After 10 grueling hours racing, the little Creation Autosportif Team from the UK beat off a race-long charge from rivals Playstation Pescarolo Sport to finish an excellent 3rd place in the prestigious Mil Milhas endurance event, marking the final round of the Le Mans Series for 2008.

Joined by quick Englishman Stuart Hall for the event, Creation regulars Jamie Campbell-Walter (Scotland)and Felipe Ortiz (Switzerland) were quickly at home in their familiar surroundings and Hall adapted very quickly to the factory Creation CA07-Judd chassis, having driven a Pescarolo chassis all year for rival privateer British team 'Rollcentre Racing'. Though unable to challenge the superior factory backed Peugeot entries Jamie stamped his authority on qualifying for the 'rest' of the field, ending up almost a full second faster than the usually quick Jean-Christophe Boullion (France) in the factory Pescarolo.

Despite a brief threat of 'Sao Paulo' rain on race morning, the entire 374 lap International event was run in dry, warm conditions. Jamie took the start, staying with the Peugeots for a few laps before settling into race rhythm, and trading places with Boullion in the Pescarolo and Michael Vergers (Holland) in the Barazi Gulf Zytek P2. Everything seemed settled until just before 2 hours. Felipe (Ortiz) had been in the car no more than a handful of laps when he made an unscheduled pit stop. It transpired that he was clipped by a slower GT2 Porsche so he chose to make a stop to check for damage. Nothing was found and he resumed the race in 4th position. Then just after 2 hours, Boullion appeared on the Tv screens, the Pescarolo limping around with a lot of smoke coming from the front corner. Once in the pits the team wheeled the car into the garage and set about changing the front suspension wishbone. This proved a costly failure for the French team as they slipped back to the foot of the running order.

After these early incidents the race was very much trouble-free for Creation. Slick, faultless pit stops from the crew coupled with the drivers maintaining an excellent pace with much discipline and consistency mean't for an excellent outcome. Despite the Pescarolo team's late charge it wasn't enough to close the 5 lap cushion. Ex-Creation driver Nic Minassian (France) and team mate Marc Gene (Spain) took race honours from their team mates (Pedro Lamy-Portugal / Stephane Sarrazin-France).

This event marked Creation's 3rd consecutive race away from home and in turn their 3rd podium finish in a row. This one was special however. The team proved their worth with a new car, still under development in the ALMS races, and importantly proved consistent reliability, pace and discipline to be the 'best' of the LMP1 petrol cars, in the Le Mans Series.

Mil Milhas race, Sao Paulo, Brazil

After a hectic final qualifying session yesterday afternoon, Briton's Jamie Campbell-Walter wrestled the Soto-Alto backed Creation CA07-Judd P1 to a fine 3rd place on the starting grid, just a half second ahead of the Playstation Pescarolo-Judd P1. Raceday weather is expected to be in the low 70's with cloud cover and a chance of showers at some point during the day.

The race will be broadcast on www.lmes.net tomorrow via live-feed and viewers in Europe can see the coverage also via television, through Motors TV, Nuvolari Tv, Galaxie Sport and 7 Russia TV. The 374 lap 12 hour race starts at 12 noon local time (9am EST, 2pm GMT), finishing at 11pm local.

Following 2 successful podium finishes in 2 consecutive American Le Mans races, Creation are racing in the finale of the 'European' Le Mans Series (www.lmes.net) this weekend at the famous Interlagos circuit, Sao Paulo, Brazil, in the annual and equally famous 'Mil Milhas' 1000 miles race.

Practice sessions are currently being held leading up to this weekend's race. Andy Woolgar, spokesman for the team, comments "So far all appears to be good with the Creation CA07/Judd team. After Wednesday's 'free practice' we ended up the day in 4th overall, and after this morning's first practice session we just slipped from 3rd on the final lap of the last session, back to 4th thanks to a quick time from rival Jean-Christophe Boullion in the Pescarolo-Judd LMP1."

In front of a record crowd and under the Californian sun, Harold Primat and Jamie Campbell-Walter drove brilliantly to take British team Creation Autosportif's second consecutive American Le Mans Series (ALMS) podium finish at Laguna Seca Raceway (Monetrey, CA) this past weekend, beating off stiff opposition in the form of the Arena Motorsport Zytek of Darren Manning and Tom Chilton.

Creation Team Principal Ian Bickerton: "I love America! I think two trophies from two races in the ALMS, we can't ask for more than that. The competition is well stiff out here at the moment and we need to up our game to match theirs. I think we know how to now. We have learnt a lot in the last three weeks out here and hopefully we can pull together a deal to go to Interlagos (Brazil) and finish the season off there. I think we've done a great job, and look forward to being back here next year."

Jamie Campbell-Walter: "What is incredible is that last year P1 and P2 on the grid was the Zytek and the Creation and that, after four hours of racing, Darren Manning (#10 Zytek) and I were still racing hard again this year. But the pace of the manufacturers such as the Acuras, the Porsche Spyders and Audi is incredible. While we improved by seven or eight tenths from last year, they've moved on by about three seconds. But all credit to the team; we've come here and got two podiums from two races and well done to all the sponsors that helped this US campaign happen, Market 500.com, Bank Baring Brothers Suisse, ClickCulture, Piedmont Triad Partnership, Arsenik, Alphabet, the team and the Dunlop tyres.

Harold Primat, who started the race for the Creation team and completed almost two hours in the car, was equally pleased with his two-race stay in the United States. "It feels really good to be back on the podium here at Laguna Seca, and to finish the season on a high. It's been a lot of work to get through this race; it's obviously a very competitive series and it's really difficult to compete with Manufacturers now. We have been working hard and trying out best and luckily our best today made the podium in the P1 class. We have been very fortunate and I'm delighted to have had two podiums in the two ALMS races with Creation. They seem to know my face a little bit as every time I come here I've been on the podium, and with Creation, so it's a really good ratio. Hopefully I can keep it up. I have one more race to go in Brazil, this time with Pescarolo, and hopefully I can end up with a similar result. I've been very happy with the time with Creation and have enjoyed spending the time driving with Jamie as well. It's been a very good campaign, like last year."

Jamie continued "We had a bit of a problem getting our tyres up to temperature after the safety car periods. While everyone suffered from this a bit, us and Zytek seemed to suffer more than most. In the last stint, we had to stop under green and the Zytek had got in front of us, we were lucky because we put a new set of tyres on just at the crucial moment. Mine came in quicker than his, as a new tyre, and I was able to overtake him in a do or die move at the Corkscrew. I hadn't come all this way to finish 4th. I wasn't really into that! I'm really pleased."

RALEIGH, N.C. &ndash Lloyd Jacobs, CEO of ClickCulture, Inc., has announced that the firm is sponsoring the Creation Autosportif racing team, based in Oxford, England and with offices in Winston Salem, NC. The team competes in International Sports Car races such as the Le Mans Endurance Series (www.lmes.net) and the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) where teams compete in hi-tech two-seat sports cars for up to 24 hours at a time. These racing series were inspired by the world-famous 24 Hours of Le Mans race in France and have been in existence since the 1950's.

Andy Woolgar, Commercial Manager for Creation's US operations commented "It's an absolute pleasure to have the support and dedication of Click Culture. Lloyd was able to identify with the form of motor sport we are involved with, and relate that to his business. Our sport is very much high-end, hi-tech, similar to Formula 1, using similar technology and materials, and Click Culture's business relates directly, using many hi-tech cutting edge methods in their every day business activity, thus making a perfect match. Creation races globally and Click Culture benefits directly from that in awareness and new business".

The Creation team will compete in the final race of the ALMS, the Monterey Sports Car Championships, on Saturday, Oct. 20 at the Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey, Calif. The race will be televised live on the Speed Channel at 2:30 p.m. PST, 5.30pm EST, and globally via satellite TV. The team finished second in the LMP Class and fifth overall in the prestigious Petit Le Mans 10 hour/1000 mile event at Road Atlanta in Georgia on Oct. 6.

"We are pleased to sponsor the Creation Autosportif team," said Jacobs. "The team had a great finish at the Petit Le Mans, and I am looking forward to watching Saturday's race at Laguna Seca."

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We have teamed up with the Creation Autosport Race Team. ClickCulture will develop and implement a marketing campaign, including assertive and dynamic communications counsel as well as brand-building initiatives for the racing endurance team, including the 2006 Le Mans 24 Hour race. Watch the race on SpeedTV - June 17-18!

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New on Slashdot and elsewhere about the latest McAfee's virus definitions wiping out a bunch of applications include Office, and according to the Slashdot post - ColdFusion.

I dug around a bit and found this list of affected files and indeed several Java related files are mentioned so it's possible this might trash ColdFusion. More at Sans.org.