Qualifying
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Audi take pole at Silverstone
The first qualifying session for the 2016 FIA World Endurance Championship ended with the LMP1 pole going the way of the #7 Audi. G-Drive Racing will start tomorrow’s race from pole in LMP2, while the #71 Ferrari will lead away the GTE-PRO class, and the #88 Porsche the GTE-AM field. In LMP1, there was nothing…
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Porsche Carrera Cup GB and ELMS join WEC at Silvertone opener
The 2016 FIA World Endurance Championship kicks off over a three day event at Silverstone in Great Britain over the weekend of the 15th-17th April. However the WEC is not the only championship heading onto the track across the three days. The Porsche Carrera Cup GB will be on track for the second round of their championship after…
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Porsche make it eight poles out of eight
Porsche secured a clean sweep of pole positions in the 2015 FIA World Endurance Championship earlier today, taking yet another one-two at the Bahrain International Circuit. Timo Bernhard, Brendon Hartley and Mark Webber need to finish third in tomorrow’s 6 Hours of Bahrain to take the drivers’ title, and the trio ensured they have the…
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Porsche on pole yet again, Ferrari head up GT
In qualifying for the penultimate race of the WEC season, Ferrari locked out the front row in the GTE-Pro category. In LMP1, Porsche took its seventh pole position out of seven, with the championship-leading #17 car set to start Sunday’s race from pole. An average lap time of 2:02.243 gave Toni Vilander and Gianmaria Bruni in…
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Porsche Pole at Fuji
Porsche have once again taken pole position ahead of the weekend’s race, maintaining their 100% success rate this year. However, Audi are not far off the pace. Tomorrow’s winner is still anyone’s guess. Pole went to the #17 Porsche or Webber, Hartley and Bernhard which means they will be starting in the best position possible…
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Aston Martin hoping for warm conditions
Today’s qualifying session for the 6 Hours of the Nürburgring was as close as ever. Despite Ferrari claiming the top two positions in GTE-PRO and pole in GTE-AM, warm conditions out on track helped Aston Martin salvage some strong starting positions for the race. Aston Martin had a strong qualifying at the Nürburgring claiming third, sixth and…
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Porsche on pole for the 24 hours
Porsche Team retained its dominating position at the top of the time sheets in Thursday’s final qualifying sessions, with no improvements seen on the new lap record 3:16.887 posted by Neel Jani on Wednesday. Further down the grid, it was a disastrous day for Corvette Racing, with the American team forced to withdraw one of…
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Qualifying: Porsche smashes the lap record
The first qualifying session at this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans yesterday started with a bang: Porsche followed up their superiority in free practice with a spectacular first few laps in the evening session. Neel Jani proceeded to smash the previous lap record (3:19.074, from 2011) with a lap of 3:16.887. The Porsche trio…