2017 Le Mans Cup - 12h of Le Castellet in preparation

Rated · Post by **Rated** » 18 Jul 2014, 21:25

Team name : ICE-3 Racing
Nationality : German
Class : GT

Car : Ferrari 474 GTS
Car Number : 26
Rounds : All

Driver 1
Name: Marco Wittmann
Nationality: German
Qualifying Driver: Yes
Tier: RL - (Gold?)

Driver 2
Name: Davide Rigon
Nationality: Italian
Qualifying Driver: No
Tier: RL - (Gold?)

Driver 3
Name: Joao Cavalcanti
Nationality: Brazilian
Qualifying Driver: No
Tier: Silver

We will wait for Wittmann and Rigon to answer us. I hope the entry is okay.

Post by **Ataxia** » 19 Jul 2014, 10:29

With Leandro Moreira heading up the Pulsar GT-R entry, his seat will go to Dane Daniel Kristiansen. He will be a Bronze driver.

Normal32 · Post by **Normal32** » 20 Jul 2014, 02:35

pi314159 wrote:
Here is a small overview of entry list spots remaining:
Paul Ricard - 3
Silverstone - 0
Spa-Francorchamps - 7
Le Mans - 2
Monza - 0
Sao Paulo - 1
Indianapolis - 3
Fuji - 3
Sepang - 2
Adelaide - 2

If possible can i enter a LMP2 or a GT entry

pi314159 · Post by **pi314159** » 22 Jul 2014, 19:33

Normal32 wrote:If possible can i enter a LMP2 or a GT entry

You can, but you would have to skip Monza and Silverstone.

Post by **Miguel98** » 22 Jul 2014, 20:23

GT Entry:

Team Name: Lotto Racing
Car: 2017 Porsche 991
Car Number: 58

Driver #1 Name: Kevin Giovesi
Driver #1 Nationality: Italian
Qualifying Driver: No
Tier: Silver

Driver #2: Kim Sung Ri
Driver #2 Nationality: North Korea
Qualifying Driver: Yes
Tier Platinum: Silver

Driver #3: Miguel Rocha
Driver #3 Nationality: Portuguese
Qualifying Driver: No
Tier Platinum: Bronze

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 22 Jul 2014, 20:54

I will be amending my GT part-time entry as follows;

Team Name: Lavezzi Trueba Racing Team
CLASS: GT-Am / GT-Pro (Le Mans only)
TIER: Small Privateer
CAR: Ferrari 474 GTS
CAR 1 NUMBER: 28
EVENTS IN WHICH CAR 1 TAKES PART: Paul Ricard, Spa, Le Mans, Sepang, Adelaide

Driver #1 Name: Tristan Jung
Driver #1 Nationality: American
Qualifying Driver: Yes (except Le Mans)
Tier: Platinum

Driver #2 Name: Jari Kekkonen
Driver #2 Nationality: Finnish
Qualifying Driver: No
Tier: Platinum

PAUL RICARD, SPA, SEPANG, ADELAIDE
Driver #3 Name: Benoît Voeckler
Driver #3 Nationality: French
Qualifying Driver: No
Tier: Silver

LE MANS ONLY
Driver #3 Name: Giovanni Roda
Driver #3 Nationality: Italian
Qualifying Driver: Yes
Tier: Platinum

Normal32 · Post by **Normal32** » 22 Jul 2014, 21:54

pi314159 wrote:
Normal32 wrote:If possible can i enter a LMP2 or a GT entry

You can, but you would have to skip Monza and Silverstone.

edited post on page 8

CaptainGetz12 · Post by **CaptainGetz12** » 12 Aug 2014, 01:10

A continuity note:

Mclaren would probably not be using the MP4-12C in 2017, since they have since switched to the 650S GT3 for 2015 onwards in real life:

http://jalopnik.com/the-650s-gt3-is-mclarens-sinister-lightweight-hardcore-1596909845

If possible, can someone switch the Mclaren cars, and determine whether or not the stats are changed?

pi314159 · Post by **pi314159** » 12 Sep 2014, 07:15

This has been quite inactive over the last few weeks, but it's not dead, and I'm planning to start this series in early October. So please finalize your driver lineups until Sunday, 28th September, 10 PM CEST.

Cars with an uncomplete driver lineup by that time will be excluded from the 12 Hours of Le Castellet.

If I overlooked a request for a real-life driver, please remind me about that here in the thread. I'm sorry about the slightly chaotic management of the series so far. I know that the first post in this thread is real mess, and I'm going to sort that out as well over the next days.

Also, the idea that you have to pay for repairing your car has been scrapped for this season. You might want to adjust your lineup, since that means that you don't need to have financial reserves for eventual repair costs.

Pointrox · Post by **Pointrox** » 12 Sep 2014, 07:25

pi314159 wrote:This has been quite inactive over the last few weeks, but it's not dead, and I'm planning to start this series in early October. So please finalize your driver lineups until Sunday, 28th October, 10 PM CEST.

Or even September

pi314159 · Post by **pi314159** » 12 Sep 2014, 07:27

Pointrox wrote:
pi314159 wrote:This has been quite inactive over the last few weeks, but it's not dead, and I'm planning to start this series in early October. So please finalize your driver lineups until Sunday, 28th October, 10 PM CEST.

Or even September

Indeed, thanks for the correction.

Hermann95 · Post by **Hermann95** » 12 Sep 2014, 08:58

My lineup is finalised and AMR Loyer racing will of course buy two 2017 DB11's, because we need cars to go racing

the Masked Lapwing · Post by **the Masked Lapwing** » 12 Sep 2014, 09:21

ZimSport has a bit to do.

For the third LMP2 seat:
DRIVER NAME: JP Laurent
DRIVER NATIONALITY: American
QUALIFYING DRIVER (yes/no): No
DRIVER TIER: Silver

And for our Le Mans GT entry:

CAR: 2016 SRT Viper
NUMBER: 62

DRIVER NAME: Frank Zimmer
DRIVER NATIONALITY: AUS
QUALIFYING DRIVER (yes/no): Yes
DRIVER TIER: Platinum

DRIVER NAME: Henrik Dehn
DRIVER NATIONALITY: DEN
QUALIFYING DRIVER (yes/no): No
DRIVER TIER: Silver

For the third seat, I'd like to see if Douglas Mann wants to drive.

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 12 Sep 2014, 11:27

Given there's suddenly no need anymore for pay-drivers at NISMO, we'd dearly like Benoit Treluyer to return and slot into the lead car alongside long-standing team-mate Andre Lotterer. (He's a platinum level driver obviously!)

This means Dennis Mignolet will now become lead driver of the #23 alongside KazNak, but as for the third seat in that #23 car...we're now working on a solution. We will get back to you on that soon...

Peteroli34 · Post by **Peteroli34** » 12 Sep 2014, 18:12

As we dont need the cash for any crash damage Hunter Autosport will drop Companc and attempt to sign Nick Heidfeld (Platinum i believe). if successful the lineup will be as following

Car 80
Driver 1 - Christian Klien ( Qualifying Driver)
Diver 2- Nick Heidfeld
Driver 3 - Deanna McMahon

Car 81
Driver 1 - Tom Kimber-Smith (Qualifying Driver)
Driver 2 - Thomas Day
Driver 3 - Hamid Barmak

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 12 Sep 2014, 22:46

OK, that's it now, everything's been sorted out for the updated NISMO lineup;

Car 22
Driver 1 - Andre Lotterer (Qualifying Driver) [P]
Diver 2- Simon Redman [P]
Driver 3 - Benoit Treluyer [P]

Car 23
Driver 1 - Dennis Mignolet (Qualifying Driver) [P]
Driver 2 - Jari Kekkonen [P]
Driver 3 - Kazuki Nakajima [P]

Nessafox · Post by **Nessafox** » 13 Sep 2014, 00:33

As agreed to in the Toyota Reject Racing Series, Franck van Nifterick will take the free space

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 14 Sep 2014, 00:32

I can now also announce the completed lineup of the Trueba Racing Team Ferrari 474 part-time entry;

Car 28
Driver 1 - Giovanni Roda (Quali Driver) [P]
Driver 2 - Tristan Jung [G]
Driver 3 - John Bovy [G]

Post by **Miguel98** » 14 Sep 2014, 07:46

Lotto confirm their line-up of Kevin Giovesi, Kim Sung Ri, who is our Qualifying Driver and team's owner, Miguel Rocha to drive the car.

tristan1117 · Post by **tristan1117** » 15 Sep 2014, 02:30

With my team not having any drivers to speak of at the moment, I'd like to make offers to Michael Ammermuller and Gary Paffett to be the lead drivers of both of our LMP2 cars, if that is allowed. I'd also like to announce that we'd like to bring back 59-year-old Max von Hegel from retirement to drive in the second car on a part-time basis.

go_Rubens · Post by **go_Rubens** » 15 Sep 2014, 04:30

pi314159 wrote:If I overlooked a request for a real-life driver, please remind me about that here in the thread.

We still need a decision from Rubens Barrichello. If he rejects the offer, we'll make an offer to Sam Bird.

pi314159 · Post by **pi314159** » 15 Sep 2014, 08:44

Good news for some of the teams who had to run part-time schedules due to entry limitations - the withdrawals of Markus Mk. Racing and Renntechnologie AG mean that ICE-3, Lotto and the first Valerian car can run the full season, and the second Tassie and the second Valerian car can run for the full season apart from Silverstone.

now, for some RL drivers:
Davide Rigon accepts the ICE-3 offer.
Wittmann's decision TBA.
Romain Grosjean declines the Valerian offer.
Nick Heidfeld accepts the Hunter Autosports offer.
Benoit Tréluyer accepts the NISMO offer.
Kevin Giovesi accepts the Lotto Racing offer.
Michael Ammermüller accepts the Boxtel offer.
Paffet's decision TBA.
Rubens Barrichello accepts the Henri offer for Le Mans only.
Sam Bird accepts the Henri offer for the remaining season.

FMecha · Post by **FMecha** » 15 Sep 2014, 10:03

Any spare, part time GT entry available?

pi314159 · Post by **pi314159** » 15 Sep 2014, 10:12

FMecha wrote:Any spare, part time GT entry available?

Silverstone and Monza entry lists are full. Sao Paulo, Sepang and Adelaide have space for one entry, Fuji, Indianapolis and Le Mans have three available spaces, and Spa-Francorchamps has eight spaces available.

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 15 Sep 2014, 19:25

Racing for Holland will enter the Le Mans 24 Hours, along with the Spa round, in the LMP2 category.

Chassis: Dome S103
Engine: Judd

Driver 1 - Bastiaan van Nieuwenhuijzen (NED) [G] (Qualifying driver)
Driver 2 - TBC
Driver 3 - Jan Lammers (NED) [S]

We extend an offer to Klaas van der Zwaart to be the second driver.

FMecha · Post by **FMecha** » 15 Sep 2014, 20:00

pi314159 wrote:
FMecha wrote:Any spare, part time GT entry available?

Silverstone and Monza entry lists are full. Sao Paulo, Sepang and Adelaide have space for one entry, Fuji, Indianapolis and Le Mans have three available spaces, and Spa-Francorchamps has eight spaces available.

OK, I will enter the following:

Northwind Traders Sentinel Motorsport (USA)
#90 2016 SRT/Dodge Viper - INDY ONLY
Etsuko Hayase (Japan, bronze, qualifier) / [decided by TRRS RNG] / [decided by TRRS RNG]

HawkAussie · Post by **HawkAussie** » 15 Sep 2014, 23:01

Actually I am going to modifie my lineup to be this

Tassie Racing
Adess 02 - Nissan
#13 - Craig Lowndes [RL] (P) (Quali), Humbert Moyenmoutier (S), Maktub Al Nahyan (S)
#14 - TBA [RL] (Quali), Elinor Yurko (S), Nazreena Nasser (S)

This is because I will attempt to try and get James Courtney on board the 14.

RealRacingRoots · Post by **RealRacingRoots** » 16 Sep 2014, 00:03

Racing Team Solvalou has offered Andrea Bertolini to drive in the GTe Guest Lamborghini Huracan at Monza to drive alongside Stefan Kuntz and Aurelien Moll.

Klon · Post by **Klon** » 16 Sep 2014, 10:31

Porsche by Best In The World™ would like to offer Martin Tomczyk (platinum) a ACO Le Mans Cup full-time drive in the #6 car (taking Li Qi's place). Should he reject that offer, we'd like to offer it to Marc Lieb, and after that to Timo Scheider (both platinum as well).

Edit: Furthermore, Porsche by Best In The World™ also confirms that Ashley Cassidy will take the place of Yu Hao in the 6 Hours of Silverstone.

Normal32 · Post by **Normal32** » 18 Sep 2014, 20:28

Part-time entry soon

tristan1117 · Post by **tristan1117** » 19 Sep 2014, 00:41

Boxtel's LMP2 team is slowly coming together. Richard Hershall, former tester, has been signed to the first car. Giuseppe Colombo has been signed to the second car.

FMecha · Post by **FMecha** » 19 Sep 2014, 11:28

FMecha wrote:
pi314159 wrote:Silverstone and Monza entry lists are full. Sao Paulo, Sepang and Adelaide have space for one entry, Fuji, Indianapolis and Le Mans have three available spaces, and Spa-Francorchamps has eight spaces available.

OK, I will enter the following:

Northwind Traders Sentinel Motorsport (USA)
#97 2016 SRT/Dodge Viper - INDY ONLY
Etsuko Hayase (Japan, bronze, qualifier) / [decided by TRRS RNG] / [decided by TRRS RNG]

The RNG results are out and the results says "wait", so I'll extend the schedule to include the Le Mans, Spa, and Adelaide.

Also noticed #90 is used, so I'll use #97 instead.

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 21 Sep 2014, 01:32

With the termination of the Horizon Motorsport Indycar Program, JLD Motorsport will enter a part-time campaign in ACO LMC. Details are as below:

Team name : DHL JLD Motorsport
Nationality : Germany
Class : LMP1-L

Car : Oreca 07-BMW
Car Number : 74
Rounds : Paul Ricard, Spa, Sao Paulo, Indianapolis, Fuji, Sepang

Driver 1
Name: Andy Priaulx
Nationality: British
Qualifying Driver: Yes
Tier: Platinum

Driver 2
Name: Vidal Reyna-Sanchez
Nationality: American
Qualifying Driver: No
Tier: Gold

Driver 3
Name: Antonio Reyna-Sanchez
Nationality: American
Qualifying Driver: No
Tier: Silver

Hermann95 · Post by **Hermann95** » 21 Sep 2014, 09:06

I have a question: is it necesary to name the qualifying drivers until the 28th?

Rated · Post by **Rated** » 21 Sep 2014, 09:57

Marco Wittmann will compete in round 1, 4 and 10 due to his DTM schedule.
ICE-3 Racing will offer a contract to Lucas Ordoñez (SPA - RL Tier, probably gold) to run 7 rounds (2 - 3 and 5 to 9).
Note : Davide Rigon will be the qualifying driver when Wittmann isn't in the squad. If it's not possible to have two different qualifying drivers, then it will be Rigon for all the rounds.

tristan1117 · Post by **tristan1117** » 22 Sep 2014, 01:30

Jan Maylander will be the third driver for the number-1 Boxtel #86 LMP2 car. Now just waiting on Gary Paffett (charming name) to make a decision.

pi314159 · Post by **pi314159** » 22 Sep 2014, 11:22

Priaulx and Ordonez accept their respective offers, Paffett declines.

HawkAussie · Post by **HawkAussie** » 22 Sep 2014, 22:43

What about Courtney offer for Tassie Racing?

SeedStriker · Post by **SeedStriker** » 23 Sep 2014, 16:53

Pi, I forgot that the extra Vette for Le Mans still needs a driver, so the offer is still for Sebastien Loeb. If not, Tsubasa Portilla will drive it alonside Shinjo and Kazami.

pi314159 · Post by **pi314159** » 23 Sep 2014, 17:22

Loeb agrees to drive the third Corvette at Le Mans.
James Courtney agrees to do Le Mans and Adelaide, but declines for the rest of the season.