WEC
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Analysis: Did Porsche's Strategy Call Cost Them The Race?
The 6 Hours of Bahrain was a testament to the excitement of modern endurance racing. It had drama, tension and intrigue from start to finish and was decided by tiny margins. Did one strategy call from the Porsche 919 Hybrid team cost them a potential race victory? Ultimately, the #7 Toyota TS040 took a relatively comfortable victory in…
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Race Preview – Round 7 Bahrain
Saturday sees the FIA World Endurance Championship arrive at the Bahrain International Circuit in Sakhir for the third running of the 6 Hours of Bahrain. As was the case in 2013, the race will start in daylight and be run into the Arabian night. In fact, with the race due to start at 4.00pm local…
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Porsche on Top in Bahrain
Neel Jani left his competitors behind in tonight’s free practice sessions in Bahrain and got the fastest time for Porsche. The Dane, Nicki Thiim set a blistering time in his GTE-AM Aston Martin to be the fastest of all the GT cars. The first day in Bahrain is now over and Porsche driver, Neel Jani set…
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Porsche Announce 2015 Driver Line-Up
After speculation about Porsche’s LMP1 drive line up has got larger and larger over the last few weeks, the manufacture has finally put an end to the rumors and have now officially announced their LMP1 drive line-up for next year. In recent weeks rumours have been doing the rounds that former Formula 1 World Champion Jenson Button was…
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Nissan Driver Line-up Still Under Wraps
The 2015 FIA World Endurance Championship season marks the return of Nissan to the top class of prototype racing for the first time since the early 1990s. The Nissan GT-R LM NISMO is set to be unveiled on 8 December, and is reportedly already testing at Nissan’s top-secret test centre in Arizona. The driver line-up…
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G-Drive Plan Second Car for 2015
For the Russian G-Drive Racing team the 2014 season has been a very positive one to date. Since the beginning of the season, the team surprised with a strong performances and lead in almost every race. In the past six World Championship races, the trio put their car on the LMP2 pole position. On four…
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Entry List Announced for Bahrain
The FIA has published the official entry list a week ahead of the 6 hour race in Bahrain. After the last few round the entry list looks more familiar for the nest race. OAK Racing has announced that they will be completing in Bahrain with the drivers, Mark Patterson, Keiko Ihara and David Cheng. In the GT…
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Porsche 919 gets Third Podium This Year
The Porsche 919 hybrid finished its third race on the podium in in China last time out. The sixth world championship race in Shanghai saw the driver’s Neel Jani, Marc Lieb and Romain Dumas drive from pole position the third overall. The sister car of Brendon Hartley, Mark Webber and Timo Bernhard picked up a puncture…