Video: Onboard with Gunnar Jeanette

 Take a few laps around Wisconsin's famous Road America circuit aboard Gunnar Jeanette's LMPC machine.


Road America Helmet Camera from Gunnar Jeannette on Vimeo.

Photo courtesy of John Dagys

News: Level 5 to LMP2 with Lola and HPD

Level 5 will trade their Oreca FLM's for a pair of Lola roadsters (Photo: John Dagys)

  2010 LMPC Champoions, Level 5 Motorsports, have announced that they will move up to LMP2 next season and campaign a pair of HPD powered Lola B11/40 open topped roadsters.

   Team owner and 2010 LMPC rookie of the year Scott Tucker is looking forward to the new partnership,  “We took our time to evaluate who the best partners would be,” Tucker said. “Both Lola and Honda are very strong, professional motorsports organizations that have proven winning traditions and goals that align very well with ours for the 2011 season.”

 Sharing the driving duties along with Tucker will be Christophe Bouchut and Luis Diaz. A fourth driver for the endurance races has yet to be named.

(Photo: www.lola-group.com)

Thoughts on ALMS's LMPC formula

This year ALMS unveiled many changes to the structure of the series. Two of the most noticalbe changes are the addition of two "Challenge" classes. GT Challenge consists of variants of the ever popular Porsche Cup car and ran at selected events in 2009. 2010 marks the first year for Le Mans Prototype Challenge, or LMPC. The class consists of spec Courage prototype chassis with Corvette engines supplying the power. The whole idea is to allow teams to experience prototype racing on a budget.