Nurburgring 24 Hours Race
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VW unveiled a new Golf GTI Clubsport as part of the celebrations for this year's 50th anniversary of the Golf nameplate.
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New VW GTI Clubsport coming to celebrate Golf's 50th anniversaryThe new hot hatch will make its debut during the 2024 24 Hours of Nürburgring endurance race.
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New Mini John Cooper Works launches this fallMini's new hot hatch arrives with gas power but an electric version is also in the works.
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Mini set for 24 Hours of Nürburgring return after a decadeA pint-size Mini John Cooper Works Hardtop race car will take on the big boys in this year's 24 Hours of Nürburgring.
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Lexus won't race new twin-turbo V-8 in 2020 24 Hours of NürburgringCoronavirus disruptions mean Lexus won't participate in this year's 24 Hours of Nürburgring.
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Documentary details how Porsche tackled back-to-back 24-hour racesThe 24 Hours of Le Mans and 24 Hours of Nürburgring are two of the most demanding car races in the world, both physically and mentally. Normally the races are held weeks apart to ensure drivers competing in both have adequate time to recover. That didn't happen last year however as the races...
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The new V-8 is expected to debut in the long-rumored LC F.
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2019 Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupe gets Edition 1 treatmentMercedes-AMG's new super sedan, the GT 4-Door Coupe, is ready for its market launch and to mark the occasion the Affalterbach tuner has revealed a special launch edition. Dubbed the Edition 1, the car is based on the GT 4-Door Coupe's range-topping 63 S model and features exclusive interior and...
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Lexus LC race car ready to take on 24 Hours of NürburgringToyota Gazoo Racing will field a Lexus LC race car at the 24 Hours of Nürburgring, the brand announced on Friday. The LC racer will participate in the 46th running of the grueling 24-hour-long race. Gazoo Racing made multiple modifications to the Lexus LC for its race debut. The division also...
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Hyundai i30 N survives 24 Hours Nürburgring raceMotorsport provides a fun, challenging and highly-visible avenue for car development, and it’s a well-worn path Hyundai has taken for the first model from its recently-established N division. That first model is the i30 N, a high-performance version of the Golf-rivaling i30 hatchback. Sadly...
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2017 Mercedes-AMG GT3 Edition 50 debuts, limited to 5 carsThis year is Mercedes-AMG’s 50th, and the official tuner to Mercedes-Benz is celebrating the anniversary in a big way. The climax of the celebrations will be the unveiling of a new hypercar at September’s 2017 Frankfurt auto show. Along the way, though, AMG is unveiling some special...
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Mercedes-AMG reveals Project One hypercar’s F1-spec powertrainAs we approach the debut of Mercedes-AMG’s “Project One” at September’s 2017 Frankfurt auto show, more and more details on the hybrid hypercar are surfacing. AMG used this weekend’s 24 Hours Nürburgring to provide a sneak peek at the car’s layout and...
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BMW M used this weekend’s M Festival held at the Nürburgring to confirm an M8 performance flagship will form part of the new 8-Series range currently in the works. The first member of the new range will be a regular 8-Series coupe. It debuts in 2018 and was previewed on Friday at the 2017 Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este in Italy by an 8-Series concept. The M8 is expected to arrive shortly after the regular 8-Series. At the M Festival, the M division rolled out an actual prototype for the M8. It featured all the signature M cues such as larger air intakes, modified brakes and a...
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2018 BMW M4 GT4 ready to raceBMW’s new GT4-spec customer race car based on the M4 coupe is finally ready. BMW motorsport boss Jens Marquardt, together with racing driving Dirk Adorf, who was heavily involved in the testing phase, launched the new race car on Wednesday at the Nürburgring. At the event, BMW confirmed...
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Virtually production-ready Hyundai i30 N will race in 2017 Nürburgring 24 HoursMotorsport provides a fun, challenging and highly-visible avenue for car development, and it’s a well-worn path Hyundai will undertake for the first model from its recently-established N division for high-performance cars. Hyundai’s Golf-rivaling i30 hatchback, to be sold here as the...
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First Hyundai N performance car to be based on next-gen i30 (Elantra GT)Hyundai is looking to compete on the world stage in the area of performance cars and recently launched its N sub-brand to focus on just that. Heading up Hyundai N is none other than former BMW M engineering boss Albert Biermann. He and his team plan to use knowledge gained in motorsport, which for...
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Hyundai i30 N development car to tackle 2016 Nürburgring 24 HoursHyundai has been testing a version of its current i30 hatchback (an Elantra GT in the United States) at the Nürburgring for the past year. Initially thought to be a prototype for a model from the Hyundai N performance division based on the the current i30, the car is now thought to be a test...
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Audi unveils Nürburgring 24 Hours-inspired R8Audi is rightfully proud of its R8 LMS race car's competition history that includes 323 wins internationally since arriving in 2009, and to celebrate it has taken the wraps off of a new special edition version of the road-going R8. Just 24 examples of the R8 V10 Plus Selection 24h will be...
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We recently brought you a time-lapse video of Prodrive building an Aston Martin Vantage GTE race car for the World Endurance Championship in under 60 seconds. Now we have a similar time-lapse video showing fellow British motorsports and engineering squad JRM building a Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 in less than 3 minutes. GT-R Nismo GT3s compete in various competitions around the globe. And Nissan has just confirmed it will field a pair of the cars in the premier event of Germany's VLN series, the Nürburgring 24 Hours, which this year runs the weekend starting May 28 and will also see Aston...
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Watch Prodrive build an Aston Martin Vantage GTE racer in 60 secondsWhen it comes to racing, Aston Martin’s weapon of choice is the compact and lightweight Vantage sports car. However, the Vantage that takes to some of the world’s top racing tracks in events like the World Endurance Championship and United Sportscar Championship is very different to the...
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Toyota to race C-HR SUV in 24 Hours NürburgringToyota is about to take a radical step by entering a crossover in one of the world’s toughest races, the Nürburgring 24 Hours. That's right. Toyota and its motorsport partner Gazoo Racing will enter a modified version of the C-HR subcompact crossover concept. This will be the 10th year...
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Driving The Aston Martin English Rose: VideoAston Martin is eager to prove that it's road cars are reliable machines. One way to do that is to simply put a Honda or Toyota badge on the front. That won't work here though. The other way to prove reliability is by taking your toys and going racing with them. In 2006, that's exactly what Aston...
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2017 Audi R8 Shares More Than You'd Think With 'Ring-Winning R8 LMS Race CarWe’ve all heard it before: X race car is totally based on the production car—no, really it is—and that means you should, like, completely buy the road car because, therefore, it’s awesome. Except that that’s rarely the actual case. With the 2017 Audi R8, it’s...
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Audi Sport Team WRT Drives New R8 To 2015 Nürburgring 24 Hours VictoryTwo months after its debut at the 2015 Geneva Motor Show, Audi’s new R8 supercar in its LMS race car trim is already a top-level endurance race winner, having just taken victory at one of the toughest races in the world: the Nürburgring 24 Hours, the highlight of the VLN series...
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