LMP
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Win a Strakka Racing brake disc
The date: 21 November 2015. The place: Bahrain International Circuit. Strakka Racing is on the absolute limit in an effort to finish the 2015 World Endurance Championship as best it can. The sun sets behind the dunes, but the cars keep going. The brake discs glow red, piercing the darkness. We’ve joined up with Strakka…
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Toyota, Audi, Porsche & Ford testing at Aragón
Toyota, Audi, Porsche and Ford are just some of the teams putting their cars through their paces in private tests at MotorLand Aragón, Spain, in the wake of last week’s 6 Hours of Silverstone. MotorLand Aragón has often played host to WEC teams’ testing programmes, and Audi, Porsche, Toyota and Ford have all travelled to the 5.4km…
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Exciting season opener in LMP2
At the unveiling of the 2016 WEC season in Paris in February, it was already clear that the current season would offer one of the best LMP2 fields seen so far in the WEC’s short history. The established teams from 2015 were joined by four new names in the WEC’s second prototype class. With a total…
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Audi abandon Silverstone appeal
Audi Sport Team Joest have abandoned their appeal after their disqualification from the 6 Hours of Silverstone. The #7 R18 of André Lotterer, Benoit Tréyuler and Marcel Fässler crossed the finish line around half a minute ahead of the #2 Porsche 919 Hybrid, but was excluded from the results due to excess wear on the…
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Are Toyota back on track?
Arguably the biggest disappointment of the 2015 season was Toyota Gazoo Racing. Despite being reigning world champions, the Japanese-entered, German-based team quickly realised that it had been left behind by its LMP1 competitors and all-but abandoned the season to focus on 2016. WEC-Magazin takes a look at the numbers from Silverstone to gauge where Toyota may…
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Driver’s view: Simon Trummer from Silverstone
We travelled to the first race of the 2016 WEC with some brand-new parts on the car. Unfortunately we were unable to test them properly beforehand, so we weren’t entirely sure how they would perform. Friday’s free practice sessions, most of which took place in wet conditions, went pretty well. We seemed to be able to…
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Audi take impressive victory at Silverstone
The #7 Audi R18 of André Lotterer, Benoit Tréyuler and Marcel Fässler took the overall victory after an incident-packed 6 Hours of Silverstone. The pole-sitting car didn’t have everything its own way, however, and benefitted from a number of issues affecting the Porsches, including a massive accident for Brendon Hartley in the #1 919 Hybrid two hours…
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Rene Rast: “The car felt very good yesterday in the dry”
Rene Rast set pole position in LMP2 alongside Roman Rusinov for G-Drive Racing today for tomorrow’s FIA WEC season opener at Silverstone. Rast confirmed that despite the qualifying session taking place in the wet, the #26 Ligier was being run on the dry set up the team had worked on over the free practice sessions…
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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…