Karim Ojjeh, Claude-Yves Gosselin and Adam Sharpe, the winning 2005 trio and firm friends, intend to renew their performance this year.

Adam Sharpe, sponsored by CARDSTREAM, has completed this strong and enthusiastic line-up as the Trading Performance team sets its sights on an LMP2 win. The M Zytek 075 package is proven in its class and, combined with Michelin tyres, all the ingredients are in place for success.

This trio has already chalked up an impressive second at Le Mans and intends to be on the top step of the podium in 2008. According to all three drivers, Trading Performance runs a first class operation and will mount a highly professional Le Mans campaign.

dailysportscar.com reports:

Sharpe Recreates The 2005 LMP2 Line-Up
In The Trading Performance Zytek

Adam Sharpe, Karim Ojjeh and Claude-Yves Gosselin were looking likely winners of the LMP2 Class at Le Mans in 2005, in a Belmondo Courage – until late-race dramas dropped them out of the lead, pipped by the RML entry, which took its first 24 Hours win.
But Sharpe, Ojjeh and Gosselin will be trying to grab the class win together again in June, because they’re the trio who will be racing the Trading Performance Zytek at Le Mans.

Adam Sharpe was at Paul Ricard on Monday, and popped into the media centre to pass on the news. Unfortunately, the blue Zytek wasn’t running at the time, Karim Ojjeh having gone off and damaged it very early into proceedings on Sunday.

“Le Mans is the pinnacle of sportscar racing, and the Zytek proved itself last year, with pole at Le Mans, LNT’s performance at Silverstone and then at Petit Le Mans and Laguna Seca,” commented Sharpe. Those were all by the Karim Ojjeh chassis of course, while the Barazi-Epsilon Zytek was also a very significant entry (and race winner) in the Le Mans Series - and at Le Mans.

“The Le Mans Series is a good lead-up to the 24 Hours, but it’s not the ultimate thing,” continues Adam Sharpe, who, like everyone else, is very keen to add a class victory in France to his CV.
He’s spent the last two seasons racing in the Fujitsu V8 series in Australia, which has “given me a good edge to my racing, which should be very useful in sportscars. I couldn’t find the right programme in the Le Mans Series this year, but I’ll be racing the Falcon in Dutch Supercars.”

Meanwhile, the Trading Performance team will be testing at Magny-Cours this month, ahead of the opening event of the Le Mans Series. Adam Sharpe’s last LMP2 drive was in a Belmondo Courage at Silverstone in 2005. The LMP2 class has come a long way since then, but with a drive in a Zytek, he’s in with as good a chance of a class victory at Le Mans as anyone – depending on how those new Porsches perform in their first 24 hour race.