Welcome to the Weekend Sports Cars on the Marshall Proop podcast, brought you by Cooper Tires,

the Justice Brothers, Toronto Motorsports.com. My cat Rocky, who is currently licking himself in

places that we are not going to describe on the show, and someone who I really truly hope is

not also licking himself in a variety of places.

The editor of Daily Sportscar.com, Graham Goodwin.

Definitely not looking for myself. Good evening. Good morning. Good afternoon. Anybody

everywhere in the world in the moment's listening here from a chilly south of England.

And it's in the darkness of Friday night at the moment.

But lots going on, MP.

Just a quick kind of catch-up before we get into the meat and two veg.

And that's not another licking reference of the weekend sports cars.

Some significant news this week.

Another LMDAH factory announcement.

We talked about this early in the year when we expected something to come around

Lamont.

Happily, we've not had to wait as long as some had indicated we might.

Alpine, Renault's sporting brand, be coming to LMDH for 2024 with a two-car effort,

with the Cycletech outfit, Orica, will provide the chassis for that effort.

It will be an all-new engine, in-house developed engine,

with Aero developed by the, well, with the systems from the Alpine F1 efforts based in

the U.K.

And yes, yet another factory effort coming to sports car racing and in this case specifically the FIWC.

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