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Happy birthday E-Team !
First of all today is the E-Team 1st birthday ! Indeed one year earlier Ludovic "Mr.Crash" LeHenaff and Morgan "MoMo92i" Trollé decided to creat this motivated French team specialized in Endurance from their old french team which was full of inactive member.
In only one year E-Team manage to grow up really well ! The first race of the team was LFS Endurance Series season 3 race 6 at Fern Bay black were 3 E-Team cars were but only one finished, driven by J. Pinheiro and finished 2nd in GT350 class. The first E-Team podium wasn't a long time after that and it happened in the GTAL test race were T. Le Revert and M. Trollé conclude a good race in 3rd position. Our first win could have been in GTAL round 1 but unfortunately B. Whitcher have had some troubles and the FZR #08 was logically DQ after the race whereas it crossed the line first but the week after that M. Trollé with the help of J.F. Sebire from RENESIS team won the round 7 of LFS Endurance Series at Aston GT (9hours race) with their XRR #101.
Since this April 11th, E-Team begun a victoryfull period continuing with LFSes round 8 with Trollé again, then Dubois and Trollé won another two races in the GTAL at Fern Bay black and South City and finally E-Team was clamed GTAL champion after a big controversy and another podium (2nd) in the GTAL final round. Moreover Trollé & Pinheiro won two of the three driver championship of the LFSes.
In September 2009, E-Team have new challenge : Indeed we were accepted in MoE, the best LFS league and started another GTAL season with our FZR #01.
Unfortunately this new season wasn't like the other one and our beginning in MoE was quite disappointing with a too much errors 12th position at Kyoto GP and a too unlucky 12th in SO, and the last unlucky 11th in the 24 hours of Aston. GTAL was quite the same with a really bad 18th at Blackwood and an damagefull 12th at SO. But of course there was some better races like this 7th position at Westhill in MoE and 4th at Kyoto in GTAL and these 3 podiums for N. Vallée in LFSes.
But E-Team drivers raced in iTCC too with a nice podium for Vallée in Round 1 race 1 and a top 5 for Trollé in round 2.
So...a plenty first year and Happy birthday E-Team again !
Some other news :
A new driver in E-Team !
We are proud to announce and to welcome Sean "xtraction" Williams in E-Team.
Morgan Trollé said "We were quite impressive of his motivation for GTAL's South City round doing more than 600 laps ! We thought that this is exactly the profil we wanted : a good driver who reach to improve by training seriously for the race".
Sean have already raced in IGTC for TDRT and in GTAL for Optix and finished 12th of his first race for E-Team with Pierre Peron.
A birthday race tomorrow :
In order to celebrate his first birthday, E-Team organise some race for fun tomorrow evening. Two sprint karting races are planned.
More infos here :
http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=65392
Some MoE news :
E-Team will try to catch a top 10 in the next MoE races which will take place at Aston Historic Reverse (AS4R) on february 13th. Hervé Dubois, Fabrice Bankhauser, Nicolas Vallée and Morgan Trollé have already begun the training !
E-Team back in DoP :
After the race of Blackwood, E-Team is going to take part of the last DoP season race : 24hours of AS4R. Two cars will defend the E-Team's colors :
FZR #72 E-Team spirit of Le Mans :
- V. Adriaenssens
- F. Bankhauser
- H. Dubois
- P. Peron
- M. Trollé
FXR #06 E-Team FXR
- R. Thomas
- L. LeHenaff
- N. Vallée
Vallée and Trollé throw the carnage !
The second round of iTCC 2010 took place at Kyoto National ring. 3 E-Drivers managed to race in the main race : N. Vallée (9th in points before this race), P. Peron ( 2nd of the Shootout) and M. Trollé. Trollé manage to qualify in top 10 whereas Peron was 16th and Vallée 23rd. The first race was quite safe exept for Peron who was involved in several crash. Trollé finished 10th and score his first point in iTCC. Race 2 was like hell ! But Trollé and Vallée manage to avoid wreck and scored points ! Morgan finished 5th and Nicolas 10th. In the 3rd race Nicolas wasn't able to keep his pole position and lost all his chance after he misses his brakepoint in lap 8. Morgan couldn't be better than 12th because of a strange car with the ballast.
A new fail in GTAL :
After the nice but lucky race in Kyoto, South city's one was another disaster. First, E-Team receive a 5 post penalty in quali from previous round aborded start. Then Peron made the pole position (1.34.99) but unfortunately chat while he wanted to leave the server causing us to lose this time and start 11th instead of 5th. Sean Williams who started the race because of F. Bankhauser internet troubles (@Yann Laprevotte : another France Telecom friend !) spun after the safety car deployment, back to the back of the field. Pierre Peron took over in 12th manage to overtake several cars to be in 6th after 2hours but he needs to fix damage meaning E-Team to be 12th finally. (provisionnal results).