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Race-winning Audi disqualified
The race-winning #7 Audi R18 of Benoit Tréyuler, André Lotterer and Marcel Fässler has been excluded from the 6 Hours of Silverstone after failing post-race scrutineering. The #2 Porsche 9191 Hybrid of Neel Jani, Romain Dumas and Marc Lieb therefore inherits the win at the WEC curtain-raiser. As the chequered flag flew just after 6.00pm…
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Ferrari domination at Silverstone in GTE
The 6 Hours of Silverstone was a story of Ferrari domination in both GTE Pro and GTE Am, with AF Corse recording victory in both classes. Compared to the frantic prototype battles up ahead, the GTE classes were an ocean of calm. The #71 Ferrari 488 of Sam Bird and Davide Rigon took a lights-to-flag…
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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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Audi lead at the halfway stage
The pole-sitting #7 Audi R18 of André Lotterer, Benoit Tréyuler and Marcel Fässler leads after three hours of the 6 Hours of Silverstone, but that only tells part of the story in an incident-packed race. The erstwhile leader, the #1 Porsche of Hartley/Webber/Bernhard, is out of the race after a serious incident with the #86…
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ELMS: G-Drive win the 4 Hours of Silverstone
After a chaotic start, the G-Drive team ran a perfect race to secure victory in the European Le Mans Series season opener at Silverstone. In LMP3, United Autosports battled hard with the Graff team, which ended in a 1-2 for United Autosports. JMW Motorsport took LMGTE honors in their Ferrari 458. The first ELMS race of the year…
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Andy Priaulx: “We’re in a good strong position”
Andy Priaulx is making his FIA World Endurance Championship debut with the new Ford team this weekend. However very wet conditions have not played into the British driver’s hands. Priaulx told WEC-Magazin after free practice three today (Saturday 16th April) that it was “difficult to read anything”. It is very much a case of entering into…
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Webber hoping for dry race
Audi Sport Team Joest sprang a surprise in Saturday’s qualifying for Sunday’s 6 Hours of Silverstone, locking out the front row with its pair of R18s. Despite showing impressive pace in free practice, Porsche had to settle for the second row of the grid. Mark Webber feels that the weather conditions played their part. “The…
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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…
