500 hp carbon fiber Dome

Design of Dome LMP cars by Oku Akiyoshi.

T2M Motorsports testing their Dome S101.5 with a 3.4 liter Mader V-8 in Alès, France. The S101.5 shown here is Dome's first LMP2 car built.

http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/car/3228/Dome-S101.5-Mader.html

The team has Michelin tires.

http://www.michelinsport.com/sport/home/en/home.jsp?lang=EN

They see the LMP2 class as one for privateers, as the ACO intends it to be.

http://www.dome.co.jp/e/index.html

T2M Motorsport's CEO, Ietoshi Kaneko, says in the link that T2M Motorsport is now Kaneko Racing. Dome now has their LMP machine and they hope to race with a Murciélago R-GT in summer 2008.

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http://www.endurance-info.com/article.php?sid=4898

News: Dome is working on a new closed cockpit LMP1 chassis for 2008, the new S102 which will have a Judd GV5.5 S2 (V-10). It has 9 % less drag than the S101.5 and 18 % more downforce. It is the first new LMP machine from Dome since 2001.

Drivers for the 2008 24 Hours of Le Mans:

Daisuke Ito (2007 Super GT Champion, Tatsuya Kataoka, and Yuji Tachikawa (2001 Super GT Champion)

http://www.daisuke-ito.com/

http://www.engdev.com/

Updated pictures and information

http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/car/3506/Dome-S102-Judd.html

Testing in May, 2008 at Spa Francorchamps:

http://www.planetlemans.com/2008/05/23/dome-s102-officially-launched-yesterday-in-belgium/

Racing for Holland's unique suspension at Le Mans, 2005 in their Dunlop-shod S101 Judd:

(They abandoned springs and dampers altogether on its Dome-Judd in favour of an all-new hydro pneumatic system)

http://www.racecar-engineering.com/articles/technology/176686/spring-is-over-creuat-suspension.html

Dome has used AP calipers and Hitco discs for stopping power.

http://www.hitco.com/products/friction/racing/index.html

http://www.apracing.com/

JB Sport helping Dome for Le Mans

http://www.jbmotorsport.com/news.html

from EI