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Rene Rast: “The car felt very good yesterday in the dry”
Rene Rast set pole position in LMP2 alongside Roman Rusinov for G-Drive Racing today for tomorrow’s FIA WEC season opener at Silverstone. Rast confirmed that despite the qualifying session taking place in the wet, the #26 Ligier was being run on the dry set up the team had worked on over the free practice sessions…
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Audi take pole at Silverstone
The first qualifying session for the 2016 FIA World Endurance Championship ended with the LMP1 pole going the way of the #7 Audi. G-Drive Racing will start tomorrow’s race from pole in LMP2, while the #71 Ferrari will lead away the GTE-PRO class, and the #88 Porsche the GTE-AM field. In LMP1, there was nothing…
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Silverstone Snow Shortens FP3
Free practice three got underway for the FIA World Endurance Championship in very wet conditions. With sleet and rain adding to the already wet circuit, conditions were far from ideal. Anthony Davidson wasted no time getting out onto the circuit but struggled for grip. After running off the road at Luffield, the British driver then…
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FP2 another story of Porsche domination
The second free practice session at this weekend’s 6 Hours of Silverstone was another story of Porsche domination, with the defending champions Mark Webber and Brendon Hartley setting the fastest times of the session in the #1 Porsche 919 Hybrid. New Zealander Brendon Hartley was the fastest man of the weekend so far in the #1…
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Porsche lead the way in FP1
Porsche Team look to be continuing their 2015 form with a dominating performance in Friday’s First Practice session. The German marque took the top two spots on the timesheets, with Timo Bernhard recording the quickest time of 1:42.182. Elsewhere, G-Drive Racing topped the LMP2 times, while the AF Corse Ferraris were the cream of the…
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6 Hours of Silverstone 2016: Resources Page
Circuit Name: Silverstone Circuit Opened: 1947 Country: Great Britain Venue: Permanent Race Track Length: 5.109km Corners: 18 Timetable Date Session Time (local) Time (CEST) Friday 15th April Free Practice 1 12:15 – 13:45 13:15 – 14:45 Friday 15th April Free Practice 2 16:30 – 18:00 17:30 – 19:00 Saturday 16th April Free Practice 3 9:00 –…
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6 Hours of Silverstone: LMP Preview
The 6 Hours of Silverstone this weekend marks the on-track competitive debuts for many of the LMP1 and LMP2 competitors. Last year’s curtain-raiser saw astonishing on-track battles between the LMP1 competitors and set the tone for the remainder of the season. Have the works teams made similar progress for 2016? It’s all change in LMP2,…
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6 Hours of Silverstone: GTE Preview
The 2016 World Endurance Championship kicks off this weekend with the Six Hours of Silverstone, the traditional curtain-raiser for the international sportscar championship. WEC-Magazin takes a look at the runners and riders in the two GTE classes. GTE Pro With all eyes on June’s 24 Hours of Le Mans, the first two races of the…
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James Rossiter in at ByKolles for Silverstone and Spa
Briton James Rossiter will return to LMP1 for the ByKolles team for the first two races of the season at Silverstone and Spa-Francorchaps. Rossiter, who usually drives in the Super Formula championship will replace regular ByKolles driver Pierre Kaffer and share the car with Simon Trummer and Oliver James Webb. ByKolles Racing Director of Operations,…
