LMP

  • 6 Hours of the Nurburgring: 3 hour report

    6 Hours of the Nurburgring: 3 hour report

    The FIA World Endurance Championship returned to action after Le Mans at the Nurburgring today. With grand marshal Hans Stuck hailing the attendance as “the perfect scenario” and Motors TV commentator Graham Goodwin calling the venue “a fabulous place for a motor race” we were all set for a classic motor race. We take a look…

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  • Laurens Vanthoor aiming for LMP1 with Audi

    Laurens Vanthoor aiming for LMP1 with Audi

    Laurens Vanthoor is one of the most exciting young names in sports cars at the moment. The Belgian racer has already won a long list of championships including the German F3, FIA GT and the Blancpain Endurance series, as well as the 24 Hours of the Nurburgring in a career which has only seen Vanthoor…

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  • Porsche commits LMP1 programme through to 2018

    Fresh off the back of the victory at the 2015 24 Hours of Le Mans, Porsche has confirmed its current LMP1 programme through to 2018. The German manufacturer is the first to confirm its participation in the new LMP1 regulations, which come into force in 2017 and are expected to represent an evolution of the current…

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  • 31 Entries confirmed for the Nurburgring

    31 Entries confirmed for the Nurburgring

    In a fortnights time, The World Endurance Championship will be back after its long summer break after Le Mans. The circuit will be the world renown Nurburgring, the first time in WEC history the championship has races in Germany. This means it will be the first home race in the championship for every German team…

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  • No LMP1 programme for BMW

    No LMP1 programme for BMW

    Since the FIA World Endurance Championship returned to the motorsport scene in 2012, more and more manufacturers have decided to join the fray. Toyota, Porsche and Nissan have all been coaxed back to the LMP1 class in recent years thanks to a relatively open rulebook and close racing. Recently, speculation has been rife of a…

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  • Strakka announce LMP1 programme for 2017

    Yesterday’s announcement of the four chosen chassis manufacturers in LMP2 from 2017 (WEC-Magazin reported) has laid the foundations for the ACO’s second category moving forward. However, a number of chassis manufacturers appear to have been left out in the cold. One of them, the Strakka-Dome partnership, has now announced its plans to switch to the…

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  • ACO announce successful LMP2 chassis builders

    Late last year the world motorsports governing body, the FIA, and the guardians of endurance racing, the ACO, announced a raft of root-and-branch changes to the LMP2 category. Chassis would be limited, they said, to just four manufacturers and a single engine supplier would be selected, despite the class flourishing in recent years. After an…

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  • Earl Bamber: From Porsche junior to Le Mans winner

    The 14th June 2015 is a day Earl Bamber will probably never forget. Together with its teammates Nick Tandy and Nico Hülkenberg, the New Zealander won the most famous endurance race in the world – the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Victory at the Circuit de la Sarthe saw the young Kiwi’s name go down…

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  • Lammers and Verstappen planning for Le Mans

    The WEC is one of the handful of racing series in which age isn’t much of an obstacle. Thanks to the wide range of cars and the low costs, any former Formula 1 drivers have the chance to prolong their careers in the WEC. Dutch driver Jos Verstappen is evidently the latest to turn to…

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