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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 Luís 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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Kubica joins ByKolles in LMP1
Robert Kubica has been announced as the lead driver for LMP1 team ByKolles for the 2017 FIA World Endurance Championship. The former F1 driver joins the Austrian-entered squad on a full-season basis after successfully testing the car at the official test in Bahrain last November. The Pole raced in Formula 1 until 2011, when a serious…
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Toyota confirm third car for 2017
Toyota Gazoo Racing have announced a number of changes to their LMP1 programme in the run-up to the 2017 season, with new additions to the driver line-up and three cars confirmed to run at Spa and Le Mans for the first time since joining the FIA WEC in 2012. With last year’s heartbreaking conclusion to…
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World Champions Dumas and Lieb to leave Porsche
The newly crowned World Endurance Drivers’ Champions, Romain Dumas and Marc Lieb, are to end their relationships with Porsche as factory drivers in a major shake-up of the Porsche LMP1 driver line-up. Mark Webber’s departure from the sister car leaves a total of three empty seats to be filled for the 2017 season. Lieb and…
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Martin Tomczyk set to lead BMW GTE-Programme
The 2018 FIA World Endurance Championship will mark BMW’s long-awaited return to GTE racing. Besides the fact that the new BMW programme will be based on an as-yet unknown platform, no further details of the German marque’s plans are currently available. According to motorsport.de, German driver Martin Tomczyk has been chosen to lead the brand-new…
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Mexico to be ‘one of the best races of the year’, says Lucas di Grassi
This weekend, the WEC debuts in Mexico. The Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez is uncharted territory for the WEC, so every team will be driving into the unknown come raceday. We spoke with Audi driver Lucas di Grassi ahead of the the first race at the latest WEC circuit. “The Six Hours of Mexico will be one of the…
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Nathanaël Berthon retains Le Mans seat
With just a week to go until Le Mans, French driver Nathanaël Berthon suddenly found himself without a seat. The former Formula E driver was forced to vacate his full-season G-Drive Racing drive in favour of Briton Will Stevens. Now the Frenchman has found a seat elsewhere. Greaves Motorsport, ELMS champions in 2015, have taken on…
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Driver’s view: Simon Trummer from Spa
The race in Spa was definitely one of the highlights of the year for us. For us drivers, this circuit is an unbelievable thrill to drive. The perfect weather conditions made the weekend even better. We were unable to run through our testing programme in Free Practice 1, as we found a fault in the…