Car looks ok, I’m betting it will have a hard time beating the vettes/porsches/ferraris but atleast it’s another car out there. :tup:
http://www.americanlemans.com/index_news.php?n=12831
http://www.planetlemans.com/2009/04/17/rocketsports-racing-unveils-alms-gt2-program/
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/74550
Jaguar is set to return to the Le Mans 24 Hours next year with a XKR GT2 contender developed in the US by Paul Gentilozzi’s Rocketsports team. Rocketsports announced today in Long Beach that it will join the ultra-competitive GT2 class of the American Le Mans Series in the middle of this season. That will be precursor to a full programme in 2010 that should put a Jaguar back on the grid at Le Mans for the first time since 1995.
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“The plan for 2010 is definitely to compete at Le Mans. To get there you have to have a relationship with the Automobile Club de l’Ouest [the race organisers] and that is something we are already developing with as we work with as we work towards joining the ALMS in the summer.”
Rocketsports is entering the ALMS with technical and marketing support from Jaguar. Gentilozzi, whose company won four Trans-Am titles under the banner of the British sportscar manufacturer, stressed that there was no commercial support.
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Gentilozzi, 59, expects to race the new Jaguar in what he is billing as a development year.
“We are developing the car this year,” he said, “and I feel I’m best for that job.”
The second, undisclosed driver was described by Gentilozzi as “very experienced and a world class guy”.
“For 2010, we will only have drivers we know who can win,” he said. “We expect to have at least one European, hopefully a British guy.”
Gentilozzi said the first XKR would begin testing in June. It should race for the first time in either the Lime Rock ALMS round in July or at Mid-Ohio in August.