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24h Le Mans: Toyota’s race falls apart in astonishing half hour
Le Mans has never been a race short on drama, especially after the conclusion to last year’s 24 hours, but the 2017 running looks to have delivered yet another chapter of Le Mans history. The #1 Porsche 919 Hybrid of André Lotterer, Nick Tandy and Neel Jani leads at the halfway point, but that only…
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Astonishing Koyabashi lap takes pole for Toyota
A new post-Mulsanne-Chicane lap record for Japanese driver Kamui Kobayashi secured pole for the #7 Toyota Gazoo Racing ahead of this weekend’s 24 Hours of Le Mans. The 3:14.791 lap came in the first of two qualifying sessions in the sweltering heat of Thursday evening. The lap was so quick, in fact, that it broke…
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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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Toyota fastest at Spa
The #7 Toyota Gazoo Racing TS050 topped the time sheets in both of the first two free practice sessions for Saturday’s 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps. Mike Conway was the fastest man in FP1, while Kamui Kobyashi posted the fastest lap in the second 90-minute session. Toyota travelled to Belgium with both its high- and low-downforce…
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Toyota take Six Hours of Silverstone victory
The #8 Toyota of Anthony Davidson, Kazuki Nakajima and Sebastian Buemi has started the season with a win. However after the Japanese brand was confident heading into the race, Porsche was too close for comfort. The race was won by Sebastian Buemi in the last 20 minutes as he overtook Brendon Hartley on his newer…
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6h Silverstone: Leading Cars
The six hours of Silverstone are underway and the tops of the four classes are fiercely contested. For all those who need a quick overview of the top positions, we have the current leaders of the race. [tabs] [tab title=”LMP1″ start=open] Team Number Car Toyota Gazoo Racing 8 Toyota TS050 – Hybrid Porsche…
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Toyota take the honours in FP1
Toyota Gazoo Racing recorded the fastest time in the first free practice session of the season, with Sébastien Buemi’s early best of 1:40.104 proving unassailable over the remainder of the 90 minutes. Second quickest was Brendon Hartley for Porsche, 0.7 seconds further back. Mike Conway was third in the #7 Toyota TS050 with a 1:40.960.…
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LMP1 2017: Meet the Cars
At Monza on Friday the presentation of this season’s new LMP1 cars took place. Over the course of this weekend, Toyota, Porsche and all the other WEC teams will be hitting the track for the official test session for the 2017 season. Porsche 919 Hybrid Porsche are once again the defending champions in LMP1. To be…
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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’s always…