LMP1
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6 Hours of Shanghai: 3 Hour Report
The Six Hours of Shanghai is the penultimate race of this seasons World Endurance Championship. With one race to go after this one, and as many points in it in the championship battle, this race is set to be as important as ever. We take a look at the first 3 hours. Hour 1 The…
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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 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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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
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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LM24: Hours 7 to 12 – The battle continues
The 2015 24 Hours of Le Mans continues at a blinding pace, with the works LMP1 teams delivering a titanic battle for the overall lead of the race. At the halfway stage, Porsche leads from Audi – but that only tells half the story. Hour 7 began in the same vein as the previous 6,…
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Porsche tops the timesheets in first practice
The 2015 24 Hours of Le Mans finally kicked off today as the 56 starters rolled out for the first practice session of the weekend. The weather over the course of the four-hour session was any motor racing team’s nightmare, with spells of rain hitting different parts of the circuit intermittently. In contrast to previous…
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24 Hours of Le Mans 2015: LMP1 Preview
This season’s 24 Hours of Le Mans promises to deliver one of the greatest races ever since at the Circuit de la Sarthe. Four separate manufacturers with two- and even three-car teams is almost unheard of the modern Le Mans era; add two newly engined Rebellion AERs and the ByKolles cars into mix and we…