Monday, February 27, 2023

Proud of our team

Wow.  I wake up this morning to some incredible news!  Now, I know what you are thinking.  Where on earth are the promised race reports from European Le Mans 2022 and Asian Le Mans 2023?  Well, folks, have patience.  Those are coming.  But there is bigger news to talk about.  Those races which I will bring to you are part of how we got to where we are now.  The official entry list of the centenary of the 24 Hours of Le Mans has been released, and here is the biggest news!  My friends at Action Express Racing, are on the list!  We are going to Le Mans!  Never in my wildest dreams did I think this would happen!  This is amazing!  Pipo Derani, Alexander Sims, and Jack Aitken, our dynamic trio, will spearhead the effort for us racing at Le Mans!  There are many, many other intriguing entries for the centenary edition of the French endurance classic.  

We shall carry a triple digit number in France.  Since there is already a car registered for the full World Endurance Championship with the #31 on it, the WRT Oreca in LMP2 competition, Action Express will return to a long-held tradition in the early days of sports car racing and we shall carry a three-digit number on the predominantly red Whelen Engineering Cadillac.  We shall run #311 on the car at the 24 Hours of Le Mans and be a part of a grid of Le Mans Hypercars and Le Mans Daytona Hypercars, which shows the convergence of the two forms of prototype racing coming to fruition.  Our main competition will come from two Ganassi Racing factory Cadillac's along with two Porsche Penske Motorsport Porsche 963's, the multiple winning Toyota GR010 Hypercar's, from Toyota Gazoo Racing, the factory AF Corse run Ferrari 499P Hypercar's, an additional Porsche 963 from Jota Sport from England, two Peugeot 9X8 hybrids, and two Glickenhaus 007 LMH Hybrids.  

To these competitors, we say, bring it!  We will showcase American ingenuity with an American race car and an American sponsor in our partners at Whelen Engineering.  Winning is what we want to do even though we face extremely stiff competition.  This is Le Mans.  This is the citadel of endurance sports car racing.  The citadel, the Everest, the Grand Prix of endurance.  We are up to and accept this challenge.  We Expect to Win.  But, truly, it is Circuit de la Sarthe, the great ribbon of asphalt we shall compete on in the French countryside that shall choose the best car and best team to win.  Le Mans, she is an elegant and yet formidable grand lady.  She shall choose, the circuit shall, who she wants to see win the race.  But that does not mean we shall just accept being an additional team in the 17 strong field of Hypercars.

We are going to go out there, and give Toyota, Glickenhaus, Porsche, Peugeot, our fellow Cadillac's, and the factory Ferrari's, a run for everything they have.  We have the best drivers and the best team, for sure.  When you see a bright red Cadillac in your mirrors on the fabled Mulsanne straight at Le Mans, to our competition, we will race you.  We will race you, fairly, cleanly, but, we still will be right there to prove that we belong in the greatest endurance sports car race on the face of the planet.  Bon chance, Action Express.  Pipo, Alexander, Jack, good luck, and Godspeed in racing the big one.  This is going to be mega!  Bring on the month of June!  I can't wait!



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