For the first time in Le Mans Series history Hungary will host a round of the mostchallenging endurance championship on Sunday 22nd August. The 1000 km ofBudapest, fourth round of the 2010 Le Mans Series will be held on the sameracetrack that has hosted the Formula One Hungarian Grand Prix since 1986, theHungaroring located in Mogyoród, near Budapest.

After a second podium in the 2010 Le Mans Series at the 1000 km of Algarve lastmonth, REBELLION Racing now heads to Hungary with high expectations.REBELLION Racing is second in the teams classification, battling for the title with theleading Audi-Joest #7 and third placed Peugeot-Oreca #4, with five points coveringthese three. With only two races remaining in the 2010 Le Mans Series, REBELLIONRacing is aiming to score the maximum points possible.

The Swiss team’s main goal is to win the Championship and winning races, but theopposition of factory diesel cars are not making the task easy, even for the bestranked private team.

In Hungary, REBELLION Racing will try to get both cars onto the podium.The team was close to doing that in the Algarve, Neel Jani and Nicolas Prost finishedsecond with the #12 car, but contact in traffic for the #13 Lola whilst in third positionspoilt Andrea Belicchi’s and Jean-Christophe Boullion’s efforts, they finished fourth inLMP1.

The Hungaroring is a challenging circuit, very demanding on set-up. The low speed,tight and twisty nature of the track stresses the suspension and engine in a similarway to the recently visited Algarve circuit.The Hungarian track is quite bumpy and is comprised of 14 mainly low to mediumspeedcorners with the start-finish straight just 700m long. The drivers will need goodtraction and good torque from their engines to secure a competitive lap time.