I thought I would get thread up and running for the big race today as track action starts today with test sessions for ALMS competitors.

Entry list:

LMP1

1 Audi Sport North America Audi R10 TDI (McNish, Capello, Kristensen)
2 Audi Sport North America Audi R10 TDI (Pirro, M. Werner, Biela)
12 Autocon Motorsports Lola B01/60 AER P07-E (Lewis, McMurray, Willman)
37 Intersport Racing KWM CA06/H Judd GV5 S2 (J. Field, C. Field, Berry)

LMP2

6 Penske Motorsports Porsche RS Spyder (Maassen, Briscoe, Collard)
7 Penske Motorsports Porsche RS Spyder (Dumas, Bernhard, Castroneves)
8 Mazdaspeed/B-K Motorsports Lola B07/46 MZR-R (Bach, Devlin, Matos)
9 Highcroft Racing Acura ARX-01a / Acura V8 (Brabham, Johansson, Dayton)
15 Lowe's Fernandez Racing Lola B06/43 Acura V8 (Fernandez, Diaz, Martinez)
16 Dyson Racing Team Porsche RS Spyder (Leitzinger, Wallace, Lally)
19 van der Stuer Racing Radical SR9 AER P07-E (van der Stuer, Pecorari, Binnie)?
20 Dyson Racing Team Porsche RS Spyder (Dyson, Smith)
26 Andretti Green Racing Acura ARX-01a / Acura V8 (Herta, D. Franchiti, Kanaan)
27 Horag Racing Lola B05/40 Judd XV-675 (Lienhard, Theys, van de Poole)

LMGT1

3 Corvette Racing Corvette C6.R (O'Connell, Magnussen,Fellows)
4 Corvette Racing Corvette C6.R (Gavin, Beretta, Papis)
59 Team Modena Aston Martin DBR9 (Garcia, Halliday, Turner )

LMGT2

10 Konrad Racing Porsche 996 GT3 RSR ( Collin,TBA,TBA )
11 Konrad Racing Porsche 997 GT3 RSR ( Kaufmann, TBA,TBA)
18 Rahal Letterman Racing Porsche 997 GT3 RSR (Kelleners, Milner, G.Rahal )
21 Panoz Team PTG Panoz Esperante GTLM (Auberlen, Hand, Kimber-Smith)
22 Panoz Team PTG Panoz Esperante GTLM (Maxwell, Sellers, Smith)
24 JMB Racing Ferrari F430 GT (Aucott, Macari, Wilson)
31 Petersen Motorsports/White Lightning Racing Ferrari F430 GT (T. Bergmeister, Enge, Gidley)
32 Corsa Motorsports/White Lightning Racing Ferrari F430GT(Mediani Aguas, Lopez? )
44 Flying Lizard Motorsports Porsche 997 GT3 RSR (Pechnik, Neiman, Law)
45 Flying Lizard Motorsports Porsche 997 GT3 RSR(van Overbeek,J.Bergmeister,Lieb)
53 Robertson Racing Panoz Esperante GTLM(D.Robertson,A.Robertson,Lyendyke Jr.)
54 Team Trans Sport Porsche 997 GT3 RSR (Pappas, Borcheller, Basseng)
61 Risi Competizione/ Krohn Racing Ferrari F430 GT (Krohn, Jonsson, Braun)
62 Risi Competizione Ferrari F430 GT (Salo, Melo, Mowlem)
71 Tafel Racing Porsche 997 GT3 RSR (Henzler, Liddell, Long)
73 Tafel Racing Porsche 997 GT3 RSR (Tafel, Farnbacher, James)
77 Autoracing Club Bratislava Porsche 996 GT3 RS ( Kanopka, Casadei, McCormick)
85 Farnbacher Loles Motorsports Porsche 997 GT3 RSR (D. Werner, Nielsen, Ehret)
86 Spyker Squadron( Janis,Kox,TBA)

The VDS Racing Radical looks unlikely to race due to ana ccident in testing last week which is a shame but we still have an excellent field despite the dirth in P1 and GT1.

Motors TV coverage begins with a preview at 13.30 (GMT) on Saturday followed by 12.5 hours of Sebring race coverage from 14.00 (GMT). I assume we will get SPEED commentary although SPEED will be breaking for 3 hours from 16.30 to cover NASCAR so we may get someone else filling the gap.

Really looking forward to this after a bleak motorsportless winter. I hope everyone enjoys the race.

Good to hear that there is plenty of coverage planned and it should be a great race looking at the massive entry list for the event. Something does really need to be done about the poor entry in LMP1 and LMGT1.

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The #11 Konrad 997 has been withdrawn apparently. Not sure why...yet.

True about GT1 but i'm sure the majority of us will be behind the one car

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Coverage is 13:30 -> 2:30am

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I did say that above but the way you put it is clearer Matt.

practise starts in less than 1 hour (live radio coverage on globecast, channel 0157 on sky or www.0157.org)

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motorstv

ummm not sure

A bit of a preview courtesy of Racingfanatics.com, enjoy,I know I did!:
http://www.racingfanatics.com/2007%20Ho ... 0video.htm
vid at bottom of page

Damn, I'm going to miss the start, I just booked a test drive of a Seat Leon which finished at 2pm and is 30 mins away

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me too, now, only a few minutes i hope. damned life getting in the way.

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motorstv

ummm not sure

Must of missed that my bad

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I'll be there from the start, the end might be a diff matter tho zzzzzzzzzz

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ummm not sure

the car is still in the porsche factory, it isnt finnished and hasnt had the mandatory shakedown at the porsche test track.

Not quite right apperently. This is from DSC.

Franz Konrad (on the 997 and the 2007 ALMS season): "The car was very late from Porsche and has only done a 3 lap shakedown at Weissach. Because it was late we missed the scheduled freight flight last Wednesday and the car has now sat on the tarmac for 40 hours waiting for another flight. It's too late now for this race of course but we are doing the full season here with one 997.