Luxury Racing
Luxury Racing is a motor racing team from France that formed in 2009. The team specialises in endurance racing, more specifically the FIA [World Endurance Championship] and has solely used Ferraris since 2011.
History
2011
The team had its first venture in the 24 [Hours of Le Mans] in 2011 [24 Hours of Le Mans|2011], where they raced two cars in the LMGTE Pro class. They qualified 36th and 41st, which is 8th and 13th in their class with the #59 and #58 cars respectively.Unfortunately, both cars didn't finish the race, with the #58 car managing only 136 laps, and the #59 car lasting a further 47 with 183 laps.
2012
For the 2012 [24 Hours of Le Mans], the team qualified first in the LMGTE Pro class with the #59 car, which was 34th overall and just under five tenths of a second faster than the nearest competitor while the #58 car in the LMGTE Am class qualified in 44th, one place ahead of one of the LMP2 cars.During the race, the #58 car retired after 146 laps, while the #59 car went on to complete 333 laps and finish the race in 18th, which was 2nd in their class after losing out to the winner by 3 laps. This also marked the team's first finish in the event since its debut in 2011.