With 2006 now in full swing we thought we would bring you upto date with current progress on the Hybrid programme. The car is nearing completion and a test schedule is planned. We will firstly visit Donington Park for a shakedown early in March before heading off to Magny Cours and Paul Ricard circuits in France for several days developing the car.

So far we are extremely happy with the way the car and many of its composite parts are taking shape. Recently (see other news story) we carried out the new Judd engine fitment and that was a success.

There's still plenty to achieve before that first test day but the team are very optimistic.

View CAD Renders here
 

The well known Creation Lister Storm GT1 will enter a full season in the French GT series.

Creation had their first taste of the series late last year we entered the final race of the season in Magny Cours.

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Yep its true, for about thirty quid (~45USD) you can get yourself a 1/43 scale model of the Blue Rocket, this topic has been discussed in our forum but we thought we'd mention it here too for all of our fans.

The model is manufactured by 'Spark' and is based up on the 2005 Le-Mans car. The item number is S0038, do a goggle search and get yours now by clicking here.
 

FORUM
SOFTWARE
& DATABASE
UPDATE
 

It appears that the Creation message forum had developed a software problem which stopped new users registering successfully with the Creation Message board.

We've updated the forum software and our SQL database, and the problem has now been resolved, however those users who tried to register and received a blank email and still cant logon should view this.
 

Creation are moving at a pace on the Hybrid conversion which is now officially called the CA06-H-001. The Judd V10 installation is complete with the car now on the surface plate at KS Composites having the floors and new bodywork fitted.

Stable Fabrications are manufacturing the new suspension and first test for the car will be on the "shaker" rig in February. After that, 4 days testing in Europe and off to Sebring.

Ian Bickerton said:

" we originally thought the Hybrid would look very similar to the original Reynard car. The more and more i see what the designers have schemed out and produced, the more i know its going to look very different. The Judd engine was no big design problem to fit. The new bell housing/oil tank looks the business. A bit heavier but a lot stiffer. We can afford to put the weight on anyway. KWM have just released the CAD for the new rear wing and tail which is the final piece to be drawn. I must be getting old. I have not seen a single drawing yet! Its all computers, not a single piece of paper. Looks like the days of the "fag packet" sketched race car is over! "

View pictures of V10 Installation here.
 

The Bicester-based Creation team would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year and wish thank everyone involved with the team in 2005 for their hard work.

2006 is going to be an interesting and challenging year for the team and we'll be bringing you news of the developments over the coming months. We'll also be implementing a new look to the web site  over the next few months to reflect the teams focus on the LMP car - stay tuned.
 

The Bicester-based Creation team will be the stars of a documentary series to be shown on the Discovery Channel. Titled "Engineering Le Mans", the shows will focus on the development and engineering of the team's DBA-Judd sports prototype racing car in preparation for and progress through the most famous sportscar race in the world, the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

View the full press release & air times here
 

Hot on the heals of the final LMES race at Istanbul and the teams hard earned 3rd place finish, we've just received some pictures of the team and car in action courtesy of the teams resident photographer John Brooks.

View the pictures here
 

Creation Autosportif led today's fifth and final round of the Le Mans Endurance Series for the first third of the race, but the victory the team has been chasing all season remained elusive. Nicolas Minassian, Jamie Campbell-Walter and Jean-Denis Deletraz finished in 3rd place today, and the team took 4th place in the LMP1 Teams Championship.

Read the full Race Report here
 

The electric blue, Judd-engined DBA4-03S run by Creation Autosportif will start tomorrow's fifth and final round of the Le Mans Endurance Series in Istanbul, Turkey in 3rd position on the grid.

Read the full Press Release here
 

Creation will be entering the fifth and final round of the Le Mans Endurance Series with an addition to its driver line up as the highly experienced Swiss Jean-Denis Deletraz joins the team for Istanbul.

Deletraz, 42, who this year has been driving a Ferrari 575 in the FIA GT Championship, recently tested Creation's DBA-04S Judd at Donington and proved himself just as competitive as both Nicolas Minassian and Jamie Campbell-Walter. Team Principal, Ian Bickerton, is therefore very upbeat about the team's chances in Turkey.

Read the full Press Release here
 

The Creation Autosportif team made an early start to its winter testing programme yesterday at a damp and misty Donington.

Starting things off in a low-key, minimal fuss kind of way was the fulfilment of a long term promise to an old racing friend, Jean-Denis Deletraz.

The highly experienced Swiss GT driver got his first laps in the Judd engined DBA-04S once Creation regular Nicolas Minassian had completed a number of installation laps.

Read the full Press Release here
 

News is a little bit thin at the moment, however we can tell you that the team are busy preping the Blue Rocket for the last LMES Event which will take place at the new Istanbul Grand Prix Circuit in Turkey on the 12th & 13th of November, with its now infamous turn 8 it promises to be an exciting and challenging event.

The team are also busy developing the concepts for the DBA Hybrid Project, obviously a lot of the work is Top Secret at the moment but we'll do our best to get an interview with Bicks and bring you a few snippets of information as and when we can.

Finally we'd like to thank Yvonne Hardung for sending us some snaps of the car in action at the last event at the Nurburgring, check them out here.
 

Now that the team is back from Germany, and time (plus a few beers) has dulled the pain of losing the race, Team Principal Ian “Bicks” Bickerton has had a chance to reflect on what happened to Creation at the Nurburgring.

“Basically, we made a bit of a hash of it. Creation always gives Nic and JC-W a good race car, even if the pole position is not always achievable.

Read the full Story here

We've also received a huge number of pictures from the weekend which have been added to the gallery and can be viewed here
 

Three news updates in one, Last weekend the Team and the Blue Rocket headed off to Nurburgring in Germany for the latest round of the LMES.

Press Release 1. Team notes
Press Release 2. Qualifying
Press Release 3. The Race

We should have some images soon....
 

Apologies for the delay in posting these images but the web master has been on holiday for a week.....As promised we've got some great images of the team, and its blue rocket in action at the LMES Silverstone event, as a bonus there are also a few pictures of the JS3 Ligier in the support race.

View the images here
 

In a nail-bitingly tense and thrilling 6-hour marathon, Creation Autosportif today led a packed field for over 5 hours of the race but were ultimately pipped to the chequered flag by the Audi R8 of Allan McNish and Stephane Ortelli. The gap between the two cars was just 6.5 seconds.

Read the full Race Report here
Pictures coming soon . . . .
 

Nicolas Minassian eclipsed the competition in qualifying today for the 1000 kms of Silverstone with a lap time that was almost two seconds quicker than his nearest rival.
His time of 1m 34.562 was his third flying lap in a row and any one of the three would have comprehensively claimed pole position.

Read the full Qualifying Report here
 

There were four hours of practice here at Silverstone today, one of which was held at night as the 1000 Km race starts at 4pm and is due to run into the hours of darkness.

Creation had a good day, topping the time sheets in two sessions and finishing a close second in the others. Ian Bickerton was uncharacteristically short of words - but for all the right reasons. "It was a fantastic day, it couldn't have gone better. Don't know what else to say really - everything went so well! Let's hope it's the same in qualifying and the race."

A 20 minute qualifying session Saturday morning will be followed by the race
- 1000 kilometres or 6 hours, depending on which is completed first.

More to follow as it happens...
 

During In the build-up to this weekends LMES race at Silverstone, we managed to get the team to take a break for a few minuets and to talk about what will be their 'home' race, we also got to talk to Nic on his recent GT experience and say hello to latest addition the JCW family.

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