Le Mans
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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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Lopez switch raises further Toyota driver questions
Jos茅-Maria L贸pez hasn鈥檛 had the best of starts to his FIA World Endurance Championship career. The 34-year-old triple World Touring Car Champion, formerly named as a full-season driver for the #8 car alongside Mike Conway and Kamui Kobayashi, has switched to Toyota鈥檚 third car for Le Mans. L贸pez鈥檚 accident at the first round of the…
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Marvin Dienst ready to tackle maiden WEC season
Marvin Dienst will be one of the new names on the FIA World Endurance Championship entry list for 2017. The 20-year-old German has joined Dempsey-Proton Racing for this season and will race in the GTE Am category alongside team boss Christian Ried and Porsche junior driver Matteo Cairoli in a Porsche 911 RSR. It鈥檚 always…
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McLaren eyeing Le Mans comeback
After 19 years since their most recent visit to聽Le Mans, McLaren are weighing up the possibilities of a comeback to the French 24 hour race. The Woking-based team’s new boss, Zak Brown, has admitted he would ‘love to see McLaren go back to Le Mans’. Zak Brown, the executive Director of the McLaren Technology Group…
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Old hands to tackle Le Mans
The 24 Hours of Le Mans is one of the most challenging races in world motorsport, so popular that it often tempts racing drivers back out of retirement. This year, a new effort by the name Racing Team Nederland is set to compete at the endurance classic, as well as the full season of the…
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Derani joins Ford for Le Mans
Brazilian driver Lu铆s Felipe Derani will drive for Ford in the first three rounds of the 2017 FIA World Endurance Championship season, Ford Chip Ganassi Racing confirmed yesterday. The 23-year-old Brazilian enjoyed a breakthough year in 2016, winning the Rolex 24 at Daytona and the 12 Hours of Sebring overall for Extreme Speed Motorsports and…
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Audi and Porsche stick with 2 car Le Mans efforts for 2017
AUTOSPORT聽have revealed that Audi and Porsche will stick to two car efforts next year at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. This news comes to end the speculation that the two German manufactures would return to three car teams in 2017. According to AUTOSPORT, Audi’s Dr Wolfgang Ulrich said that the switch back to a…
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Driver’s view: Simon Trummer at Le Mans
Le Mans week started very positively for us. The team prepared the car really well聽after the Test Day and fitted all the new parts in time. Our shakedown at Le Mans airport was really positive.聽Then came the big shock in Free Practice. Our car caught fire and almost destroyed the entire rear end. The guys…
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The WEC family pull together for Toyota
Sunday the 19th of June 2016 was the day that Toyota should have won the 24 Hours of Le Mans. However, a suspected turbo issue handed victory to Porsche with three minutes left out of the 1440. The devastation of what had happened to Toyota was felt by everyone, and the entire sportscar community has…