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Porsche’s Mark Webber Says Racing Career Over
On the surface or rather the track surface, Webber has no reason to quit as his lap times often and consistently are in the top ten on timing sheets. However, going out on top, and not on top of a stretcher, is a strategy that AutoInformed endorses, though we will miss watching him slice and dice through and around competitive cars. MLB’s Big Papi comes to mind where he competes in an endurance contest of another sort, one that is no less demanding on reflexes, conditioning and smarts. Continue reading
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World Endurance Championship Texas Bound. Porsche Leads
Two weeks after a Porsche 919 Hybrid won the debut race in Mexico City, the FIA World Endurance Championship heads to Austin, Texas this Saturday on the Circuit of the Americas at a combined WEC and IMSA SportsCar joint event. Continue reading
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Mexico City High – Porsche Wins WEC Race
Reigning world champions Timo Bernhard (DE), Brendon Hartley (NZ) and Mark Webber (AU) won a tightly contested six-hour race in high-altitude Mexico City. Continue reading
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Damp Qualifying at Nürburgring Has Audi on Front Row
In what can be described as damp but drying track conditions at Nürburgring today saw Audi’s Andre Lotterer and Marcel Fassler take the pole position in the #7 Audi R18 with a combined average of 1m39.444s. Continue reading
Toyota Engines Fail on Way to Sure Win at SPA. Audi Triumphs
It was evident at the opening race this year at Silverstone that Toyota was still down on power compared to the Germans. In a classic demonstration of the trade-offs in racing, both TS050 Toyota hybrids had significantly improved performance – but. Continue reading
WEC Battle of the Bulge – Japanese v Germans at Spa
“Even if the result at Silverstone was pretty good, we know we need to show more performance if we are to achieve our targets this season,” said Toshio Sato, Team President. Continue reading
Audi Withdraws Silverstone Elimination Protest. Porsche, Toyota Move Up in Endurance Racing Standings
With a curt statement Audi has withdrawn the protest it filed when after six hours of tight endurance racing in Silverstone the Audi victory was tossed because the car was illegal. Continue reading
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Porsche Wins a Disputed Silverstone. Audi Protesting
Audi Sport Team Joest has appealed against the exclusion of winners Marcel Fässler/André Lotterer/Benoît Tréluyer. Hence the result of the 2016 FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) season opener remains provisional. Continue reading
Ford GT Drivers Named for World Endurance Championship
The intention is for the two endurance racing teams to come together in June for a four-car effort at arguably the most famous endurance race in the world, the Le Mans 24 Hours, fifty years after Ford’s historic 1-2-3 finish in France. Continue reading
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Porsche Dominates Endurance Racing During 2015
Porsche had a strong season with the overall victory at the 24 Hours in Le Mans, the Manufacturers’ World Championship earned at the penultimate round in Shanghai, the drivers’ World Championship in Bahrain. Continue reading
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Porsche 919 Hybrids One Two at Nürburgring. Toyota Trounced
Over the weekend, 62,000 people saw a repeat of Porsche’s one-two result at Le Mans in 2015, the third major success for the young team. For ex Formula One driver Mark Webber, it is the first WEC race win. Porsche has extended its lead in the manufacturers’ world championship 33 points ahead of Audi and 95 in front of defending champion Toyota. Nissan has withdrawn entirely after laughable efforts. Continue reading
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Toyota Defending Endurance Title at Nürburgring
This weekend’s race marks a return to race action for the Toyota TS040 Hybrids after a 10-week break since the Le Mans 24 Hours, when Toyota finished sixth and eighth, after a thorough and embarrassing thrashing from Porsche and Audi in France. Continue reading
Volkswagen Sweeps Rally Germany
Volkswagen dominated the Rally Germany. Sébastien Ogier/Julien Ingrassia’s (F/F) are the first duo to win the rally in a German car in the current WRC era. The Wolfsburg-based manufacturer – put in business by the allies after WW2 – also finished second and third with Jari-Matti Latvala/Miikka Anttila (FIN/FIN) and Andreas Mikkelsen/Ola Fløene (N/N). Continue reading
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Patrick Dempsey With Porsche for World Endurance Racing
Patrick Dempsey will drive a Porsche 911 RSR in the Sports Car World Endurance Championship., aka, WEC, including the world Le Mans 24-hour race in 2015. Continue reading
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Audi to Run Three R18 e-tron quattro Cars at Le Mans
Le Mans organizer ACO has accepted Audi’s three entries for the Le Mans 24 Hours. Lucas di Grassi (BR) together with last year’s winners Loïc Duval (F) and Tom Kristensen (DK) will compete in car number 1 against a field that will present formidable competition from Toyota and Porsche among others. Continue reading
