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  1. Rebellion Racing reinforces its lead in the FIA Trophy for LMP1 teams with a double podium - 4th and 5th places overall at the 2012 6 Hours of Bahrain - 2nd and 3rd in the FIA Endurance Trophy for LMP1 Teams - Nicolas Prost and Neel Jani move to 4th in the FIA WEC Drivers World Championship After the toughest race of the season due to extreme heat and high humidity, Lotus-Rebellion Racing finishes the 6 Hours of Bahrain in fourth and fifth place overall, 2nd and 3rd in the FIA Endurance Trophy for LMP1 Teams. The 6 Hours of Bahrain saw for the sixth time in six races both Lola B12/60 Toyotas taking the chequered flag proving the high level of reliability of the Lotus-Rebellion Racing cars. In endurance racing, minor issues can have a big impact on the final race result. Along with many other competitors (including Audi Sport and Toyota Racing), Lotus-Rebellion Racing had to deal with minor electrical problems during the race that prevented the Swiss team from making it onto the third step of the overall podium. Problems with the illuminated side number panels on both cars forced the team to stop for repairs, costing precious time in the pits. The Lola-Toyota #12 car driven by Neel Jani and Nicolas Prost was strongly running in third place overall with one lap over the #21 HPD-Honda when the Race Director instructed the car to pit for repair after the three hour mark. The sister car, #13 driven by Andrea Belicchi and Harold Primat was successfully recovering after starting from the back of the grid and was P6 overall when same issue checked its progression. In these stressfull and demanding conditions, the Toyota RV8KLM engines from Toyota Motorsport GmbH proved once again their performance and reliability. Michelin provided a first class service with quick, consistant and durable tyres even with extreme heat and harsh track conditions. REBELLION Racing now heads to the 6 Hours of Fuji in Japan with the aim of securing the win in the FIA Endurance Trophy for LMP1 Teams. After the 6 Hours of Bahrain, REBELLION Racing has a 37 point lead over Stakka Racing and a maximum of 50 points is available in the last two rounds of the FIA World Endurance Championship in Japan and China. Bart Hayden Lotus-Rebellion Racing Team manager : "It could have been a slightly better result for the team, but the weekend in Bahrain has positives in many ways. We had both cars on the LMP1 Privateer podium, that rewards the hard work of the whole team. The team endured extreme conditions throughout the week, the guys made no mistakes during the pit stops and had a lot of work to do in rebulding a complete car in only 24 hours prior to the warm-up. We are closer than ever to winning the FIA Endurance Trophy for LMP1 Teams. Both cars finished the race in good condition and that is important for the next fly-away races in Japan and the USA. #12 and the spare car will fly to Fuji. The spare car will be repaired and rebuilt in Japan to race there as #13. The #13 that we raced here in Bahrain will fly to Atlanta for Petit Le Mans where it will run as #12."
  2. - 4th place overall at the 2012 6 Hours of Silverstone - Both of the team’s Lola-Toyota cars finished the race - 1st and 3rd in FIA WEC LMP1 Team Trophy - Team extends its lead in the FIA WEC LMP1 Team Trophy classification After a good start from 5th position on the grid, Neel Jani took the lead of the LMP1 privateer field from the first corner, driving his Lola-Toyota #12 to fourth position overall. After a trouble free triple stint, the Swiss driver handed over the wheel to Nicolas Prost who extended their lead on the other competitors. Unfortunately, just after the end of his first stint, the car spun after a contact with the GT #57 which had previously been involved in a contact with the Audi #1 during the third hour of the race. The #12 Lola-Toyota was forced to pit to change tyres and later for a second time after a decision from the stewards for a stop & go penalty. The stop & go was made one lap before the scheduled driver change but the #12 car lost again precious time replacing damaged bodywork at the rear-end a consequence of the earlier contact. Neel Jani took again the wheel from seventh position. Pushing hard to recover, Neel over took the #22 HPD-Honda. The #12 Lola-Toyota of Neel Jani and Nicolas Prost ended the race sixth overall and third in the LMP1 Privateer field. The Lola-Toyota #13 started the race with Andrea Belicchi at the wheel from sixth position. After a strong double stint, Andrea Belicchi gave the wheel to Harold Primat. Fifteen minutes later, the Swiss driver of the #13 overtook the #21 HPD-Honda of Nick Leventis, taking fith position overall. Benefiting from the bad luck of the sister #12 car, the two drivers of #13 Lola-Toyota produced fast stints in defence of their fourth position. Andrea Belicchi had a one-to-one battle with Dany Watts aboard #21 HPD-Honda. Delivering a good balance between performance and consumption, the #13 Lola-Toyota of Andrea Belicchi and Harold Primat secured the best result possible, fourth overall and first of the LMP1 Privateer field. Neel Jani – Lola-Toyota #12 : « I made a good start and put in a strong triple stint. At the mid race, we were, with Nico, fourth overall, one minute ahead of the petrol cars. The penalty and the unscheduled stops ended our race because we lost more than 2 minutes doing this. And as all the cars were driving more or less at the same speed, it has been impossible to catch back up. It's a pity but we have taken the points we could take. We are now 4th in the driver classification and are still aiming for the 3rd place. And we are leading the FIA WEC Trophy of Best Privateer Team.» Nicolas Prost – Lola-Toyota #12 : « Everything was under control until the Ferrari hit me. After that, all went wrong. The damage on the rear of the car forced us to change it. Of course we are sad not to finish first Privateer LMP1 car. I'm disappointed for Neel that have done a very strong race. Nevertheless, we scored good points for the drivers’ classification. We are now in fourth position. » Andrea Belicchi – Lola-Toyota #13 : « All the team have done a fantastic job. I gave my best to stay ahead and it was hard. We had no problem during all the race and we finished with less than seven tenths in front of the Strakka HPD-Honda after a very big fight. After my victory last year here in LMS, this 6 Hours of Silverstone is again a good year ! » Harold Primat – Lola-Toyota # 13 : « This is the conclusion of a very nice week-end. We had very profitable practice sessions that allowed us to secure a good qualifying session, with lap times very tight to the best petrol car laptimes. And our third best laptime during the warm-up session just behind the diesel confirmed our competitivness. We have had a trouble free race. In a way, we have taken benefit of the troubles of our sister car #12. But it is good to see that when one car of the team can't succeed, the other one can. It shows that we are a strong team and I'm happy with that. Personally, I feel more competitive and we'll have to be more and more efficient to stay ahead.» Bart Hayden REBELLION Racing Team manager : «The whole team should be proud of the job they’ve done this weekend. We are now closer than ever to our second main objective of the season with the FIA WEC LMP1 Team Trophy. I am proud of the guys and the drivers. Once again our partners at Toyota Motorsport and Michelin have helped us to achieve this great result. Now we have a lot of work to do to rebuild and prepare the cars for the four overseas races to come.»
  3. Neel Jani achieved the fifth fastest time in the qualifying session for the 6 Hours of Silverstone and in so doing placed the B12/60 Lola-Rebellion # 12 as the second of the petrol prototypes and FIA WEC LMP1 privateer entrant with a lap time of 1'46''160. Andrea Belicchi with the # 13 B12/60 Lola-Toyota set the third fastest time of the petrol field with a laptime of 1'46''234, after being impeded by the trafic during his last fast lap. Even if the fight between LMP1 petrol cars will be tough the team is confident in targeting a podium finishing in tomorrow’s race. Neel Jani – Lola-Toyota #12 : « This qualifying session was not an easy one because we started on a wet track witch dryed after a few laps but not everywhere. I have secured the 5th position on the grid, this is not the result we were aiming, we are only four hundreds behind the #21 Honda. But it doesn't really matter. We are aiming a fourth place finishing overall and perharps a podium in case of problems on the cars ahead... » Nicolas Prost – Lola-Toyota #12 : « We have made a good job during the practice sessions to have a fast car on this demanding track of Silverstone. At the begining, the set-up of the car were clearly not what we were expected and we did not found the right choice of tyres in a first time. After the third free session, we made a leap forward in terms of efficiency. I would have likedone the quali but the track was wet and Neel has driven more laps than me with the car on rainy condition. That's why he did it. We have a strong and consistant car for the race. So we have some assets to play for this race. Toyota car doesn't seem to be as fast as expected.» Andrea Belicchi – Lola-Toyota #13 : « I'm really satisfied with the car we have. We have done a good job to find the right balance. I had some trafic during my fast lap so I couldn't secure a better lap time. But I really like the set up of the car and it makes me feel confident for the race. The paces of all the petrol car are very close each others. That promises good fights during the race ! » Harold Primat – Lola-Toyota # 13 : « The car has been very good from the beginning of the first free session. That means that the team have found good initial set-up. As we had no issue during the two first practices sessions, it has allowed us to try different set-up options. We found good and bad things. For the third session, we made the synthesis and kept only the best set-up. It seems to work not so bad ! The car is good. We are in a good way to make our race. »
  4. In under a week’s time, REBELLION Racing will be putting the team’s two Lola-Toyota B12/60 Coupé LMP1 prototypes through the toughest endurance race in the 80th edition of the Le Mans 24 Hours on 16-17 June. REBELLION Racing will compete at this year’s Le Mans 24 Hours aiming for a podium finish whilst battling for top Privateer and petrol powered honours, repeating last year’s and recent successes. REBELLION Racing finished as the best petrol powered car in the 2011 edition of the Le Mans 24 Hours, a result that helped the team to finish the season as the best Privateer in the championship behind Peugeot’s and Audi’s factory teams. The Swiss team go into this year’s Le Mans 24 Hours as the current leaders of the FIA WEC LMP1 Trophy for best Privateer Team with 37 points after having achieved a 1-2 finish at the last round, the 6 Hours of Spa. REBELLION Racing is heading to Le Mans with confidence and optimism. The team were satisfied with the Le Mans test day last Sunday (3rd of June). All the latest developments pleased the drivers and the engineers were reassured about the potential of the car and its line of progression for the forthcoming race. The former Formula One driver, German Nick Heidfeld, will return to Le Mans for the first time since 1999, when he was there with the AMG-Mercedes factory squad in the #5 Mercedes CLR. It was his first and only participation in the legendary endurance race. The 24 Hour endurance epic begins at 15:00 on Saturday 16 June with live television coverage on Eurosport and commentary via Radio Le Mans (www.radiolemans.com). Bart Hayden, REBELLION Racing Team Manager : "The latest improvements on our cars are all positive and should help us improve our performance in the 24 Hours race. We have really strong driver line-ups and our technical partners at Lola, TMG and Michelin have all worked hard to help us develop the cars. We will be aiming to deliver our optimum performance and with a little good fortune, we hope to figure strongly in the final classifications of the race, we consider repeating 2011’s result as a minimum target.” Nick Heidfeld, Lola-Toyota #12 : “I am really looking forward to this new challenge and I am especially excited to be in a position to target a good result in the Le Mans 24 Hours. My last, and only previous participation to date at Le Mans was in 1999 which was a long while ago. When I did my first laps last Sunday during the Test day it was for me as if I was at the track for the first time as I had no memories of it, I now can’t wait to be back on track on Wednesday for the first sessions of the main event of the season and to race through the night later in the week! “ Neel Jani, Lola-Toyota #12 : “As last year, our goal is to be the best privateer team and best non-hybrid petrol car finishing. We aim to do better than last year, P5 would be perfect. But it will be hard work because in addition to the 6 factory cars of Audi and Toyota, we'll have to face the HPD cars and the Dome that will be very strong competitors. Even though we have a good team and a good car this year, to achieve a strong result will be hard because the competition will be tougher than ever! “ Nicolas Prost, Lola-Toyota #12 : “Each year I go to Le Mans with the same approach. Because this is a long and special race, even if you have raced there several times, you need to approach it with some humility. The team has improved a lot since 2010. Last year we achieved the best result we could expect. The beginning of this season has been very good. We will target again the best possible result: best petrol car and we will see if we can expect something better if some of the factory cars encounter problems... “ Andrea Belicchi, Lola-Toyota #13 : “Le Mans is the biggest race of the year ! But for me, this year will be a special one. The recent earthquakes in Italy hit particularly hard in my home town, and a lot of my family and friends have been affected. Around my house has been destroyed. I have taken a few days of holiday since the Test day, and I will now be able to be focused 100% on the race ! I really enjoy driving at Le Mans with its fantastic corners! My goal will be the same as always, trying to achieve a great result.“ Harold Primat, Lola-Toyota #13 : “I have been part of teams that have had good races at Le Mans in the past. This year, we have the potential to secure a very good result. But because of the performance of the factory cars, we won't have full control on our result in the overall classifications. Nevertheless, we are aiming for the best result that we can. We'll try to have a clean and incident free race. The package we have now will help us to achieve that. There is a very good relationship between the drivers, and that helps us to deal with the pressure of the race. Everyone is pushing hard in the same direction, there is a challenging spirit but no rivalry. I think that is what helps make the success of a team in endurance racing. “ Jeroen Bleekemolen, Lola-Toyota #13 : “I'm happy to be here again. We had a good result last year being the fastest petrol in the race. Last race at Spa we saw that we have a strong package, everything is looking good. Le Mans is the race that everyone wants to be part of and I enjoy particularly racing here in the top category. I’ve made no special preparations but the feeling is always different when you are getting ready for the Le Mans Race. It's a great event and it is great to be part of it !”
  5. As the only opportunity to test on the unique Le Mans 24 Hours circuit, the test day was of paramount importance ahead of the race next week. The team’s six drivers, Nick Heidfeld, Neel Jani, Nicolas Prost in the Lola-Toyota #12 and Andrea Belicchi, Harold Primat and Jeroen Bleekemeolen at the wheel of the #13 completed scheduled work programme, thus carrying out important development work with the new Le Mans aero kit and gathering valuable data for the engineers in the team, TMG and Michelin. Andrea Belicchi, Harold Primat and Jeroen Bleekemolen aboard Lola-Toyota #13 set the fastest laptime of the petrol/privateer field in the afternoon session, as the car was third fastest in the morning session. The sister Lola-Toyota car #12 ended the day with the second fastest laptime in the morning session and the third fastest in the afternoon. The REBELLION Racing team were satisfied with the Le Mans test day. All the latest developments pleased the drivers and the engineers were reassured about the potential of the car and its line of progression for the forthcoming Le Mans 24 Hours race. REBELLION Racing will compete at the 80th edition of Le Mans 24 Hours aiming for a podium finish whilst battling for top Privateer and petrol powered honours, repeating last year’s and recent successes. REBELLION Racing is heading to Le Mans 24 Hours, next week, as the leader of the FIA World Endurance Championship LMP1 Trophy for best Privateer Team with 37 points and a 1-2 finish at the last round, the 6 Hours of Spa. REBELLION Racing finished as the best petrol powered car in last year edition of Le Mans 24 Hours, a result that helped the team to finish the season as the best Privateer in the team classification behind Peugeot’s and Audi’s factory teams. Bart Hayden, REBELLION Racing Team Manager: "The latest improvements on the cars are all pointing in the right direction and should help us improve our performance at the 24 Hours race. We will focus on our races and work hard to target the best position overall, we consider repeating 2011 result as a minimum target. One of our main competitor, the #15 OAK Racing car endured a severe shunt during morning session. We are saddened that Guillaume Moreau has suffered an injury in his back. Our thoughts are with him, his family and the whole OAK Racing team. We wish him a full recovery and hope to see him back as soon as possible." Andrea Belicchi, Lola-Toyota #13 : «I am pleased with our work today but it was not easy for me to be 100% focused. The hearthquake in Italy have touched particularly my homeplace, and a lot of my family and friends have been involved. My whole house has been destroyed. That's why I'm living a difficult time. When I am behind the wheel I completly forget these problems and I'm happy to do my job and trying to improve the car for the race. I'm going to take a few days off and next week, I'll be 100% focused to the race !» Nick Heidfeld, Lola-Toyota #12 : My last, and only one, participation at Le Mans was in 1999. It is far away from now. As I had no memories from the track, for me it is as if I was beginning from scratch. This session was important for me beacause I had to run 10 laps to qualify for the race... and to learn a bit more about the track. That I did in the morning. My first feeling is that driving on Le Mans track is more fun that I remembered ! We had less down force on the car than for the previous races of the season. I had not as much traffic as I experienced on the other tracks that are shorter. And I had some good clear laps, too. So I had good conditions to drive on this so particular track... and to appreciate it ! I now can’t wait to be back next week for the main event ! »
  6. The past weeks have been turbulent as the news broke that an Administrator had been appointed at Lola Cars International Limited and Lola Composites Limited. We hope that a positive outcome will emerge from the Administration period. For ourselves, at REBELLION Racing, our focus is very much that the show must go on and so we are focussed on the challenges ahead. REBELLION Racing will work with the companies that have been part of the vast array of subcontract suppliers to Lola Cars International and we will continue campaigning our two Lola-Toyota B12/60 coupes for the rest of the season with the aim of securing the 2012 FIA Endurance Trophy for the best private LMP1 team. REBELLION Racing will compete at the 80th edition of Le Mans 24 Hours with the team’s two updated Lola-Toyota B12/60 coupes aiming for a podium finish whilst battling for top Privateer and petrol powered honours, repeating last year’s and recent successes. The team will introduce from this weekend, during Le Mans Test Day, a new low downforce aerodynamic package on both of the cars. It is an update produced by Lola for the new Lola-Toyota B12/60 coupes, successfully introduced during the last FIA WEC round at Spa last month, in order to fit with the Le Mans track’s main requirements: low drag and high top speed. REBELLION Racing finished as the best petrol powered car in the 2011 edition of Le Mans 24 Hours, a result that helped the team to finish the season as the best Privateer in the championship behind Peugeot’s and Audi’s factory teams. REBELLION Racing is heading to this year’s Le Mans 24 Hours as the leader of the FIA WEC LMP1 Trophy for best Privateer Team with 37 points and a 1-2 finish at the last round, the 6 Hours of Spa. Sunday’s official test will be intense as the team have scheduled, on top of other requirements, specific work programmes for the new aero kit, for tyres choices and strategy with Michelin and for engine development with TMG. Bart Hayden, REBELLION Racing Team Manager : « This Sunday’s Le Mans Test Day is a rare occasion to test the cars on the Le Mans 24 Hours track, especially the newly resurfaced part on the Mulsanne straight, so it is very important for us to have both cars fitted with the 2012 « Le Mans » aero kit, as scheduled. We have a detailed programme of work for each of the two cars to gain as much information as possible after their first outing at Spa last month and to compare the on-track performance to the simulations. If the rain comes on Sunday we will have to deal with it like we did at Spa last month. If we are missing data on the dry after Sunday’s test, it will be the same for everyone! In any case, I think we are ready where we wanted to be.
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