Le Mans entry list

The ACO have today announced the entry list for the 77th edition of the Le Mans 24 hours - see Autosport - including 55 confirmed entries.

The highlights:

LM-P1 - 21 cars, including 5 Audis, 4 Peugeots and 4 Aston Martins 

LM-P2 - 12 cars, including various Lola Mazdas and the Judd engined variants up against 3 Porsche RS Spyders

GT1 - 8 cars, 4 Corvettes, 2 Aston DBR9 and 2 Lamborghini

GT2 - 14 cars, including 9 Ferrari F430 (so Porsche with 3 entries should probably win this class again).  There's a lone Aston V8 Vantage in here for Drayson Racing too!

Driver confirmations will no doubt happen quite shortly but the big thing in LMP1 is the 3 new Audi R15s for the factory + 2 R10s for privateer Kolles racing, plus 3 Peugeot for the factory and 1 to be run by Le Mans legend Henri Pescarolo (alongside one of his own petrol cars).

Also 4 Astons was more than I certainly was expecting! 2 'factory' cars plus 2 other entries.

Clearly although Le Mans and the whole of sportscar racing isn't anything like the costs of F1 and the rest things aren't looking too bad at this stage!