After the euphoria surrounding the team's Le Mans win and subsequent 6th place points finish at the Nurburgring 1000kms 2 weeks later, we're now in mid-July and things have been quiet regarding on-track activity but behind the scenes in the UK race shop, the team are working hard preparing for the next race-Spa 1000kms in August. The entire car is stripped down and rebuilt between each race, and an amazing attention to detail is taken to ensure maximum reliability at the next race.

Driver News - Catching-up with Chris

Below overcast Eiffel Mountain skies Chris Buncombe qualified the Binnie Motorsport Lola-Zytek in a comfortable 6th place for tomorrow's Nurburgring 1000kms race. It was Buncombe's first visit to the famous German circuit but despite a reasonable time he has mixed feelings after the quali session. "I think I could have done better, to be honest. But we have been struggling with under steer all weekend, and trying to dial that out of the car's setup before the qualifying session, but we ran out of time. That said I made a couple of small mistakes on my hot lap, resulting an an 'ok' grid position.
 
The British West Countryman continued "We will have a good car for the race though, and that's the important thing. Bill will start and I have every confidence in him, of course. Turn 1 here is a very tight hairpin after a fast straight, and I think if we can avoid any contact with others there, we will be fine. I am looking forward to driving here, it's a great circuit and I think in any weather conditions we can be there at the end, which is when it really matters".
 
Ovrall P2 fastest was the RML Lola-MG of Tommy Erdos, followed by the Barazi Zytek of Mike Vergers. Taking outright race 'pole positon' was the Peugeot LMP1 driven by ex-Williams F1 star Marc Gene.
 
Tomorrow's race kicks off at 12pm CET, 11am UK time, and you can follow the entire race either with the European Motors TV coverage, or via www.lmes.net.

Click on the link below to go to the Le Mans Page , then download PDF file containing all the Le Mans reports as they appeared on the site during the race:

Le Mans Reports

Our friends at www.dailysportscar.com interviewed Chris after his first Le Mans drive, and maiden win. Today they published the interview on their site, and you can view it from from the list of today's articles here:

Driver Interviews

'Dailysportscar.com is one of the sport's leading news websites. For a modest fee, readers are kept fully up to date with every sports car and GT race, and all the relevant news surrounding the world of sports cars. So if you aren't a subscriber - take a look at this site-its well worth it'.

The Final report for Le mans 2007 is available as a special download in PDF format lower down and to the right on this page.

We would like to take this opportunity to say a big thank you to all the fans who have emailed in with well-wishes for our success. This means more than anything when we realize just how many people are out there watching our progress. For those who have asked for signed Le Mans posters, we will mail these out to you so please send in your requests, and remember to include your mailing address. You can reach us by emailing binniems@gmail.com.

'We'll post as many of your emails as we can on this website so check back in this week'
 
Thanks again to you all!
 
Binnie Motorsports Team

We made it! Binnie Motorsports - 1st in P2 - by a 'Le Mans' country mile! Bring it on!!
 
Well done to all the Binnie Boys - a well deserved victory for all concerned. Congratulations are coming in from all over the globe, from friends and sponsors. A big thanks to Kumho for providing us with great tyres and congrats to them - this is their best ever finish at Le Mans and we are pleased to bring that to them, and indeed all our sponsors - Carlisle Capital, Vanco, Chic Outlet Shopping (the first race for them, and a Le Mans win!), Click Culture, Red Hook, all our fans and everyone else who followed us. Thanks!
 
To wrap it up, because we sat out most of the final hour in the pit garage to be safe, and also because we had no radio contact with Chris, we ended up finishing 18th overall. we completed 317 laps and made 28 pit stops.
 
The race was won outright by Audi #1 - Pirro/Werner and Biela. GT1 spoils went to the #009 Aston Martin, and GT2 honours went to #15 Porsche IMSA Performance team. Well done to them too.
 
We'll add some pictures and driver reactions soon!

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