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Goodwood Revival Hosts Largest Ford GT40 Gathering Ever
Goodwood Revival Hosts Largest Ford GT40 Gathering Ever

24 Oct 2013, 10:00 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / This year’s Goodwood Revival hosted the largest ever single make race for the iconic Ford GT40, probably the most coveted American race car ever built (we know it was built in Britain, but shu...

 
Nissan ZEOD RC Hits the Track
Nissan ZEOD RC Hits the Track

22 Oct 2013, 09:54 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Nissan’s brand new ZEOD RC electric prototype made its track debut at Fuji in Japan last weekend, with Super GT driver Michael Krumm behind the steering wheel. Unveiled about a week ago in Jap...

 
Nissan ZEOD RC Makes Public Debut
Nissan ZEOD RC Makes Public Debut

17 Oct 2013, 10:57 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Nissan's ground-breaking ZEOD RC electric race car was unveiled to the public for the very first time at Nismo's headquarters in Yokohama, Japan. Created for the automaker's Le Mans c...

 
Alpine Wins 2013 European Le Mans Series title
Alpine Wins 2013 European Le Mans Series title

30 Sep 2013, 15:18 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Alpine has won the 2013 European Le Mans Series title this weekend, prevailing in its first motor racing season after a 35-year absence. The Alpine A450 driven by Pierre Ragues and Nelson Panciat...

 
Mercedes SL GTR With a Nissan V8 is Thankfully Just a Virtual Concept
Mercedes SL GTR With a Nissan V8 is Thankfully Just a Virtual Concept

18 Sep 2013, 18:01 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / We're all up for the freedom of expression, and we enjoy it every time we find someone who has the ability to create something with help from his/her own creativity. Unfortunately, despite ...

 
Le Mans-Style Radical RXC Arrives in Frankfurt
Le Mans-Style Radical RXC Arrives in Frankfurt

11 Sep 2013, 18:18 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Made by a company known for creating Nurburgring-killing track day cars that don't have anything to do with driving to the mall and/or parking on the curb, the Radical RXC is actually one of th...

 
Porsche LMP1 Race Car Shown in New Pictures
Porsche LMP1 Race Car Shown in New Pictures

27 Aug 2013, 07:55 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / German sportscar manufacturer Porsche has release a new batch of photos of the LMP1 prototype that will try to capture Audi’s crown at next year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans race. Even thoug...

 
Toyota Releases Le Mans 24 Hours Short Film
Toyota Releases Le Mans 24 Hours Short Film

23 Aug 2013, 09:39 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The SP1 class, the creme de la creme of 24-hour racing means more than just taking some prototypes down the track and race them for a full day. Thousands of hours of developing, testing, redevelo...

 
Toyota Prepares Le Mans 24 Hours History Lesson
Toyota Prepares Le Mans 24 Hours History Lesson

23 Aug 2013, 08:44 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Three hundred and sixty four days of preparations, practice, development and testing, all culminating with only one day of hardcore racing - the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The amount of work to face th...

 
People Use Le Mans Racer As Everyday Car in Awesome RS6 Commercial
People Use Le Mans Racer As Everyday Car in Awesome RS6 Commercial

7 Aug 2013, 09:27 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / How has Audi come so far in such a short time? Three decades ago, they were the Volvo makers of today, with no real prestige in the luxury world or credible hyper-performance cars. If you ask the...

 
Ferrari Pondering Le Mans Comeback
Ferrari Pondering Le Mans Comeback

1 Aug 2013, 11:58 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / One month ago today Scuderia Ferrari CEO Stefano Domenicali revealed his team is considering “some interesting projects” for the newly-developed turbocharged 1.6-liter engine that will b...

 
Porsche 962 Crashed at Goodwood 2013
Porsche 962 Crashed at Goodwood 2013

17 Jul 2013, 13:11 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / We’ve seen plenty of crashes at the Goodwood Festival of Speed this year, one more expensive than the other, judging by the value of the vehicles that had to leave the event with all sorts of ...

 
Watch Toyota Le Mans Prototypes Racing at Goodwood
Watch Toyota Le Mans Prototypes Racing at Goodwood

13 Jul 2013, 11:54 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Toyota didn't miss the occasion to participate at the Goodwood Festival of Speed this year and brought the best cars it had. Excluding the GT 86 Griffon that was seen in the UK for the first...

 
Ferrari Could Adapt New F1 Engine for 2014 Le Mans
Ferrari Could Adapt New F1 Engine for 2014 Le Mans

1 Jul 2013, 12:42 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Ferrari's new Formula One engine, which is developed to comply with new FIA regulations introduced starting with the 2014 season, could be used by the Italians in next year's 24 Hours of L...

 
Mark Webber Joins Porsche for 2014 Le Mans
Mark Webber Joins Porsche for 2014 Le Mans

27 Jun 2013, 11:20 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Australian Formula One driver Mark Webber will join the Porsche factory team for the World Endurance Championship and the 24 Hours of Le Mans campaign starting 2014, the German sportscar manufacture...

 
Porsche Completes 2014 Le Mans Driver Lineup
Porsche Completes 2014 Le Mans Driver Lineup

24 Jun 2013, 13:51 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Missing from Le Mans’ top LMP1 tier for no less than 16 years, Porsche has created a lot of buzz with their 2014 comeback. After previewing their prototype racer, the Germans have completed th...

 
See Toyota Racing Team Up-Close at Le Mans 24H
See Toyota Racing Team Up-Close at Le Mans 24H

24 Jun 2013, 09:18 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Sudden-changing weather, crashes, yellow flags, technical problem and the regrettably death of Allan Simonsen made it hard for Toyota this year. Still, the team achieved second place and almost took...

 
Aston Martin Takes 3rd Place at Le Mans, Dedicates Result to Late Allan Simonsen
Aston Martin Takes 3rd Place at Le Mans, Dedicates Result to Late Allan Simonsen

24 Jun 2013, 08:41 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Aston Martin Racing has announced its 2013 24 Hours of Le Mans results is dedicated by the team to Danish driver Allan Simonsen, who was involved in a fatal accident in the No.95 car after the start...

 
Toyota Gets Podium Finish at Le Mans
Toyota Gets Podium Finish at Le Mans

24 Jun 2013, 08:15 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / This year, Toyota Racing bravely overcame changing weather and technical problems achieving a podium finish at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. It was a hard race, which saw bad weather, skids, yellow fl...

 
Audi Win 2013 Le Mans
Audi Win 2013 Le Mans

24 Jun 2013, 07:24 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Audi has secured the overall win at the 2013 24 Hours of Le Mans on Sunday, with the No.2 Joest car driven by Allan McNish, Tom Kristensen and Loic Duval taking the 12th crown for the German automak...