European Le Mans Series

I will report back on that next week.

Just for reference, that will be the European Le Mans series I'm going to see.

It's going to be wonderful.

Glorious four-hour

Only two classes in the World Endurance Championship.

You go down to the European Le Mans Series next.

I'm just working down the sort of pantheon of, um, the pyramid of power, if you will, in sports car racing.

You've got, uh, European Le Mans Series, in fact, that's at Silverstone this weekend, making its return to the UK for the first time in a while, LMP2 cars, LMP3 cars, and GT3 cars.

Then you come down to the next categories and cars that, you know, sports car racing, but GT racing, and this is really where this is.

But GT racing can come in many forms.

And the next three races for WC, I'm sure in the background there's going to be news piling out of everywhere, be it drivers, be it programs, be it car development, be it regulation, etc.

development that are to come but yeah no it was great weekend at kota healthy crowd as well it must be said even though it was so hot um mustang challenge was entertaining saw champions crown there it's nice to see that on the bill um and yeah just enjoyed it like going to kota wish it was slightly cooler but for for uh the weekend we had uh was was really enjoyable so It's ELMS at Silverstone for us next, Graham.

It is.

We're going to be home Tuesday morning, Tuesday afternoon in the UK.

And then we'll decide who's going when to Silverstone for its second race in this run at the home of British Motorsport.

A bit of a kind of preview for the WC turning up there, of course, next year, as ELMS will again.

So do keep an eye on Daily Sportscar, principally for that one.

I'll be on commentary duty again with a friend and colleague, Johnny Palmer, of course, and Steph Wentworth.

And, and that connection continued, if you remember, for when we spoke to him earlier on this season.

It's Silverstone this weekend, supporting the European Le Mans Series, and I'm delighted to say that, uh, Nicholas joins us again.

First of all, thank you very much for making some time in the build-up here to your busy weekend.

Uh, we'll, we'll talk about that in a, in a moment, Nicholas.

Yeah.

Benoit is building an amazing team, and I wanna go along with him as far as I can because for me, there isn't a, a better team that I've worked with so far.

Well, if you're gonna be there at the weekend, and many of our listeners will be there at the weekend for the European Le Mans Series, make sure you're trackside for the Leisure sessions.

What number is your car?

may not be very happy because another slower lap from Nigel Moore loses about 7 tenths of a second to Tio Mercurius behind Danny Sufi closing in on Theo and then Oscar Tunjo closing in all three of them hence why they're all in the same camera shot now down at Fanez and Trying to remember why I knew the name Oscar Tunjo.

He's been around for a long time in GP3 back 10 years ago, racing with WRT in the COVID years in GT World Challenge, and since has become a bit of a professional LMP3 driver, because he's come third in European Le Mans Series in LMP3 back in 2023, second in the Prototype Cup that same year.

And then, at the moment, is leading the LMP3 Championship at IMSA with this team, with Gebauer Motorsport, with 383,850 points, because Americans like points.

It's got six wins to his name.