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Team Pasty Muncher takes on the world[rFactor & GTR2]
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Maxkarter
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By the time the pit stop is over I'll be able to nick my number back too!
Stephen Bailey
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The Le Mans Series
The Le Mans Series (LMS) is a European sports car racing endurance series based around the 24 Hours of Le Mans race and run by the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO). The series was originally named the Le Mans Endurance Series, but changed its name prior to the 2006 season.
It is similar to the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) based in the United States and Canada that has been running with ACO backing since 1999, but is run by IMSA. It is also seen as a rebirth of the European Le Mans Series (ELMS) which was created by IMSA and the ACO, but only ran in 2001. LMS champions and runners up in all four categories receive an automatic entry to the following year's Le Mans 24 Hour Race.
The ACO, seeing the success of the American Le Mans Series but not completely satisfied with the fact that IMSA did not fully comply with the ACO's regulations in order to help attract privateer teams, as well as the failure of the FIA Sportscar Championship to succeed in Europe, decided that a series run by themselves would be a better alternative for Europe. The ACO would instead attempt to attract factory backed teams with longer endurance races than ALMS and FIA SCC ran, but less races in a season to help keep costs down. The series would also be European based instead of international, thus it could be closer to the factories of a large number of sportscar teams to help attract them to the series. Winners of the LMES championship would go on to earn automatic entries in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, similar to the American Le Mans Series.
The History
The series was initially previewed in an open race run under the LMES banner in 2003 at the 1000km of Le Mans, a one-off event before the season started in 2004.
For the 2004 Le Mans Series season the series participated in four events, including resurrecting classic races like the 1000km Monza, 1000km Nürburgring, and the Spa 1000 km. A large number of competitors turned out, making the racing very exciting.
2005 saw the series expand to a five race format with the addition of the Istanbul Racing Circuit.
From Wikipedia
The new season
This year, the Le Mans series will run to a five hour time limit and 1000km distance. Whichever comes first will be the end of the race.
The entry list currently stands at 33 entries. LMP1 has 8 cars entered, with the clear favourites being Peugeot Sport with the extremely quick diesel engined Peugeot 908. No doubt Oreca and Creation will push them on pace every now and then, but aslong as the Peugeot stays reliable then the rest of the LMP1 class will be hard pushed to stay with them.
LMP2 could well be all about the Porsche RS Spyder. The car has been proven to be extremely quick in the American Le Mans Series, taking a number of overall race wins against the LMP1 Audi R10 TDI. It's highly unlikely to be able to manage that in the LMS, as the LMP2 class rules in this series aren't so "friendly" but for sure it will be very quick in its own class.
GT1 is sure to be a hard fought contest, with all four cars in class having won races all around the world.
Much like GT1, GT2 will be very tight, if anything it will be even tighter. All the cars are very evenly matched. GT2 also boasts the most entries in the series with 11 cars set to battle it out.
LMP1
Oreca Matmut 5 Courage-Oreca LC70
Oreca Matmut 6 Courage-Oreca LC70
Peugeot Sport 7 Peugeot 908 HDI FAP
Peugeot Sport 8 Peugeot 908 HDI FAP
Creation Autosportif 9 Creation CA07
Charouz Racing System 15 Lola B07
Quifel ASM 40 Lola B05/40
Team LNT 46 Zytek 07S
LMP2
Essex 3 Porsche RS Spyder
Horag Racing 27 Porsche RS Spyder
Barazi Epsilon 32 Zytek 07S
Van Merksteijn Motorsport 34 Porsche RS Spyder
Saulnier Racing 35 Courage LC75
GT1
AMR Larbre Competition 50 Aston Martin DBR9
Team Pasty Muncher 52 Aston Martin DBR9
IPB Spartak Racing 55 Lamborghini Murchielago R-GT
Box Racing 61 Saleen S7-R
Team Modena 63 Aston Martin DBR9
PSI Experience 71 Chevrolet Corvette C5.R
Luc Alphand Adventures 72 Chevrolet Corvette C6.R
Luc Alphand Adventures 73 Chevrolet Corvette C6.R
Markland Racing 89 Chevrolet Corvette C6.R
GT2
JMB Racing 74 Ferrari F430
JMB Racing 75 Ferrari F430
IMSA Performance 76 Porsche 997 GT3-RSR
Seikel 77 Porsche 997 GT3-RSR
Villorba Corse 78 Ferrari F430
Seikel 79 Porsche 997 GT3-RSR
Team Icer Brakes 84 Ferrari F430
Seikel 88 Porsche 997 GT3-RSR
Farnbacher Racing 90 Ferrari F430
Farnbacher Racing 91 Porsche 997 GT3-RSR
JMB Racing 99 Ferrari F430
The Calender
Test day - Monza, Italy
Round 1 - Instanbul Park, Turkey
Round 2 - Zandvoort, Netherlands*
Round 3 - Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium
Round 4 - Nurburgring, Germany
Round 5 - Donington Park, Great Britain*
*To be confirmed
Points System
The points system is the same for each of the four classes:
1st - 10 points
2nd - 8 points
3rd - 6 points
4th - 5 points
5th - 4 points
6th - 3 points
7th - 2 points
8th - 1 point
The Le Mans Series (LMS) is a European sports car racing endurance series based around the 24 Hours of Le Mans race and run by the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO). The series was originally named the Le Mans Endurance Series, but changed its name prior to the 2006 season.
It is similar to the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) based in the United States and Canada that has been running with ACO backing since 1999, but is run by IMSA. It is also seen as a rebirth of the European Le Mans Series (ELMS) which was created by IMSA and the ACO, but only ran in 2001. LMS champions and runners up in all four categories receive an automatic entry to the following year's Le Mans 24 Hour Race.
The ACO, seeing the success of the American Le Mans Series but not completely satisfied with the fact that IMSA did not fully comply with the ACO's regulations in order to help attract privateer teams, as well as the failure of the FIA Sportscar Championship to succeed in Europe, decided that a series run by themselves would be a better alternative for Europe. The ACO would instead attempt to attract factory backed teams with longer endurance races than ALMS and FIA SCC ran, but less races in a season to help keep costs down. The series would also be European based instead of international, thus it could be closer to the factories of a large number of sportscar teams to help attract them to the series. Winners of the LMES championship would go on to earn automatic entries in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, similar to the American Le Mans Series.
The History
The series was initially previewed in an open race run under the LMES banner in 2003 at the 1000km of Le Mans, a one-off event before the season started in 2004.
For the 2004 Le Mans Series season the series participated in four events, including resurrecting classic races like the 1000km Monza, 1000km Nürburgring, and the Spa 1000 km. A large number of competitors turned out, making the racing very exciting.
2005 saw the series expand to a five race format with the addition of the Istanbul Racing Circuit.
From Wikipedia
The new season
This year, the Le Mans series will run to a five hour time limit and 1000km distance. Whichever comes first will be the end of the race.
The entry list currently stands at 33 entries. LMP1 has 8 cars entered, with the clear favourites being Peugeot Sport with the extremely quick diesel engined Peugeot 908. No doubt Oreca and Creation will push them on pace every now and then, but aslong as the Peugeot stays reliable then the rest of the LMP1 class will be hard pushed to stay with them.
LMP2 could well be all about the Porsche RS Spyder. The car has been proven to be extremely quick in the American Le Mans Series, taking a number of overall race wins against the LMP1 Audi R10 TDI. It's highly unlikely to be able to manage that in the LMS, as the LMP2 class rules in this series aren't so "friendly" but for sure it will be very quick in its own class.
GT1 is sure to be a hard fought contest, with all four cars in class having won races all around the world.
Much like GT1, GT2 will be very tight, if anything it will be even tighter. All the cars are very evenly matched. GT2 also boasts the most entries in the series with 11 cars set to battle it out.
LMP1
Oreca Matmut 5 Courage-Oreca LC70
Oreca Matmut 6 Courage-Oreca LC70
Peugeot Sport 7 Peugeot 908 HDI FAP
Peugeot Sport 8 Peugeot 908 HDI FAP
Creation Autosportif 9 Creation CA07
Charouz Racing System 15 Lola B07
Quifel ASM 40 Lola B05/40
Team LNT 46 Zytek 07S
LMP2
Essex 3 Porsche RS Spyder
Horag Racing 27 Porsche RS Spyder
Barazi Epsilon 32 Zytek 07S
Van Merksteijn Motorsport 34 Porsche RS Spyder
Saulnier Racing 35 Courage LC75
GT1
AMR Larbre Competition 50 Aston Martin DBR9
Team Pasty Muncher 52 Aston Martin DBR9
IPB Spartak Racing 55 Lamborghini Murchielago R-GT
Box Racing 61 Saleen S7-R
Team Modena 63 Aston Martin DBR9
PSI Experience 71 Chevrolet Corvette C5.R
Luc Alphand Adventures 72 Chevrolet Corvette C6.R
Luc Alphand Adventures 73 Chevrolet Corvette C6.R
Markland Racing 89 Chevrolet Corvette C6.R
GT2
JMB Racing 74 Ferrari F430
JMB Racing 75 Ferrari F430
IMSA Performance 76 Porsche 997 GT3-RSR
Seikel 77 Porsche 997 GT3-RSR
Villorba Corse 78 Ferrari F430
Seikel 79 Porsche 997 GT3-RSR
Team Icer Brakes 84 Ferrari F430
Seikel 88 Porsche 997 GT3-RSR
Farnbacher Racing 90 Ferrari F430
Farnbacher Racing 91 Porsche 997 GT3-RSR
JMB Racing 99 Ferrari F430
The Calender
Test day - Monza, Italy
Round 1 - Instanbul Park, Turkey
Round 2 - Zandvoort, Netherlands*
Round 3 - Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium
Round 4 - Nurburgring, Germany
Round 5 - Donington Park, Great Britain*
*To be confirmed
Points System
The points system is the same for each of the four classes:
1st - 10 points
2nd - 8 points
3rd - 6 points
4th - 5 points
5th - 4 points
6th - 3 points
7th - 2 points
8th - 1 point
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Amazing how you can still race Stevie after doing your leg in 
Stephen Bailey
Executive member
Amazing how you can still race Stevie after doing your leg in
It's improving now fool.
It's not so bad with this stuff anyway, because most of it is ankle movement.
Stephen Bailey
Executive member
Team Pasty Muncher Secures SROL WTCC Title
That's right, after an error in the standings it turns out that I've managed to secure the SROL WTCC title. I lead by 43 points and there are 43 points available at the final round, however, I have 7 wins and the second placed driver doesn't have any, so even if I scored no points, I'd win on amount of race wins!
Standings with two races to go
That's right, after an error in the standings it turns out that I've managed to secure the SROL WTCC title. I lead by 43 points and there are 43 points available at the final round, however, I have 7 wins and the second placed driver doesn't have any, so even if I scored no points, I'd win on amount of race wins!
Standings with two races to go
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Maxkarter
Battrick Tournament Host
Is it just me or has this been neglected Steve?
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