2015 Oreca 05-Nissan

Bradley, Howson and Lapierre, Oreca 05-Nissan, Le Mans 24 hours 2015

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Oreca, Magny Cours, France.  Oreca is a manufacturer of racing cars since 2008 and specialises in the LM P2 class.  The 05 first run in 2015 but quickly scored its first class win at Imola in May and then in June finished 9th overall and won the LM P2 class at Le Mans.  Following that it continued the year with class wins at Nurburgring and Estoril.  In 2016 it has had class wins at Spa, Imola, Red Bull ring, Le Mans and the Nurburgring.  Various teams use this car including KCMG (pictured), Thiriet and Signatech Alpine.  The body is fully enclosed and made of Kevlar and slightly narrower than most LM P2 cars.  The one pictured has a 4.5 litre Nissan V8 engine producing nearly 450hp..

1949 Porsche 356 SL Gmünd Coupé

1949 Porsche 356 SL, Porsche Rennsport Reunion V, Laguna Seca 2015

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Porsche, Gmünd, Austria.  After the war Porsche moved to Gmünd in Austria to design his own cars. They were rear engined roadsters and coupés built around Volkswagen components.  With an aluminium body and an air-cooled boxer 4 cylinder engine these cars started the Porsche tradition. The aluminium bodies later became steel and Porsche moved back to Germany but Porsche kept some aluminium bodies as super light works competition cars.  In 1951 they entered the Le Mans 24 hours and the car pictured won the 1,100cc class beating the French DB Panhard and also the 1,500cc class winning Jowett Jupiter.   This was Porsche's first entry into the Le Mans 24 hours, a race they would eventually win for the first time in 1970. In 1952 one of these cars won the Liege-Rome-Liege rally.