Huntsman Helps Bring Pescarolo Sport to a Strong Finish at Le Mans

Huntsman Advanced Materials has helped the leading French motor sports team, Pescarolo Sport to a strong finish in 3rd place for car number sixteen and 13th place for car number seventeen at the Le Mans 24 Hour Endurance Race, held over 16/17 June 2007.

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:

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."