After 16 years of waiting outside the pitch, the Porsche is ready to tackle the Le Mans again with its latest creation, which is the 911 S Martini Racing Edition. The fresh out of the box Porsche 911 Martini Racing Edition is prepared for Le Mans, coming available in two finishes, white and the black.
Years ago, our parents and grandparents were witnessing the first edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, which is the oldest active sports car race in endurance racing in the whole world! Held every single year since 1923, in 2013 the race celebrates 90 years of history and Bentley Mulsanne is looking to celebrate
Usually when a manufacturer comes to the SEMA show, it comes up with a familiar model that gets some unfamiliar tune-ups and then be done. So why would Mazda come up with something called a concept? No idea, but that’s what the Mazda MX-5 Super25 is supposed to be. What it appears to be however
Ever since its introduction two things about the Bentley Continental GT have stood out. The first was the luxurious feel and the second was the immense bulk. Sure, there are ideas of it being fast and it having a turbocharger setup that would break rolling roads but its weight would never be something to get
Forget spoilers, the race has been over for several hours now and I’m fairly confident that nobody will be watching the whole thing once again on TiVo. The news is simple, the Audi R18 e-tron has won this weekend’s immensely important endurance race at the Le Mans 24 hour event. Actually, the whole event was
The DeltaWing racer is an interesting concept for a motor sport presence except for a while now it’s been regarded as a left field idea and few were interested. Things have changed today as Nissan have announced that they will be backing this new racing car in an effort that will ultimately bring them to
Porsche officially announced that the new 911 GT3 RSR is ready for the Twelve Hours of Sebring competition. To be more exact, the German company unveiled the model at the tests that preceded the race. “The new Porsche 911 GT3 RSR race cars, still in plain white livery as they arrived from the factory in
In our modern times, I think there’s plenty of stuff that died out about the motor industry and the personality of the car makers and the people who run them. At Lotus however we just keep finding that genuine example of British pluckiness. They just don’t want to let go of their ambitions or, worse
With the 24 hours of Le Mans creeping up on us, manufacturers are starting to make claims about their cars and even unveil them. In the ambitious return segment for this year we find Toyota with their recently spotted 2012 Le Mans racer. Back then, a couple of photos were the only available, now we
Since the registering time frame for Le Mans is drawing to a close, more and more action on this matter is turning up on the matter. After Peugeot’s surprise announcement about cancelling off their Le Mans 24 Hour project, the “slot” will be filled in by Toyota who’ve entered the final stages of development on
In what can only be described as a surprise and a bit of a shock for the world of motorsport fans, the French at Peugeot have announced something sad today. Peugeot is closing its Le Mand 24 Hour project and all endurance racing efforts it entices. The move is effective immediately. Such a 180 decision
It is the afternoon of June the 12th. This means that just hours ago, the biggest race in the endurance calendar just ended. I’m talking, of course, about the Le Mans 24 Hour endurance race and the 2011 edition was one as eventful as the best of them. What isn’t necessarily eventful is how Audi’s
Honda just announced that they plan to make a special appearance at the famous Le Mans race, with a CR-Z. This particular Honda CR-Z was “adopted” by the very capable Honda Performance Development team and managed to get itself a different sort of life from the standard version. The race prepared Honda Performance Development CR-Z
At a time when most Japanese manufacturers are winding down their motorsports programs, Nissan decided to spruce up their own and make a return to endurance racing, particularly at Le Mans. While nothing focusing on the famous French 24 hour race has been said, Nissan is telling us they are going to enter the LMP2
It seems that the rumors regarding a successor to the mighty Ford GT are multiplying by the month and also gaining more bulk. After we first heard about a simple possibility of the Ford flagship actually making a comeback, even in hybrid form, we now have reason to believe there’s more than just rumor in
We’ve spoken about Audi’s new R18 endurance racer before but now we’ve gotten word about this beast has gotten down to the nitty grity. In its first assignment, Audi did preliminary testing on the R18 endurance racer at the very famous track at Sebring.
The Le Mans series is one of the best efforts in motorsport any automotive company can undertake. Because of the endurance situations engineering is stressed to the maximum but because of the racing environment performance is equally as important.
The French over at Peugeot are definitely aiming to win at Le Mans whatever it means. After frankly trailing at the back of Audi’s endurance racing diesels’ at Le Mans they are seriously hungry for wins. I can’t blame them, they’ve taken quite a bit of beating from the Audi R8 TDI, the Audi R10
Spyker, the Dutch supercar manufacturer that came back from the dead not that long ago seems to be pretty pleased about itself. The little manufacturer made its point and proved that they are more than small when they acquired Swedish car maker Saab from the Americans at GM who were in troubled times.
Porsche celebrates the first success in the Le Mans race with a special edition of… a watch! By time we saw that Porsche Design revealed more special editions of exclusive watches, such as P6780 Diver Watch. The full official name of this celebrating watch is P’6612 Dashboard Le Mans 1970. The Porsche watch brings some
