho Piquet at the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix The FIA is always sticking its nose around, sniffing around for some trouble. So, when the motorsport governing body opened a new investigation into the Renault F1 team, frankly we weren't all that surprised or interested. The probe centered around claims that the team instructed its since-departed...
Welcome to Sonoma, where sadly your humble host - despite planning to the contrary - is not in fact LIVE from Infineon Raceway. Instead I am firmly ensconced in a giant green La-Z-Boy here in sweltering Arizona sipping on a glass of cheap Cabernet. Not the full effect, but close. Speaking of full effect, we will not be starting with the full field today after a practice accident yesterday involving...
The time has come for us to follow our intrepid driver Franck Montagny as he takes to the wheel of yet another series. We have followed him through F1 tests, Champ Car, Le Mans and now IRL. We are so unbelievably clueless about IRL it is actually quite amusing. Yesterday, we saw qualifying and Montagny will [...]
The unification of open-wheel racing now includes the driver pool. With Franck Montagny participating in his first IndyCar Series race this weekend at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, Calif., the starting lineup is nearly balanced between drivers who were in IndyCar and Champ Car as of April 20, 2008, the last day there were two series.
Montreal may really be nearing a deal to secure the return of the Canadian Grand Prix. Bernie Ecclestone has made noise about the race’s return to the calendar, and now Montreal mayor Gerald Tremblay says chances of the race being staged in June 2010 are looking “very good.” The FIA’s official calendar will be revealed in September. Meanwhile, the other track which recently...