LMP2
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Free Practice underway at Fuji
After a break of around two months, the FIA WEC is finally back in action at the next round of the season: the 6 Hours of Fuji in Japan. Toyota Gazoo Racing go into their home race as the favourites in LMP1 and were looking to perfect their race strategy in the free practice sessions.…
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Le Mans: LMP2 winner G-Drive Racing disqualified
The #26 G-Drive Racing Oreca 07 of Roman Rusinov, Andrea Pizzitola and Jean-Eric-Vergne has been stripped of its Le Mans victory in the LMP2 class due to a fuel-related infraction. In addition, the fellow TDS Racing-run #28 Oreca 07 of Francois Perrodo, Matthieu Vaxiviere and Loic Duval has also been excluded from the classification for…
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Toyota breaks duck at Le Mans
One of motorsport’s most famous streaks has finally come to an end. Toyota, five-times second-place finishers at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, have won the famous French endurance race. The pair of works TS050 Hybrids recorded a comprehensive victory at La Sarthe, with the winning #8 car of Sébastien Buemi, Fernando Alonso and Kazuki…
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Bruno Senna talks 2017: “600hp, more downforce, great circuits and winning races!”
With the 2017 FIA World Endurance Championship begining this weekend, we caught up with Rebellion Racing’s Bruno Senna to get his thoughts ahead of the new season. The Brazilian is set for his second full season in LMP2, however over the winter has made the switch between RGR Sport and Rebellion Racing, who have stepped…
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Porsche fend off Toyota to win in Shanghai
An unfortunate puncture for Toyota cost them the chance of going for the win, but it was a combination of a poor day for Audi and a win for Porsche which has sealed the manufactures championship for Porsche in Shanghai for the second year running. However the drivers title will go to the wire in…
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Audi claim unlikely victory in Spa thriller
What seemed to be a race for Toyota went up in smoke with two hours remaining. Reliability issues were the story of the day, which led to an unlikely victory for Audi in Belguim. Toyota seemed to have it in the bag going into the final half of the race, however with two hours to…
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Matthew Howson and Richard Bradley return to KCMG for Le Mans
Despite not running a full season in LMP2 this year, KCMG will be back in the prototype class at Le Mans in a bid to defend their 2015 success. Today (28/04/2016), the Chinese team has confirmed that 2015 Le Mans winners, Matthew Howson and Richard Bradley will return to the team alongside Tsugio Matsuda for…
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ELMS: G-Drive win the 4 Hours of Silverstone
After a chaotic start, the G-Drive team ran a perfect race to secure victory in the European Le Mans Series season opener at Silverstone. In LMP3, United Autosports battled hard with the Graff team, which ended in a 1-2 for United Autosports. JMW Motorsport took LMGTE honors in their Ferrari 458. The first ELMS race of the year…
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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…