David Tunnicliffe
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FIA WEC gears up for Le Mans showdown
The second week of June is almost always synonymous with one particular event, especially among motorsport fans: the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Saturday marks the 85th running of the famous race, with the first race held back in 1923. Over a quarter of a million people will make their way to the Sarthe region in…
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Toyota 1-2-3 at Le Mans Test Day
Toyota Gazoo Racing recorded the fastest three times of the official Le Mans Test Day in preparation for the 24 Hours of Le Mans in two weeks’ time. In LMP2, Nelson Panciatici topped the time sheets for Signatech Alpine Matmut, as the Oreca 07’s dominated the test filling the first 13 places in the standings.…
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Toyota secure one-two at Spa
The #8 Toyota Gazoo Racing TS050 Hybrid of Sébastien Buemi, Anthony Davidson and Kazuki Nakajima won the Six Hours of Spa-Francorchamps after an impressive showing at the second round of the 2017 FIA World Endurance Championship. After engaging in a race-long battle with the #2 Porsche 919 Hybrid of Brendon Hartley, Earl Bamber and Timo…
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Porsche take Spa pole, Ferrari head up GTE Pro
The #1 Porsche 919 Hybrid of André Lotterer, Neel Jani and Nick Tandy will start tomorrow’s Six Hours of Spa-Francorchamps from pole position after an incident-filled qualifying session at the Belgian track. LMP2 pole went to the #26 G-Drive Racing Oreca, with Ferrari and Porsche fastest in GTE Pro and GTE Am respectively. The session…
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Toyota fastest at Spa
The #7 Toyota Gazoo Racing TS050 topped the time sheets in both of the first two free practice sessions for Saturday’s 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps. Mike Conway was the fastest man in FP1, while Kamui Kobyashi posted the fastest lap in the second 90-minute session. Toyota travelled to Belgium with both its high- and low-downforce…
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The best social media from Silverstone
The opening race of the 2017 FIA World Endurance Championship offered a mouth-watering taste of what is set to be an exciting season. Fans flocked to the Silverstone circuit in the UK to watch their favourite teams and drivers. Elsewhere, fans resorted to social media to follow their heroes and gain an insight behind the…
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Toyota and Porsche go toe-to-toe at Silverstone
The Porsche team will likely have left Silverstone with a smile on their face, having travelled to the UK with the low-downforce, Le Mans-spec bodywork and performing well at a track not entirely suited to a low-drag set-up. “We are even happier about today’s second and third place with such a marginal gap to the…
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Toyota take the honours in FP1
Toyota Gazoo Racing recorded the fastest time in the first free practice session of the season, with Sébastien Buemi’s early best of 1:40.104 proving unassailable over the remainder of the 90 minutes. Second quickest was Brendon Hartley for Porsche, 0.7 seconds further back. Mike Conway was third in the #7 Toyota TS050 with a 1:40.960.…
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2017 Season Preview: LMP2
It’s all change in LMP2 for 2017, with the introduction of four standard chassis made by Dallara, Onroak, Oreca or Riley/Multimac and a spec Gibson V8 engine. The four-chassis variety has, though, failed to reach the FIA WEC for this year at least, with all teams opting for the Oreca 07, which won the LMP2…