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Harry Tincknell Q&A: This is going to be really different!
Harry Tincknell is one of the latest drivers to arrive in the top class of the World Endurance Championship. He will be making his LMP1 debut in April for Nissan in their GT-R LM at the 6 Hours of Silverstone. We caught up with him in this exclusive interview ahead of his first full season in…
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Nissan announce three more drivers
After a secretive year of information around the Nissan LMP1 project, the drivers are now beginning to break cover. Marc Gene, Harry Tincknell, Olivier Pla and Le Mans extra Tsugio Matsuda will be joined by Nissan regular and GT-R LM NISMO test driver, Michael Krumm and GT Academy winners Lucas Ordonez and Jann Mardenbourgh. When…
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Davidson targets Le Mans victory
The Brit, Antony Davidson shared a very successful season with his teammate Sebastian Buemi last year. 2014 saw the duo take the World Drivers’ Championship for the first time, as well as contribution to Toyota’s first ever WEC teams championship triumph. Despite winning the world championship in 2014, there were 3 races that they did not…
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Nissan reveal new GT-R LM
Last night at between Sunday and Monday, Nissan finally launched their new endurance programme. In the half-time of the Super Bowl, the Japanese manufacture presented a one and a half minute commercial which released the manufacture’s new car for the first time to the public. With the slogan “A Hero Comes Home” the advert advertised…
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2015 WEC begins to take shape
The long winter season break is almost over for the WEC, with the full grids for the 2015 season and the 83rd edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans set to be announced at 15:00 on February fifth (CET). Here is a round up of all the big news from the last few days.…
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WEC drivers set to star in 24 Hours of Daytona
The TUDOR United Sportscar Championship is heading into it’s second season this weekend with the season kicking off with the world famous 24 hour race at Daytona. Among the 53 starters there is a healthy representation of WEC drivers that will be competing in the endurance classic. We take a look though each of the drivers ahead…
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Awards for Kristensen and Lotterer
Last season was among the most difficult in the history of Audi Sport Team Joest. After the team managed to claim the world championships in both 2012 and 2013, missing out on the championship last year was not in the script for Audi. It wasn’t for a want of trying at Audi, the team fought…
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Toyota begin testing 2015 car
After Porsche were the first LMP1 team to reveal images of their new prototype ahead of the 2015 season, Toyota have also been testing in the south of France. The Japanese team spent three days testing a modified version of the 2014 model of the TS040 at Le Castellet. Over the course of the test,…
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Porsche introduce the new 919 hybrid
Porsche have rolled out their updated 2015 specification Porsche 919 Hybrid at their in house test track in Weissach. Marc Lieb was behind the wheel of the new 919 Hybrid in it’s first shake down last week. According to Porsche, the the new 919 is an evolution of the race winning 2014 version. The drive train…