World Endurance Championship
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It's a new year, and a new era for Corvette fans. The C8 generation has gone the mid-engine route, which means its racing variant, the C8.R, is mid-engined, too. The race car made its debut last October, but the car shown at the time wore a silver livery with splashes of yellow. That's not the color setup everyone recognizes. Now the C8.R adorned in the more traditional yellow livery has made an appearance. The number 3 car, set to be driven by Jordan Taylor and Antonio Garcia, was shown on Twitter by Taylor. The yellow-based livery is similar to the design of that found on the C7.R race car...
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Gordon Murray undecided between WEC's GTE and Le Mans Hypercar classes for T50Should the T50 go racing, it probably won't be allowed with its rear-mounted fan.
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Le Mans Hypercar (LMH) name picked for LMP1 class' replacement in WEC
The 2020/2021 World Endurance Championship will see the first running of the Le Mans Hypercar class.
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Peugeot reveals hypercar destined to race at Le Mans
Peugeot will return to Le Mans for the first time since 2012 with a new car destined for the Hypercar class of the World Endurance Championship.
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2020 Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo ready to challenge the Corvette C8.R
Over 18,000 hours were spent developing the new front fascia alone.
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The era of front-engine Corvettes in motorsport is over
Chevrolet has a new Corvette C8.R race car coming to dominate racetracks around the world in 2020, and that means it's the end of the road for the current C7.R, which enjoyed its final round of competition during this past weekend's Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta. It also means the end of the road...
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The Corvette C8.R race car has been testing in secret at night but last week Chevy rolled the car out in front of the Petit Le Mans crowd.
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Ford is done racing the GT
Ford has ended its four-year racing program for the GT supercar but there's still hope private teams will continue to field the car.
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Chevy Corvette C8.R has a flat-crank 5.5-liter V-8 we'll see in a road car
The engine in the C8.R is limited to 500 horsepower but more will almost certainly be extracted for future production versions.
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2020 Chevrolet Corvette C8.R race car ready to roar
The Corvette C8.R race car has been testing in secret at night at major racetracks but now Chevy has revealed the car in full.
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Gordon Murray could return to Le Mans with the T50, his McLaren F1 successor
Gordon Murray, father of the McLaren F1, is in talks to return to Le Mans with his company's T50 hypercar.
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You won't see the Mercedes-AMG One take on the Aston Martin Valkyrie at Le Mans
AMG boss Tobias Moers says regulations that level the playing field at Le Mans may keep the automaker from competing in a new class.
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A Hypercar class entry would see Lamborghini up against Aston Martin, Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus, Toyota, and potentially more manufacturers.
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2019 Porsche 911 RSR ready to race
Porsche has just launched a new generation of its 911, the 992 series, but as far as the motorsport department is concerned, the outgoing 991 series still has plenty of life left in it. As a result, Porsche's latest 911 RSR race car, which was unveiled on Saturday at the 2019 Goodwood Festival of...
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SCG's 007 Hypercar racer will be a mashup of 003 and 004
The carmaker gives us some clues about its upcoming Hypercar racer in the World Endurance Championship.
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Adrian Newey tapped to design Aston Martin Valkyrie racer
The Aston Martin Valkyrie race car will actually be slower and less powerful than the road car.
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Koenigsegg still wants to race at Le Mans and Hypercar class is the ticket
Swedish supercar builder Koenigsegg is still interested in the World Endurance Championship's new Hypercar class now that the rules have been finalized.
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Akio Toyoda tests Toyota's race car designed for WEC's new Hypercar class
Prototypes for the 2020/2021 Toyota World Endurance Championship Hypercar class race car are already hitting the track.
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Fernando Alonso was in the lead car, meaning he now has two Le Mans titles under his belt.
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Toyota commits to World Endurance Championship's new hypercar class
Toyota on Friday announced its intention to race in the World Endurance Championship's new hypercar class that is set to begin the fall of 2020.
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Aston Martin Valkyrie to chase outright victory at Le Mans in 2021
Aston Martin will race the Valkyrie in the new hypercar class of the World Endurance Championship.
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BMW to bid farewell to WEC motorsport series
BMW participated in the high-dollar race series for just a year before pulling the plug.
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Have a closer look at the Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo
Porsche's "Top 5" series returns but this time it's all about one car: the 919 Hybrid Evo. The race car adopted from the Le Mans-winning 919 Hybrid went on a global parade to claim lap records before both cars were escorted to their final homes inside the Porsche Museum in Zuffenhausen, Germany...
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New McLaren F1 boss previously ran Porsche LMP1 program
It's no secret that McLaren's once great Formula 1 team has been struggling in recent years, with the team having failed to secure a single win since as far back as 2012. The good news is that McLaren has no intention of leaving F1. In fact, the team has a recovery plan, and the latest move is the...
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