"The London Project" Le Mans Racing Team

I'm involved in a charity-based racing team, which aims to raise money to cure blindness (age-related macular degeneration). See Prevent blindness from age related macular degeneration of eye, surgery treatment and research for information about the fund.

We'll be racing at Silverstone from 9-11 September, so let me know if you'll be around. We'll also be in the US a few weeks after that.

Just got pics of the final car livery today, which I designed. (The fund's logo is pink so I went with it )

Practice session today, at Pembrey Circuit, Wales:

Technical information about the car here: http://www.genoa-racing.com/the-car/

A few seconds of video?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_GwOGkBqvM

The team at a practice session today:



Under the bonnet:

ok, today was first practice day. We had two 1 hour sessions. Unfortunately the car developed an electrical fault at the start of the first session, and the mechanics stripped the car and worked like crazy to find it and fix it. It took them an hour, and we missed getting the car out for at least one lap by just seconds. Good try all the same.



So we were up and running again for second session:

Today was the big day! We finished 2nd in class, which was pretty decent. Jordan drove especially well. In the end we were catching the leader by 4 seconds a lap and would have taken the lead if we'd had another 15 minutes. I won't spoil the rest of the results in case people haven't watched it yet.

Warm up starts:





Grid girls make their way out:

The 6 hour race has begun:

Some other random stuff.

Swapping cold for hot tires on the grid just before the start of the race:




Murray Walker:








Speed trap in the pit lane:


We use electric tire warmers:


Some other teams use gas heaters instead:

Why gas-heater?

I guess the engine itself is pretty troublefree, but $20000 for a restoration when Summit Racing only charges half of that for a new crate engine (on the other hand, that one will probably need some work before it's ok for racing).

Re:

P.P. skrev:

Why gas-heater?

apparently it does better job of heating rims, but you get less fine control of temperature.

P.P. skrev:

I guess the engine itself is pretty troublefree, but $20000 for a restoration when Summit Racing only charges half of that for a new crate engine (on the other hand, that one will probably need some work before it's ok for racing).

I think you just answered your own question