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    Some pictures of the men who drive the C8 Laviolette GT2R.
















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    - but who are they

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      SNORAS Spyker Squadron, car #85

      Peter Dumbreck (SCO)
      Peter was born on 13 October 1973 and lives in Scotland. He embarked on a driving career as early as 11 years old when he began karting in his local track in Fife, Scotland. He dominated the Formula Vauxhall Junior championship taking eight wins on his way to becoming overall champion.

      From there he moved into F3 with Jackie Stewart’s team and a year later he got the opportunity to race for the Works Factory Tom’s Toyota Team driving in the Japanese Formula 3 Championship which he subsequently won.

      1999 saw Peter contracted for Mercedes-Benz to race in their high-profile Le-Mans project. For the next five years Peter joined the DTM (Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters) Championship, continuing his link with Mercedes-Benz and later joining Opel.

      In 2005 Peter returned to Le Mans for the first time since his 1999 crash in the Mercedes to race the Spyker Squadron GT2 car. Peter finished on the podium with Spyker last year in the LMS 1000 km of Silverstone.

      Ralf Kelleners (GER)
      Ralf Kelleners is born on the 18th of May 1968 and began his driving career in 1986 competing in the European Go kart Championship, claiming a second place, one place before Michael Schumacher. The following year he made the jump to the German Formula Ford 2000 series, and went from there to the Formula 3 series and later he also began competing in the German Group N Touring class.

      In 1991 he competed in the DTM in a BMW M3 before heading back into the German group N Touring class in 1992 where finished in second place in the series championship.

      Ralf was the GT1 class winner in the inaugural Petit Le Mans in 1998 and has made appearances in the ALMS since its inception in 1999. Since the late 90's up to now Ralf has been driving in numerous GT and Sportscar races in Europe and the USA. Ralf owns a successful BMW tuning business, Kelleners Sport, in Dinslaken, Germany.

      Alexey Vasiliev (RUS)
      Alexey is born on the 13th of January 1972 and lives in Moscow, Russia. In ’89 Alexey finished 2nd in the Russian National Karting Championship. Before he started racing GT cars with Freisinger Motorsport in 2000 he won the Russian Touring Car Championship in both ’96 and ’97.

      He joined Russian Age Racing in 2005 to compete in the FIA GT Championship and Le Mans with a Ferrari 550 Maranello.

      Speedy Racing Team, car #94

      Andrea Chiesa (SUI)
      Andrea Chiesa was born in Milan on the 6th of May 1964 but carries the Swiss nationality. Andrea started his driver career at the age of sixteen in karts.

      He switched to cars in 1985, competing in Italian Formula 3 and Formula 3000 before he progressed in 1992 to Formula One and raced with the Fondmetal team.

      Last year Andrea raced for Swiss Spyker dealer team Speedy Racing in the Spyker C8 Spyder GT2 car in both the Le Mans Series and the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The team finished in a 5th overall position in the Le Mans Series.

      Benjamin Leuenberger (SUI)
      Benjamin is born on the 11th of June 1982 and lives in Switzerland. At the age of 11 Benjamin started his motor sport career with go karts before switching to open wheel in 1998. Later that year he attended the BMW Junior School and won an entry in the 1999 BMW ADAC Formula Junior Cup. In his first season of German BMW ADAC Formula Junior Cup he was the driver to beat and won the series.

      From 2000 to 2001 he raced in various open wheel series before receiving an invitation to join the Porsche Junior Selection where Benjamin finished 2nd to Mike Rockenfeller.

      From there Benjamin drove various GT and Sportscars in the FIA GT, ALMS, LMS and at Le Mans. In 2003 he became a Panoz factory driver in the ALMS and in the 24 hours of Le Mans driving the Panoz LMP1 Roadster. In 2006 he competed in various FIA-GT and LMS races with the All-inkl.com Lamborghini together with Frenchman Christophe Bouchut.

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