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Tag Archive | "Sports & GT"
SOCCER SUPERSTAR HEADS TO LE MANS
Italian football great, and current Sydney FC A=League star, Alessandro Del Piero is heading to Le Mans. The race, not the football team. Del Piero is joining forces with US actor and reguler racer Patrick Dempsey to race at the Le Mans 24 Hours in June. Dempsey/Del Piero Racing have submitted an entry for one car to the [...]
Continue reading...TOYOTA SET THE EARLY PACE IN SHANGHAI
Saturday, October 27, 2012
Toyota Racing continued their good run of form setting the pace in practice for the final round of the FIA World Endurance Championship, the Six Hours of Shanghai in China. Following an exciting home victory at Fuji Speedway two weeks ago, Alex Wurz and Nicolas Lapierre return in the TS030 HYBRID, although Kazuki Nakajima is absent [...]
Continue reading...PEACE IN OUR TIME OR DEATH OF A SOLDIER: US SPORTSCAR RACING TO ‘MERGE”
Thursday, September 6, 2012
The Automobile Club de l’Ouest (ACO), organisers of the Le Mans 24 Hour classic and the World Endurance Championship, have welcomed the planned "merger" between American sportscar groups GRAND-AM and the American Le Mans Series. In a statement issued today The Automobile Club said that the merger, "will increase the already large audience for endurance racing in North America and at the same time boost its international impact." In its role as creator and organiser of the Le Mans 24 Hours since 1923 and promoter of the FIA World Endurance Championship, the ACO will play an active role in the development of this new championship. The ACO has been a major player in endurance on the North-American continent and it launched the ALMS with its partner Don Panoz in 1999, after the creation of the Petite Le Mans race in 1998 on the Road Atlanta circuit in Georgia. In 2013, the American Le Mans Series and GRAND-AM will continue to run separately like in previous seasons. The details of this unified series under the same banner will be announced later on by the promoters of this new championship. It will begin with the 52nd Rolex Daytona 24 Hours in 2014.
Continue reading...MEANWHILE IN A LAND FAR, FAR AWAY
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Asia’s newest international championship, the Audi R8 LMS Cup, heads to the desert plains of Inner Mongolia for two races this weekend at the unforgiving Ordos International Circuit. With a mix of experienced professionals and fledging talent, the Audi R8 LMS Cup has attracted attention far beyond China and Asia. As the brand’s first-ever one-make series, [...]
Continue reading...ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER AUDI
Monday, July 30, 2012
Audi's dominance of 24 hour endurance racing has continued with Frank Stippler (DEU), Rene Rast (DEU) and Andrea Piccini (ITA) winning the Spa 24 hour race in Belgium. Audi finished one-two in the classic race after a commanding performance throughout. The win marks the first time that an automobile manufacturer has won the three most important 24-hour races in Europe: Nürburgring (D), Le Mans (F) and now Spa-Francorchamps (B). 66 cars from twelve different marques competed at the 54th running of the race on the Grand Prix circuit in the Belgian Ardennes. After 509 laps on the 7.004-kilometre track the two Audi R8 LMS ultra cars prevailed against their competition from BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, Ferrari, McLaren and company.
Continue reading...AUDI STILL ON TOP BUT TOYOTA TEAM IMPRESSES
Monday, June 4, 2012
Alan McNish has set the fastest time at the Le Mans test day, but Audi will leave the circuit with plenty to think about after several niggling mechanical problems and a crash to McNish late in the day. With a fastest lap of of 3m 25.927s, the Scotsman was half a second quicker than team-mate Andre Lotterer in the second Audi R18 e-tron quattro, which recorded a 3m26.468s. With the Hybrids on top in the intra team fight for the fastest lap it was Loic Duval who was the fastest non hybrid car with a 3m26.561. Again the main talking point in the second session was the speed of the new Toyota TS030 Petrol Hybrid. The car, driven by Alexander Wurz split the Audi R10 Ultras with a 3m27.204 in what was a most impressive debut.
Continue reading...BOWE TESTS BATHURST BEAST
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Australian Touring Car Legend John Bowe has had his first taste of the Ferrari power he hopes will take him to victory in the upcoming Bathurst 12 hour race. Bowe took to the wheel of the Il Bello Rosso 458 GT3 at the Phillip Island circuit in warm and fine conditions, the multiple Aussie Champ delighted at what he'd seen so far. “It’s incredibly impressive, with massive amount of grip compared to the Mustang so really, it’s like ‘wow’!" he said. Bowe, who has previously raced an early model Ferrari in the days of The Nations Cup, said that there was considerable difference between the Italian supercars then and now. “The 458 has a much nicer gear change than the previous Ferrari, a nicer brake feel, and it’s got a lot more gizmos to work around, and so far I’ve only done a very limited amount which lends to a lot more to come."
Continue reading...DUBAI 24 SET TO ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK
Thursday, January 12, 2012
All the transport containers have been placed in the paddock of the Dubai Autodrome, all the drivers and team members are flying in from all over the world: this week, the 2012 motor racing season officially gets underway with the seventh running of the Dunlop 24H DUBAI, No less than 20 car brands will be present on the grid for this year?s Dunlop 24H DUBAI, the first international endurance race of the year for GTs, touring cars and 24H specials.
Continue reading...REITER ROCKS WITH RAD CAMARO
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
International GT racing will see a spectacular and powerful package in 2012. The German company SARENI United is now offering the newly designed Camaro GT. The US car will make an impression on racing tracks all around the world with its 800 Nm from up to 650 HP. The power is transmitted to the rear tyres from a 7.9 litre eight-cylinder (V8) by a newly designed HOLINGER gear box. The HOLINGER speed shift system with paddle shifts on the steering wheel is extremely light, weighing only 37 kg, shifts gears very fast and is designed for high torque. The US engine developer KATECH received clear specifications: close-to-production, low cost, service performance of 10,000 km and maximum power. The car was developed under the direction of Reiter Engineering in Germany. Founder and owner Hans Reiter got the idea when he went to the USA in 2010. “I was immediately fascinated by the design. The Camaro is a real men’s car, a muscle car, it is designed to be on a race track”, says Hans Reiter who founded SARENI United especially for this project.
Continue reading...NEW GT ENDURO FOR ABU DHABI
Saturday, August 6, 2011
The growing popularity of GT endurance racing has received another boost with a new major race announced for Abu Dhabi. The new Gulf 12 Hours is an invitation-only event aimed to support the continued, sustainable growth of motorsport in the United Arab Emirates whilst attracting a wider variety of teams and drivers to the region, without [...]
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