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
The British car makers don’t seem to get the idea that motor racing costs money. They’re all taking place in these sports and trying to get more customers in their showroom. Now, Aston Martin is doing well enough to afford it, Jaguar is backing off the efforts and the guys over at Lotus, starved of
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
Just as promised, the Toyota FT-86 Scion FR-S took part in the infamous Nurburgring endurance race. The proceedings took place during the VLN event and the aforementioned two door coupe did well despite not being there for a genuine will to compete. Scion actually sent the FR-S, albeit with some Gazoo Racing updates to this
With the R18 TDI winning the 2011 Le Mans 24 Hour endurance race, the Germans at Audi clocked up 10 total victories at the famed French event. A state of general pride and joy went spiraling through most of the VW family. The only possible exception being the step sister company Porsche. Porsche hold several
After the British at Mini surprised us with their contender for this years 24 Hours of Nurburgring, in the shape of the 2012 Mini Coupe racer, the ones at Aston Martin also have something to say. Their award winning Aston Martin V12 Zagato is going to be participating in the 24 hour German race and
Well, now this is what I’d call it when a company means business with it’s new coupe sports model they launched just days ago. The 2012 Mini Coupe’s pictures are still so fresh the paint may run on the fingers of those who hold them to admire the British fun machine. Despite that, there’s no
Ever since the rumors were confirmed and up to its first testing session at Sebring’s race track the 2011 Audi R18 was a spark of interest to me. Time has passed since then and we therefore got an update on the 2011 Audi R18 endurance racer especially on its looks.
Let’s get one thing clear from the outset, while Honda Performance does have something to do with this new racer, it’s not exactly their achievement. This is a Highcroft Racing ARX-01e racer that is powered by a Honda Performance engine.
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.
Mercedes-Benz’s flagship SLS AMG has been rather hesitant to enter motor sport events until the recently ended 24 hours of Dubai. This is mostly because the paint on the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 racer has barely had time to dry.
Porsche have been making the 911 since forever basically, but in racing environments it hasn’t shown it’s age. The 911 GT3 RSR variant that was based on the 997 was however limping a bit so the Germans decided to update it if it was to compete in next years’ GT Championship.
As befits a new car launch, Mercedes is putting on a show. The car going to be launched soon is the 2011 Mercedes-Benz S63 AMG and the show of put in store is more of a history lesson. The latest S class AMG will be running around in the livery used by the 300SEL 6.8
Aston Martin will be entering this year’s Le Mans 24 Hours endurance race in the prototype LMP1 class with a Lola chassis and a British V12 engine from the Aston Martin DBR9, pretty much the same car the team entered last year. This year will be different as it looks likely to be the last
With the 24 Hours of Le Mans approaching fast most of the competitors for this year’s event are ready. One of the most important players to the event is the Audi Motorsport team and this year they will be racing what they are calling the 2010 Audi R15 Plus.
Audi is planning on taking the win at this year’s 24 hours of Nurburgring and they’re getting of to a great start as the qualifying session for the event ended with four examples of the R8 LMS racer filling out the first four grid positions for this weekend’s race. This is a momentous achievement as
The 2010 edition of the 24 hours of Nurburgring will kick off this weekend and will feature a start grid with three Audi customer teams entering no less than seven Audi R8 LMS racers. The three teams in question are ABT Sportsline, Black Falcon and Phoenix Racing.
The Nurburgring Endurance Series is where the latest 911 GT3 is playing out its joker in the form of hybrid drive placed in the R Hybrid version. After having placed sixth in the debut race the factory team running a 911 GT3 R Hybrid has just scored a podium finish in this weekend race at
