Are cars 67 and 68 still in it? What happened?

[DustyC]

The various lists across the web seem to be differnt to one another.

Can anyone tell me what happened to these two cars?
Are they in or out?

67 LMGTS CARE RACING FERRARI 550 MARANELLO
68 LMGTS BMS SCUDERIA ITALIA FERRARI 550 MARANELLO

Also anyone got a upto date list of the reserves? Might help me to work out what is really going on.
Thanks

[shnozz]

more importantly, can anyone tell me if the mucky ladies tent will return this year?

[charlescrawley]

It seems that the Pagani Zonda has been withdrawn and the Seikel Porsche #84 is racing.

As for the 67 and 68 cars, they both seem to have been withdrawn before the 25th May Test Day. I will try to find out what happened to them both.

Edited to add: the last remaining reserve is the #36 Gerard Welter WR LM2004 LMP2 car, driven by Yann Goudy and Richard Balandras.

Check out www.dailysportscar.com (if you have a subscription) as their coverage is rather good. (I have no affiliation!)

>> Edited by charlescrawley on Thursday 27th May 15:25

[charlescrawley]

Here's the low-down on the #67 Care Racing Ferrari:

<a href="http://www.care-racing.com/news/2004/news_2004_12.htm">www.care-racing.com/news/2004/news_2004_12.htm</a>

They are concentrating on the Prodrive Ferraris (#65 and 66) and the Larbre competition car (#69).

Hmm, looks like this might be the same reason for the withdrawal of the #68 BMS Scuderia Italia Ferrari. Have a look at their homepage. What's that down at the bottom? Yup, Care Racing again.

www.scuderiaitalia.it/bms_ita.htm


>> Edited by charlescrawley on Thursday 27th May 15:32

>> Edited by charlescrawley on Thursday 27th May 15:33

[Guy Humpage]

The Dailysportscar.com version of the entry list jumps from #66 to #69 and only has a single entry (an LMP2 class WR) on the reserves, the Pagani Zonda dropped out earlier this week allowing in the 2nd Seikel entered 911.

Looking in the DSc archives (ps. hurrah for DSC, well worth the money ) #68 dropped out on the 2nd April and the #67 dropped out on 21st April letting in the 2nd TVR.

[Curses beaten to it by Charles... ]

>> Edited by Guy Humpage on Thursday 27th May 15:34

[charlescrawley]

shnozz said:

more importantly, can anyone tell me if the mucky ladies tent will return this year?

damn right! Last year was a real disappointment..

[DustyC]

Right, I think I have the whole list upto date from various sources.


04 Taurus Sports Racing, Lola Judd - Now racing, not a reserve.

60 Pagini Zonda - Withdrawn

84 Seikel motorsport, Porsche - Now racing, not a reserve.

36 Gerard Welter - Last and only remaining reserve.

Thanks to everyone for helping, I now have myself an uptodate list on what is going on.

[charlescrawley]

Does anyone have any other good sources for Le Mans news? dailysportscar.com is good, but it's always nice to have more! The ACO website is crap for news and since the demise of updates on Maison Blanche, there's not a lot around. Autosport is a bit thin for news and that's the only other one I've checked.
Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

[ettore]

Try www.ten-tenths.com . They have a sportscar/GT forum which is pretty up to date and generally well-attended.

[charlescrawley]

ettore said:

Try www.ten-tenths.com . They have a sportscar/GT forum which is pretty up to date and generally well-attended.

Thanks mate, I'll look into it...