Follow the 2008 24 Hours of Le Mans Live

Two great resources for following the race live:

• Radio Le Mans


• Le Mans Live Tracker

Let's look forward to a great race!

UPDATE: Make sure to check for the latest version of the Live Tracker. Certain features were not working in the initial version.

Video: Huge Crash at Le Mans Qualifying

Hideki Noda's LMP2 Lola-Mazda gets airborne at La Sarthe's Dunlop Curve. What goes up, must come down, and that's where things can get painful. Noda survived the horrific crash and even walked away under his own power. Defiantly, the Kruse Schiller Motorsport team is looking to rebuild and be ready for Saturday's starting grid. That will be impressive should they pull it off.

Le Mans News Round Up

The 24 Hours of Le Mans is almost upon us and the race news is starting to get hot and heavy. Rather than bury you in posts we decided to put the news in one post, all for your convenience. Do we love our readers or what? (For the cynics out there that insist we are actually doing this because we are a bunch of lazy sods, you know what you can do? You can just go to... well, a NASCAR site. How 'bout them apples?)

• Peugeot thoroughly dominates first qualifying session


• Relaxed Rockenfeller eyeing victory


• Corvette target sixth Le Mans win


• Second Epsilon Euskadi to race in LMP1


• Villeneuve: I'm ready to win Le Mans


• Patrón Highcroft's Stefan Johansson joins Le Mans grid


• McNish: We've got a job to finish


• Risi/Krohn Ferrari repaired and ready for Le Mans

Nice Le Mans Preview

Much to my surprise, Ultimatecarpage.com has put together a very nice preview for the 24 Hours of Le Mans. It features an extensive image gallery with many beautiful shots of all 55 cars entered. Wait a minute... 55 cars? Now that is an epic starting grid. Damn you ALMS and your piddly little 30 car grids.

Anyway, the best part of the preview is that they have included a picture of each car next to its description. This will definitely come in handy on race day, functioning as a program of sorts. I mean not everyone can instantly tell a Pescarolo Judd from a Lola AER. Sure I can, but some of you may need a bit of help now and then.

First Pics: Aston Martin V8 Vantage GT2

Aston Martin has finally released pictures of its GT2-spec V8 Vantage sports car. The E85 fueled racer will be driven by customer teams in the ALMS, LMS and FIA GT series. It's set to make it's American debut at Long Beach when Drayson-Barwell will finally be able to ditch the GT3-spec DBRS9 they've started the ALMS season with and switch to the new V8 Vantage. Hopefully the increase in performance will allow the team to keep up with the class leading Porsches and Ferraris.

UPDATE: New gallery link!