Benjamin Leuenberger looks back on a successful 2009 season. In a Lola-Judd B08/80-Judd, the young Swiss competed along with his teammates Jonny Kane (GB) and Xavier Pompidou (F) in the Le Mans Series and the legendary 24 hours of Le Mans. After a class victory in the 1000km of Silverstone in September and second place [...]

The ACO has published the official entry list for the Le Mans 24 Hours. Both Speedy Racing cars made it onto the list and will defentley take part in the famous race in June. Whilst the Speedy Racing LMP1 car will race against 9 Diesel powered cars from Audi and Peugeot, I see the [...]

With great pleasure I announce that I signed a contract to race the Swiss Speedy Racing Lola/Judd LMP2 in the Le Mans Series and at Le Mans this year. Assuming that our entry for the 24 hours of Le Mans will be accepted by the ACO.
After 4 years in different GT classes, I’m looking forward [...]

C8 LAVIOLETTE LM85

Spyker introduces the C8 Laviolette LM85 of which a maximum of 24 production slots are being offered.
The LM85 has been designed in the spirit of our Spyker Squadron GT2 (LMES) race cars and sports a GT2 inspired livery. The LM85 is named after the starting number of our GT2 cars we have had [...]

A Year With Spyker
Benjamin Leuenberger Looks Back
It was early spring 2007 when I had contact with Alexander Pesci and Michel Darbellay from Speedy Garage for the first time. They invited me to join their test at Valencia in order to get to know each other. Although the [...]

You were waiting for it. The new Le Mans Series calendar is ready!
Five races, on circuits which are the “classicals” of the series: Barcelone, Spa-Francorchamps, le Nürburgring, Silverstone, but also a novelty this year with the 1000 Km of Algarve, in Portugal. This round will moreover be a night race!

Silverstone, 14 September 2008 – This morning at twenty minutes past eleven the field of almost 50 cars crossed the starting line for the Le Mans Series ‘Autosport 1000 km of Silverstone’. The last race for SNORAS Spyker Squadron this season was one of mixed results; the #94 Speedy Racing Team car finished 8th after [...]

Silverstone, 13 September 2008 – The Spyker Laviolette’s will start from a 6th and 10th position in tomorrow’s ‘Autosport 1000 km of Silverstone’, the last round in this year’s Le Mans Series race season. The weekend started for the Dutch team with two free-practice sessions on Friday. Although the first free practice session was held [...]

The fifth and final round of the Le Mans Series at Silverstone over 12-14 September can be seen on TV at the following times:
Sunday 14.9.2008

Eurosport
12:15
22:00
Motors TV (live)
12:00-14:00
16:00-18.30
Live Radio
www.radiolemans.com

Nürburgring, 17 Augustus 2008 – After a long break in the Le Mans Series calendar, the last race was at Spa in May, the championship continued this weekend with the Nürburgring 1000 km. In the hard-fought race, the #85 SNORAS Spyker C8 Laviolette GT2R finished in fifth place.
Just before noon the Spyker Laviolette’s left their [...]

Nürburgring, 16 Augustus 2008 – In sunny weather conditions SNORAS Spyker Squadron qualified seventh and ninth for tomorrows Nürburgring 1000 km race. Peter Dumbreck qualified the #85 SNORAS Spyker Squadron car and set a quickest time of 1:59.613, 1.7 seconds behind the GT2 pole position. Benjamin Leuenberger set a best of 2:00.132 in the #94 [...]

The fourth round of the season will benefit from an exceptional TV exposure plan : 3 hours live on Eurosport 2, the whole race live on Motors TV, and more lives, summaries and rebroadcasts on more than 25 channels all over the world…you can’t find any excuse to leave your favorite teams without any support!

Eurosport [...]

At exactly three o’clock this afternoon the field of 55 prototypes and GT’s crossed the finish line. For the first time the green flag was not waved from the Rolex tower at the finish line but at 400 kms above the track from the international space station.
Swiss Andrea Chiesa started the race in the #94 [...]

Le Mans, 12 June – After yesterday’s action packed qualifying sessions, the teams got another chance today to further improve their race setup and qualifying times today. Like yesterday two two-hour session were scheduled and today’s goal was to finalise a satisfactionary setup for this weekend’s race.

The number 85 Spyker C8 Laviolette GT2R, driven by [...]

Both crews continued to work on a further refinement of the setup in a session dominated by accidents. The first qualifying session this evening, the third out of a total of four sessions, started at 19:00 in dry conditions. Just before the start a few showers caused the track to be wet but with the [...]

Besides completing the mandatory three night laps for each driver, the Dutch team continued to work on the setup of their cars for the race in the second two-hour session today. Although the #85 car with Peter Dumbreck behind the wheel did improve times their plans for a quick lap towards the end of the [...]

After last weeks weather drama the majority of time in the first session was spent on installation laps and setup of both cars. Alexei Vasiliev started in the #85 car before switching places with Ralf Kelleners after 40 minutes. The weather conditions in Le Mans are windy, dry and with 25 degrees at the begin [...]

Another major step was taken yesterday in SNORAS Spyker Squadron’s road to Le Mans. Early in the morning both cars were transported by truck to the ‘Place des Jacobins’, downtown Le Mans, for the official ACO scruteneering. A large crowd gathered in the historical city centre to watch the administrative and technical checks from close [...]

As per last Wednesday SNORAS Spyker Squadron exchanged their Zeewolde based workshop for their new home: two pit boxes, three trailers and an old land house inside the track form their base of operations for the upcoming 24 Hours of Le Mans in two weeks time.

Before the team could jointly work with the drivers on [...]