Newsletter #19

“We end the first three months of the year with a marvellous performance in the United States – our second victory in the Sebring 12 Hours with Tequila Patron ESM! This result is a great  reward for all the work invested by Onroak Automotive and its partners. We're now looking forward to the start of the other championships in which our sports prototypes are competing. We will also be present in the United States with our Ligier JS F4 single-seaters,…
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Pole position, downpour and safety cars for the first round of the 2018 V de V Endurance Series

V de V Endurance Series – round 1, Barcelona – 24-03-2018 The opening round of the 2018 V de V Endurance Series scheduled on the Barcelona circuit on 24th March should have taken place in spring conditions – it was far from being the case! The drivers raced in pouring rain throughout. The #4 and #94 Ligier JS P3s entered by Cool Racing and Team Virage locked out the front row of the grid in qualifying. The race began behind the…

Onroak Automotive scores another victory in the Sebring 12 Hours

IMSA WeatherTech Sportscar Championship, Round 2: Sebring 12 Hours After their win with the Ligier JS P2 in 2016, Onroak Automotive and Tequila Patron ESM scored their second victory in the Sebring 12 Hours this weekend with the Nissan DPi. United Autosports, on their first outing in the Florida classic, were rewarded with an excellent fifth place with their #32 Ligier JS P217, the second Onroak Automotive chassis entered for the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. Rounding off this weekend's excellent…

The two Nissan DPis on the first two rows of the Sebring 12-Hours grid

IMSA WeatherTech Sportscar Championship, round 2, Sebring 12 Hours – Qualifying Olivier Pla and Pipo Derani in the #2 and #22 Nissan DPis entered by Tequila Patron ESM have clinched places on the first two rows of the starting grid for the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Sebring 12 Hours. Qualifying was particularly closely fought as shown by the gap between the first and 10th qualifiers, less than a second! The drivers only had 15 minutes to bang in their qualifying lap.…

A Ligier JS P3 wins at Sebring

IMSA Prototype Challenge presented by Mazda, round 2, Sebring – 14-16 March 2018 After ANSA Motorsports' victory at Daytona in January, a Ligier JS P3 run by Charles Wicht Racing won at Sebring in the second round of the IMSA Prototype Challenge. The Extreme Speed Motorsports Ligier JS P3 saw the flag in third place. The 1h 45mn race on the bumpy Sebring circuit was marked by several incidents including a long Full Course Yellow neutralisation. The #7 Ligier JS…