Le Mans
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24 Hours of Le Mans 2015: GTE-Pro Preview
What GTE-Pro lacks in quantity, it more than makes up for in quality: nine cars spread across four factory teams almost exclusively comprising works drivers. The GTE machines are so finely balanced that every single car is genuinely in with a shot at victory. Expect frantic wheel-to-wheel, door-banging action in the closest class at this…
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24 Hours of Le Mans 2015: LMP2 Preview
Long considered an ailing category in which simply getting to the finish would secure your team a podium position, LMP2 has been completely transformed in recent years. Taking the grid at this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans will be a total of 19 cars made by seven different manufacturers and powered by three different…
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24 Hours of Le Mans 2015: LMP1 Preview
This season’s 24 Hours of Le Mans promises to deliver one of the greatest races ever since at the Circuit de la Sarthe. Four separate manufacturers with two- and even three-car teams is almost unheard of the modern Le Mans era; add two newly engined Rebellion AERs and the ByKolles cars into mix and we…
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GT Academy winner bags LMP2 seat
2014 GT Academy winner Gaetan Paletou has been given the chance of a lifetime to race in LMP2 at the famous 24-hour race next weekend. With only nine months of experience racing predominantly GT cars, Paletou is the latest graduate of Nissan’s fabled gaming-to-racing training programme that has produced current LMP1 drivers Lucas Ordonez, Mark…
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The 2011 24 Hours of Le Mans
In the run-up to Le Mans, we at wec-magazin.com are taking a look back at the great tradition and character of the great 24-hour race. In this article, we turn to the 2011 24 Hours of Le Mans – one race that may still be fresh in most fans’ memories, but which delivered an unrivalled…
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Kristensen returns to Le Mans
For a racing driver it’s always difficult to finally hang up the helmet and turn to new challenges. After such an illustrious career and an incredible nine victories at Le Mans, for Tom Kristensen this task must have been all the more difficult. Last season Kristensen announced his retirement from racing, but this year Mr…
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Porsche confirm pace in afternoon session
After the lunch break the teams and drivers set back out on track at a wet circuit at Le Mans for the afternoon test session. Porsche once again set the pace and confirmed that records will be beaten in this years 83rd running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Porsche once again topped the…