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Dunlop Le Mans

Le Mans Test Day, Entry Notes  - Part One

LMP1

15 of the 17 confirmed LMP1 entries for the 2011 Le Mans 24 hours will be on track at the Test Day this Easter Sunday - Both the Highcroft HPD and Quifel ASM Zytek will be absent but both are expected to be present in June (and both may yet be present next month at Spa.)

Of the race entries running all three factory Audi R18s have their full race crew listed, all three also have the nominated Audi Test Driver Marco Bonanomi listed too.

There are no surprises due at Peugeot Sport, their trio of 908s all present and correct now the decision has been taken not to run the Hybridised version quite yet.

Aston Martin Racing too will have their full factory driver squad on display and are due to run both of their AMR Ones together for the first time too.

Oreca Team Matmut arrive here on the back of a famous Sebring victory for their 'old' 908 HDI FAP - Two of their trio of race drivers are listed (no Olivier Panis it seems).

Amongst the Privateers Rebellion Racing and Oak Racing bring two car efforts.  Rebellion reintroducing the Toyota name to the great race for the first time in over a decade and Oak bringing the famous Gulf Racing colours (one of three teams to do so in 2011) back to the sight of their greatest triumphs equipped with Pescarolo chassis, Judd engines and Dunlop tyres.

Finally amongst the race entrants Hope racing will see the public debut on track of their main 2011 weapon, the Lehmann-Flybrid powered Oreca 01 - Paul Ricard FLM standout Nicolas Marroc and Lotus factory man James Rossiter are named alongside Steve Zacchia.

Hoping for a drop out amongst the LMP race entrants are Kronos Racing, their Lola Aston Martin is still on the reserve list and has just Vanina Ickx named on the official test day entry though Maxime Martin and Bas Leinders are likely to join her at the test.  

Finally the Zytek Hybrid originally listed for Rangoni Motorsport and now entered by MIK Corse has lost its place on the reserve list due to the change of entry.  This will be the first occasion that two Hybrid LMPs have lapped together - The shape of things to come?  Possibly sooner than you think!

1 AUDI SPORT TEAM JOEST - MICHELIN - AUDI R18 TDI - Timo BERNHARD/ Romain DUMAS/ Mike ROCKENFELLER/ Marco BONANOMI
2 AUDI SPORT TEAM JOEST - MICHELIN - AUDI R18 TDI - Marcel FÄSSLER/ André LOTTERER/ Benoit TRELUYER/ Marco BONANOMI
3 AUDI SPORT NORTH AMERICA - MICHELIN - AUDI R18 TDI - Tom KRISTENSEN/ Rinaldo CAPELLO/ Allan McNISH/ Marco BONANOMI
5 HOPE RACING - MICHELIN - ORECA SWISS HY TECH-HYBRID - Steve ZACCHIA/ Nicolas MARROC/ James ROSSITER
7 PEUGEOT SPORT TOTAL - MICHELIN - PEUGEOT 908 - Alexandre WURZ/ Marc GENE/ Anthony DAVIDSON
8 PEUGEOT SPORT TOTAL - MICHELIN - PEUGEOT 908 - Franck MONTAGNY/ Stéphane SARRAZIN/ Nicolas MINASSIAN
9 TEAM PEUGEOT TOTAL - MICHELIN - PEUGEOT 908 - Sébastien BOURDAIS/ Simon PAGENAUD/ Pedro LAMY
10 TEAM ORECA MATMUT - MICHELIN - PEUGEOT 908 HDI-FAP - Nicolas LAPIERRE/ Loic DUVAL
12 REBELLION RACING - MICHELIN - LOLA B10/60 COUPE-TOYOTA - Nicolas PROST/ Neel JANI/ Jeroen BLEEKEMOLEN
13 REBELLION RACING - MICHELIN - LOLA B10/60 COUPE-TOYOTA - Andrea BELICCHI/ J.Christophe BOULLION/ Guy SMITH
15 OAK RACING - DUNLOP OAK PESCAROLO-JUDD - Matthieu LAHAYE/ Guillaume MOREAU/ Pierre RAGUES
16 PESCAROLO TEAM - MICHELIN - PESCAROLO JUDD - Emmanuel COLLARD/ Christophe TINSEAU/ Julien JOUSSE
24 OAK RACING - DUNLOP - OAK PESCAROLO-JUDD - Jacques NICOLET/ Richard HEIN/ Jean-François YVON
007 ASTON MARTIN RACING - MICHELIN - ASTON MARTIN AMR-ONE - Stefan MUCKE/ Darren TURNER/ Christian KLIEN
009 ASTON MARTIN RACING - MICHELIN - ASTON MARTIN AMR-ONE - Harold PRIMAT/ Adrian FERNANDEZ/ Andy MEYRICK

Reserve List

22 KRONOS RACING - MICHELIN - LOLA ASTON MARTIN - Vanina ICKX

Also Running

23 MIK CORSE - DUNLOP - ZYTEK 09H HYBRID - Maximo CORTES/ Ferdinando GERI/ Giacomo PICCINI/ Andrea PICCINI