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In this footage of Tommy Milner testing the Corvette Racing C6.R at Mid-Ohio ahead of the last round of the American Le Mans Series, we get an unusual and very cool chance to see the track from the driver's perspective. Unlike your typical on-board shot, the helmet-mounted camera here better conveys the g-forces, bumps, and raw speed of a serious run at a race track. It doesn't hurt that there's no soundtrack but the Corvette's beefy V-8. [Tommy Milner via Corvette Blogger]
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Corvette Racing Shows Its Pit Lane Performance: VideoSee first-hand what it's like when the Corvette Racing American Le Mans Series team orchestrates a pit stop.
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Corvette Racing Seeks Mosport Comeback From Tough Lime Rock Race: ALMS
The Corvette Racing team saw victory at Le Mans, but is finding the 2011 ALMS season a bit more challenging.
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Corvette Racing Offers Behind-The-Scenes Look At Race Logistics: Video
The Corvette Racing Team shows us what it takes to win a race like Le Mans. Hint: it's all about teamwork.
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Electric, Natural Gas Race Cars To Join ALMS?
Compressed natural gas and electric race cars could have a very real future in American Le Mans Series racing, and sooner than you might think.
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Joey Hand Takes Us On A Lap Of Lime Rock In ALMS BMW M3 GT: Video
It's not every day that a pro takes you for a lap, shows you the line, and offers his personal notes on braking and gear selection. Today is one of those days.
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Corvette Racing's excellent ongoing series, Track To Street, now in its second season, has given us a look inside the mind and spirit of a professional racing team the way few others get to see. This time, we see what it's like to tackle one of the world's premiere street circuits at Long Beach. Narrow, lined with concrete, and punishing mistakes with broken cars or worse, high-speed and vicious in its bends, the street circuit is a test of any car and driver and the team that supports them. Starting in last doesn't help things, but that's what one of Corvette Racing's drivers did, with the...
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Video: Corvette Racing Dives Into The 12 Hours Of Sebring
We may not have liked the flavor of Corvette's latest commercial touting its production-car superiority in relation to its American Le Mans Series racing rivals, but that's no reason to hold it against the excellent Corvette Racing team. This video takes inside their run at one of the greatest...
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Nissan's GT Academy Gamer/Driver To Hit Sebring In New Nissan LMP2 Racer
The winner of the first Nissan/Playstation GT Academy video game driving contest, Lucas Ordonez, has proven he can do what he does in the game world in the real world. Earlier this month, we brought you news that he'd be driving at Le Mans--and now he's going to get a shot at Sebring, as well. This...
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Highcroft Racing Honda HPD ARX-01e ALMS Race Car
Highcroft Racing and Honda Performance Development (HPD) are testing a brand new race car, the ARX-01e prototype, for American Le Mans Series racing at Sebring this week. The car is still being developed through the aerodynamic and systems testing process, but is looking strong in early testing. At...
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Video: Falken Tire Porsche 911 GT3 RSR At ALMS Sebring Winter Test
Endurance racing is a grueling, often frustrating experience, but the rewards--when you get it right--are equally significant. Team Falken Tire gives us a look into what they're working on improving for the 2011 American Le Mans Series season with this video from the Sebring winter test session...
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Video: Season Two Of Corvette Racing's Track To Street, Episode 1
It's time to gear up for another season of racing. We know we are, and now Corvette Racing is, too, with the first episode in this season's Track To Street series. The big change for this year? Paddle shifters. Now legal in GT2, the paddle-shift setup requires a lot of setup work to handle the...
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Though BMW's performance in winning this year's ALMS GT championship was based more on consistency than outright dominance, the team has proved a central tenet of endurance racing: to finish first, one must first finish. Today the team announced its intent to come back for a third season of ALMS GT racing, bringing with it a new name: BMW Team RLR. Previously called the BMW Rahal Letterman Racing Team, the team is building a new pair of M3-based race cars, and picks up Dirk Werner to replace Tommy Milner. Werner will drive alongside Bill Auberlen, Dirk Mueller, and Joey Hand. As for the name...
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Video: Corvette Racing Episode 12, Petit Victory
The BMW/Rahal Letterman Racing team may have taken the overall American Le Mans Series driver's and team championships this year, but Corvette Racing continues to learn--and to win where it can. Petit Le Mans, the 10-hour or 1,000-mile season closer held each year at Road Atlanta, turned out to be...
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Video: Picking Up The Pieces From BMW's Road America Crash
Racing, from grassroots to the highest pro leagues, involves a lot more work than play. It's just that most of the work is never shown to the fans. BMW has turned the tables around, and is showing us what's going into the rebuild process of the wrecked No. 92 M3 GT that hit the wall in the Kink at...
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ALMS Driver Patrick Long 'Charged Up' To Race The 911 GT3 R Hybrid
The Porsche 911 GT3 R Hybrid will be piloted at the Petit Le Mans by Patrick Long and Jorg Bergmeister.
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Gallery: ALMS Thursday Testing At Laguna Seca
Our man on the scene, Joe Nuxoll, has fresh photos and a short video clip live from Thursday ALMS testing at Laguna Seca.
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VizualTech Design Drops ALMS-Style Chevrolet Camaro
The latest design departure for the crew at VizualTech is an American Le Mans Series (ALMS)-style car.
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