World Endurance Championship
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Recently, Porsche confirmed it would enter the 24 Hours of Le Mans as early as next year, competing in the GTE class with a new 911 RSR race car ahead of a previously confirmed assault in the top LMP1 class in 2014. Now, Porsche has announced that its LMP1 entry will be fielded by a factory team based out of its research center in Weissach, Germany. The announcement was made at Porsche’s Night of Champions celebrations in Weissach, where the automaker also revealed its new 911 GT3 Cup race car based on the seventh generation of the iconic 911 sports car. As for its LMP1 development...
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Porsche To Tackle Le Mans In 2013 With 991-Based 911 RSRA Porsche factory team will compete in the 24 Hours of Le Mans a year earlier than previously thought, though instead of tackling the top LMP1 class the team will initially contend in the GTE class, currently dominated by Ferrari and its Italia sports car. Porsche confirmed over the weekend that...
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James Glickenhaus' P4/5 Competizione to enter Le Mans in 2014?
In 2006 film producer and longtime Ferrari fan James Glickenhaus unveiled a custom supercar based on a Ferrari Enzo. Inspired by the legendary P series Ferrari race cars of the 1960s, and built by Italian design house Pininfarina, the car was called the Ferrari P4/5 and remains to this day the only...
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Toyota TS030 Hybrid Wins First Race
Toyota has won its first race with its new TS030 Hybrid Le Mans prototype, having led from start to finish in the Six Hours of Sao Paulo at Brazil’s famous Interlagos race track over the weekend. The Brazilian race was the fifth round of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC), with the...
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GreenGT to run hydrogen fuel cell car at Le Mans in 2013
When the cars take to the Circuit de la Sarthe for the 2013 running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the vehicle occupying the 56th pit box will be like no other in the history of endurance racing. Powered by a hydrogen fuel cell, the electric-motor-driven GreenGT H2 will be capable of reaching speeds...
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Davidson’s Toyota Flips In The Air During Le Mans Crash: Video
The number 8 Toyota TS030 LMP1 being driven by Britain’s Anthony Davidson suffered a major a crash just before the five-hour mark of the 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race taking place this weekend. As the video shows, the Toyota hybrid came into contact with a Ferrari 458 Italia competing in...
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After making its competitive debut at the World Endurance Championship season-opener in Sebring, Florida, the Aston Martin Vantage GTE will make its first European appearance at the upcoming Six Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, scheduled for Saturday, May 5. In its first two North American outings (Sebring, followed by the American Le Mans Series opener in Long Beach, California), the Vantage GTE scored a third place finish in Sebring and a fifth place finish in Long Beach. The fifth place finish in California is particularly impressive, given that the car started the race from the back of the GTE...
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Toyota Announces Driver Lineup For 2012 Le Mans Comeback
Toyota is showing just how serious it is about its 2012 endurance racing comeback by announcing today its driver lineup for the newly established World Endurance Championship. Driving the automaker’s new hybrid LMP1 prototype race car will be Alex Wurz, Nicolas Lapierre and Kazuki Nakajima...
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GreenGT LMPH2 hydrogen racer to run 2012 Le Mans
It turns out the Delta Wing concept won't be the only experimental car to run the 2012 24 Hours of Le Mans. The hyrdrogen fuel cell electrc GreenGT LMPH2 prototype racer will also join the grid next year. So what is the LMPH2? As the name suggests, it's a hydrogen-powered Le Mans Prototype sports...
Nelson Ireson
