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News Release from: Huntsman Advanced Materials | Subject: Pescarolo
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 22 June 2007
Pescarolo Sport makes a strong finish at
Le Mans
Huntsman Advanced Materials and adhesives helped the leading French motor sports team, Pescarolo Sport to a strong finish in 3rd place at the Le Mans 24 Hour Endurance Race
The Pescarolo Judd LMP1 car, driven by Jean-Christophe Boullion, Romain Dumas and Emmanuel Collard was one of 28 prototype cars taking part in the race and was developed using a range of Huntsman rapid prototyping materials and shared technical expertise with the Pescarolo engineers The Huntsman materials used in the Pescarolo development project included a range of high performance products, such as:
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 20 Jun 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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Michel Elkoubi, of Pescarolo Sport, who managed the development collaboration with Huntsman Advanced Materials said "We are absolutely delighted to have put in such a strong performance at Le Mans, the toughest event in endurance motorsport.
Working with Huntsman for materials and supporting technical expertise was a major factor in our car's excellent result here.
Having world-leading high performance materials available to us ensured we could produce a prototype car of the highest possible standard.
The durability of those materials has been proved here this weekend and we'd like to thank Huntsman Advanced Materials again for all the support!.
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