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AUDI ON POLE AS ALENCON LOCAL WEAVES HIS MAGIC
Audi will start this weekend's Le Mans 24 hour race from pole with local driver Benoit Treluyer setting the quickest time in an exciting final qualifying session. Treluyer, from the town of Alencon, 50 minutes north of the track, took advantage of a relatively clear track to record a time of 3m25.799s to take the coveted pole. "I am very happy. I just really realise now that it is just fantastic for me." he said/ "I was born so close to here and the 24 Hours is such a challenge and I was not even thinking about the pole position and then I did and it is just fantastic." Alongside Treluyer on the front row will be his team mate Romain Dumas who held out the Peugeot of Simon Pagenaud, Sebastien Bourdais and Pedro Lamy. "The car was quick" said Dumas, "but unfortunately I didn’t manage to get a perfect lap. The first row for Audi - that is very nice and shows clearly that we are competitive. We were fast with new tires and old tires and that is a good sign for the race." Pagenaud looked set to challenge for the pole but traffic held him up on for several laps and he was forced to settle for third place. Wednesday's provisional pole winner Stephane Sarrazin was also hampered by traffic and could only manage fourth for and all Peugeot second row. Dindo Cappello, Alan McNish and seven time Le Mans winner Tom Kristensen were next in their Audi R18 alongside the Marc Gene, Alex Wurz and Anthony Davidson Peugeot.
Continue reading...REJECTED INDYCAR DESIGN TO RUN AT LE MANS
Thursday, June 9, 2011
The DeltaWing project, rejected by Indycar, will get a new lease of life with the announcement that Highcroft racing intend to run a two seat version of the car at the 2012 Le Mans 24 hour race. The Project 56 group brings together the design talents of DeltaWing Racing Cars LLC, the manufacturing capabilities of Dan Gurney's All American Racers and back-to-back American Le Mans Series championship winning racing team, Highcroft Racing. American Le Mans Series founder Dr. Don Panoz has also joined the project as a key advisor. Le Mans organisers the ACO (Automobile Club de l’Ouest) have announced that the controversial new design will be given special dispensation to run as an additional 56th entry. The Project 56 Group is in discussion with engine partners to provide a 1.6-litre turbocharged power plant for the project producing only 300 horsepower. Key to the car's speed will be its light weight of only 475 kg and a low drag co-efficient of 0.24. The car features an extremely narrow front track – minimising the horsepower required to push the car to estimated speeds of 200mph.
Continue reading...LE MANS DAY 1: Peugeot pounce on provisional pole
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Just when it looked like Audi was set to dominate practice & qualifying fir the 2011 Le Mans 24 hours, along came Stephane Sarrazin. With half an hour of the first session remaining, Sarrazin grabbed provisional pole position with a lap of 3’27’’033. And with a strong chance of rain for tonight's final session it may well be good enough to give Peugeot the coveted pole position. Earlier in the day Audi dominated the opening practice session with all three R18s at the top of the time sheets. The team, which had set the fastest times in the April test session looked set to continue it's advantage over the Peugeot but that was until Sarrazin's last minute charge.
Continue reading...LISTEN TO LE MANS LIVE
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
It’s become a Le Mans tradition, Radio Le Mans which started as a small project to give the vast army of British fans something to listen to has since developed into the International voice of Sportscar Racing. Once again John Hindaugh and the team will be on hand at Le Mans all week to give you [...]
Continue reading...AUDI’S NEW WAR PAINT AS THE BATTLE FOR LE MANS BEGINS
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Audi have unveiled the new livery that the team will take to the 2011 Le mans 24 hours. The new look graphics mark a return to the traditional silver dominated look that has long been a part of the companies rich motorsport tradition. The new look will be seen in public for the first time this weekend when the new R18 takes to the track at Le Mans for the return of the traditional test day. The R18 design represents a radical departure for Audi from their previous Le Mans winning cars with the closed coupe aiming to take full aerodynamic advantage of the new ACO regulations. The livery of the cars is also makes a major feature of carbon fibre, the extremely light and, at the same time, high-strength material, which now plays an increasingly important role in the development of new production cars. "Carbon fibre is ideally suited for lightweight design and construction," explains Head of Audi MotorsportDr. Wolfgang Ullrich. "We have deliberately made this material and the ultra lightweight technology visual for Le Mans. Lightweight design has occupied us for many years in motorsport. Everything that we have learnt over the years and especially about lightweight design and construction during development of the R18 TDI will also be available for our customers in the future - either in the form of greater performance or in the shape of low fuel consumption and lower emissions."
Continue reading...ASTON MARTIN BUCK THE LE MANS COUPE TREND
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Aston Martin Racing announces today its plans for the new season including the unveiling of a new ground-up developed LMP1 race car, the AMR-One, as well as confirming the driver line-up and planned race programme. The Gulf Liveried Aston Martin AMR-One is a new open-top LMP1 race car featuring a 2.0 litre [...]
Continue reading...PEUGEOT UNVEILS NEW LE MANS HYBRID AT GENEVA
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Following the launch in Paris of the Peugeot 908 in February, a diesel-hybrid version of the new car has now been unveiled at this year’s Geneva Motor Show. The new Peugeot 908 has been designed to comply with the latest Le Mans endurance racing regulations and will play a major part in the Brand’s 2011 environmental [...]
Continue reading...PEUGEOT REVEALS NEW LE MANS RACER
Friday, February 4, 2011
Peugeot Sport have unveiled their challenger to retake the Le Mans 24 hour from arch-rival Audi with the new 908. Although visually similar to the original 908 908 HDi FAP, the new car has been radically changed to meet the new LMP1 regulations of event organisers the ACO. The 908 most notably features the so-called shark's fin engine-cover appendix which has sadly been mandated by the new rules. Once again it is a closed-cockpit car, but now features four identical sized wheels as pioneered by Nick Wirth with the ALMS HPD LMP1 two years ago. The new car has an all new engine, a 550-horsepower, 3.7-litre V8 HDi FAP diesel engine.
Continue reading...CLASSIC PORSCHE LINE UP FOR PHILLIP ISLAND
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Porsche have continued their recent support for the Phillip Island Historic Classic with the announcement of a star line up of cars for the meeting on March 18 - 20. The cars coming the Porsche Museum include the famous 935/78 coupe nick-named ‘Moby Dick’ by Porsche race mechanics because of its large and extended ‘whale tail’. The Moby Dick was with climax of 935 race car development. Powered by a 621 kW (845 hp) turbocharged 3.2 litre six-cylinder development of the production 911 engine, it reached a top speed of 366 km/h at Le Mans in 1978. Perhaps the most recognisable of all Porsche race cars – the famous 956/962 which won the Le Mans 24 Hour seven times between 1982 and 1994 – is also part of the exclusive collection that will be seen at the Phillip Island Classic in March. The car secured for Australia is the Rothmans 962 raced to victory in 1987 by Derek Bell, Hans Stuck and Al Holbert. From the 1960s comes the eight cylinder 908/02 Spyder that won the 1969 Targa Florio and the 718 RS 60 Spyder that won the 1960 Daytona 24 Hour race. Other special Porsche's in the collection include the lightweight 911 SC raced by Walter Rohrl in the gruelling 1980 San Remo rally and a V10-engined Porsche Carrera GT road car from 2003.
Continue reading...PORSCHE UNVEIL 918 RSR AT DETROIT
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Porsche is continuing to extend its performance in the field of hybrid technology with an exciting new release at this years North American International Auto Show in Detroit. The two-seater mid-engine coupé the 918 RSR clearly reveals what happens when the technology fitted in the 911 GT3 R hybrid and the design of the 918 Spyder are transferred to a modern, innovative super sports car. The 911 GT3 R hybrid racing car proved to be an attention magnet during competition racing on the Nuerburgring Nordschleife circuit, during the American Le Mans Series races (ALMS) in Road Atlanta/USA and the ILMC run in China's Zhuhai. It demonstrated its massive performance potential under realistic motor racing conditions against top competitors. The 911 GT3 R Hybrid, referred to internally as the “Race Lab" actually surpassed the high expectations of Porsche Motorsport. Competitiveness, high reliability and exemplary fuel efficiency combined with top performance under-scored the Porsche technicians' basic idea of generating additional power in an intelligent manner. The 911 GT3 R Hybrid obtains its additional power from its own vehicle dynamics when braking. Porsche is now transplanting this technology into the mid-engine coupé 918 RSR, the motor sports version of the 918 Spyder concept car.
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