COOL Racing will expand its European Le Mans Series programme in 2021, continuing in LMP2 with the Oreca 07 and entering a Ligier JS P320 in LMP3 as well. The LMP2 drivers will remain the same with Nicolas Lapierre teaming up alongside Alexandre Coigny and Antonin Borga for a third consecutive season together. Aiming to … Continue reading
United Autosports are delighted to confirm that Tom Gamble will move across to their LMP2 team for the 2021 European Le Mans Series. Tom is the current ELMS LMP3 champion, after scoring three wins and four podiums in five races last year. In 2021, he will be racing alongside reigning ELMS LMP2 champion Phil Hanson … Continue reading
United Autosports are delighted to confirm that Edouard Cauhaupe will join their European Le Mans Series LMP3 team for the 2021 season. The 18-year-old French driver will join the reigning ELMS LMP3 champions in their #2 Ligier JS P320 for the 2021 season after previously having raced in the Michelin Le Mans Cup. In 2020, … Continue reading
United Autosports are delighted to confirm that Manuel Maldonado will join United Autosports for both the Asian Le Mans Series and the European Le Mans Series in 2021. The Venezuelan racing driver began his career in karting, before moving into single seaters and racing in the Italian F4 Championship. He has raced in the MRF … Continue reading
Swiss outfit COOL Racing will run independently from 2021 for its various prototype and GT racing programmes, with team management headed by Alexandre Coigny and Nicolas Lapierre. In light of this, Coigny and Lapierre have launched their own race operations structure. Taking its initials from its founders, CLX Motorsport will oversee the trackside and day-to-day … Continue reading
United Autosports are pleased to confirm that Phil Hanson and Job van Uitert will return to the team for the 2021 European Le Mans Series. Current ELMS LMP2 champion Phil Hanson, returns to lead the #22 Oreca 07 in his fourth year with United Autosports. At only 21 years old, Phil won the ELMS LMP2 … Continue reading
United Autosports are delighted to confirm that Jim McGuire, Duncan Tappy and Andrew Bentley will return to the team for the 2021 European Le Mans Series. The trio will return to United’s championship winning LMP3 team in the #3 Ligier JS P320 after finishing fifth at the end of the 2020 season. They ended the … Continue reading
Such has been the frenetic pace of this year’s condensed motor racing year due to the worldwide COVID virus, Phil Hanson is only now able to reflect on what has been an unbelievably successful and history-making 2020. In terms of this year’s truncated season Phil, from Sunningdale, Berkshire, achieved his three, pre-season goals in stunning … Continue reading
Finlay Hutchison’s first season of European Le Mans Series action concluded with a seventh place finish in the LMGTE class during round five at the Autódromo Internacional do Algarve on Sunday, 1st November, after an enforced fightback was required due to an early excursion for team-mate Rodrigo Sales. Scottish racer Hutchison, competing at the Portuguese … Continue reading
RLR MSport was on course to bookend the 2020 European Le Mans Series (ELMS) with podiums, until a starter motor failure removed the team from third place at Autodromo Internacional do Algarve (30 October-1 November). The Motul-powered team opened 2020 with a top three result in Le Castellet, and Lorenzo Veglia, James Dayson and Malthe Jakobsen … Continue reading