Acura LMP2 race car to compete at Le Mans next season

The British Strakka Racing team has made a deal to purchase an LMP2-class Acura ARX-01b prototype from Fernández Racing and will campaign it in 2010. Strakka, which ran in LMP1 with a Ginetta-Zytek in 2009, will run the car at the 24 Hours of Le Mans and in the Le Mans Series in Europe. The Fernández team, which won the 2009 LMP2 championship in the American Le Mans Series, looks certain to close its doors after team boss Adrian Fernández stated that his organization has no hope of finding a deal to keep it going–at least not before a self-imposed Nov. 1 deadline. AutoWeek