Pescarolo Team beats a career marked by a crash on exit in Le Castellet

There are ways to start the Championship and ways to destroy a career. In the 6 hours of Le Castellet disputed in the Paul Ricard circuit on the day of yesterday succeeded the latter. And beyond the purely sporting, an error between the race director and safety car made full output be organized a montonera which severely damaged up to five GT, including two drop-outs.


I think the video explains it all, but the summary is clear. After the formation lap, the safety car should have abandoned the track and leave the participants that they wait for the green light. The car was not, and contrary to what we could expect, the traffic light was green. The classified first became aware of the presence of the Safety-Car still on the track and slowed down. It was not enough to ensure that the back of the peloton to avoid a massive accident. In these moments you remember exits by classes as they do in other Championships.
In sports, victory of the reborn Pescarolo Team with Christophe Tinseau, Emmanuel Collard and Julien Jousse driving taking advantage of their regularity and particularly the absence of problems with the Pescarolo-Judd. Everything is said, a car veteran and with many hours of flight on their backs. Behind Henry Pescarolo team, one of which started as favourites, Lola B10/60-Toyota of Rebellion Racing (Belicchi-Boullion) suffered a problem in one of its doors, while his teammates suffered problems with the gearbox that relegated them to the seventh position.

But if we talk about technical problems, we must talk about the debut of the aston Martin AMR-One. The new British prototype was not completed or distance of career, suffered from numerous problems of youth. In Aston Martin will have to work hard if they want to reach the 24 hours of Le Mans with options of victory, even among gasoline-powered vehicles.


Greaves Motorsport won third place on the podium and first among the LMP2 with the Zytek Z11SN-Nissan piloted by Tom Kimber-Smith, Karim Ojjeh and Gary Chalandon ahead of the Lola-Judd Pecom piloted by Luis Perez Companc, Pierre Kaffer and Mattias Russo. Completing the podium in the categories, the HPD ARX-flat of Strakka Racing.

Finally, the GTE Pro category was that most suffered the accident of the output. Up to four Porsche involved and that at that time they said farewell to any option of victory. Without the cars of the brand's highest, absolute domain of the Ferrari 458 Italy GTC with final victory for the JMW Motorsport team.