The Le Mans Endurance Series or LMES is a European racing series created as a support series to the famed 24 hours of Le Mans race. It is modeled after the American Le Mans Series a similar racing series in the United States. 2004 was the inaugural season and consisted of four 1000 Km races. The races were at Monza, Nurburgring, Silverstone and SPA. The series uses the same rules and regulations as the Automobile Club de L'Ouest (ACO), which is the sanctioning body for the 24 hours of Le Mans race. The series includes four classes of competition: GT; GTS; [LM]P2; and [LM]P1. The GT and GTS classes are production car based, while the [LM]P2 and [LM]P1 classes are open prototype cars. At the end of the four races a winner is declared based on point accumulation throughout the season.
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[1] (http://www.lmes.net) The official LMES website
The prestigious Petit LeMans at Road Atlanta is a grueling 1,000-mile/10-hour event held in the fall and is a pivotal race for the championship.
Series races are run under the ACO rules, with the events sanctioned and conducted by IMSA (International Motor Sports Association).
The Series builds its yearly schedule of events around LeMans, allowing teams to participate in the pre-practice event in early June and remain in Europe for the mid-June running of the race.
Les circonstances dans lesquelles Hayanari Shimoda a gagné la quatrième manche de LeMansEnduranceSeries 2005, en Allemagne, illustrent parfaitement le caractère hautement spectaculaire de cette discipline depuis le début de l'année.
Les pilotes abordent ce rendez-vous avec respect malgré la création pour des motifs légitimes de sécurité d'un enchaînement serré gauche droite gauche qui réduit la vitesse d'approche de la Curva et d'un gauche droite très sec avant le mythique Lesmo.
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