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The 2013 European Le Mans Series grid guide

The European Le Mans Series lasted just two races in 2012, but returns this weekend at Silverstone renewed and rehabilitated. Gary Watkins guides you through the runners and riders

The European Le Mans Series returns to life at Silverstone this weekend and the prognosis looks good.

The series withered and died — or rather was put out of its misery — after two races in 2012, but with the same group that runs the World Endurance Championship taking over the reins and a revised three-hour race format and class structure, a decent grid has been assembled for the first of the five events.

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Author Gary Watkins

Gary Watkins has, for reasons best known to himself, devoted all his working life to covering sportscar racing. This season is his 33rd as a motorsport journalist, during which time he has reported on major long-distance events on four continents and approaching 80 24-hour races. He reckons a degree in political philosophy makes him well qualified for covering the sometimes Machiavellian world of international sportscars.

Gary, who also writes for Motor Sport, Autocourse, RACER and others, lives in Surbiton close to the former workshops of the Cooper Formula 1 team but spends more time on the road than at home for most of the year.