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 Le-Mans

Nissan to build electric Le Mans car

February 26, 2013

Nissan will contest the Le Mans 24 Hours in 2014 with an all-electric contender that will take the "Garage 56" entry reserved for an experimental car.
 

VIDEO: Revised Toyota TS030 test

February 22, 2013

Driver interviews and track test footage of the substantially revised Toyota TS030 Hybrid Le Mans racer.
 

New LMP1 rules package "close"

July 26, 2012

Organizers of the World Endurance Championship say they are close to finalizing the 2014 LMP1 regulations after a meeting of the FIA Endurance Commission in Paris last week.
 

Toyota buoyed by Le Mans pace

June 21, 2012

Toyota's Le Mans 24 Hours performance proved that it has the pace to fight with Audi in the World Endurance Championship, according to its racing team president Yoshiaki Kinoshita.
 

INSIGHT: Learning and exploring on a maiden Le Mans voyage

Melissa Eickhoff June 20, 2012

RACER guest contributor Melissa Eickhoff shares the experience of learning, exploring, and taking in all Le Mans has to offer over 24 hours.
 

Kristensen: 2014 rules will improve LMP1

June 19, 2012

Eight-time Le Mans 24 Hours winner Tom Kristensen believes the event's 2014 LMP1 rules package will both make sports car racing more relevant to fans and ensure parity between different technologies.
 

BLOG: Le Mans, up close and personal

June 18, 2012

Jeremy Shaw, who covered the 24 Hours for Radio Le Mans and Eurosport TV, reflects on this year's most interesting cars at the French endurance classic.
 

Audi: Toyota has hybrid rule edge

June 18, 2012

Audi's two-time Le Mans 24 Hours winner Benoit Treluyer believes that the equivalency formula between front-wheel and rear-wheel hybrid systems has given Toyota an advantage and that the rules should be changed.
 

Buemi: Toyota could have fought on

June 18, 2012

Toyota's Sebastien Buemi believes that the TS030 Hybrids were in a position to continue their intense assault on Audi for the lead of Le Mans, even though one of the cars had only turned a wheel for the first time the day before the pre-race test.
 

Davidson hoping for swift recovery

June 17, 2012

Anthony Davidson is hoping that he can recover sooner than the three months doctors have told him it will take to heal the breaks to his T11 and T12 vertebrae sustained in his massive accident in the Le Mans 24 Hours.
 

Contact forces DeltaWing retirement

June 16, 2012

The Nissan DeltaWing retired from the Le Mans 24 Hours after its contact with the No. 7 Toyota in the seventh hour of the race.
 

H3: Treluyer leads, #2 Audi has issue

June 16, 2012

Benoit Treluyer took over from Andre Lotterer and kept the #1 Audi R18 e-tron quattro at the head of the 2012 Le Mans 24 Hours after three hours.
 

VIDEO: Audi Sport engineer Leena Gade

June 16, 2012

Female race engineers may still be comparatively rare, but in this official Audi video, learn how Leena Gade plays a key role in the team's Le Mans 24 Hours success.
 

Toyota: Qualifying shows diesel's edge

June 15, 2012

Toyota technical director Pascal Vasselon says that more work needs to be done on the balance of performance between gasoline and diesel-engined LMP1s after Anthony Davidson qualified the fastest TS030 Hybrid third at Le Mans.
 

DeltaWing team perseveres through qualifying issues at Le Mans

June 15, 2012

After Wednesday night's delays, the Nissan DeltaWing focuses on race setup rather than qualifying pace.
 

Corvette: AF Corse can still win

June 15, 2012

Corvette's Richard Westbrook and Oliver Gavin believe the #51 AF Corse Ferrari is still a major threat in the GTE Pro class at this year's Le Mans 24 Hours despite the car missing most of qualifying and having to start from the back of the field.
 

Henzler doubts Porsche chances

June 15, 2012

Wolf Henzler has played down the chances of winning the GTE Pro class after saying his Felbermayr-Proton Porsche's qualifying deficit is too much.
 

Capello relaxed about his final Le Mans

June 15, 2012

Dindo Capello reckons it will be the week after Le Mans before the fact that he has made his final appearance in the legendary race really hits him.
 

Aston has "no excuses" in GTE battle

June 15, 2012

Prodrive chief executive David Richards says there will be no excuse for Aston Martin not to secure a class podium at Le Mans.
 

Pescarolo sorry over Boullion's exit

June 15, 2012

Henri Pescarolo says he is disappointed by Jean-Christophe Boullion's withdrawal from this year's Le Mans 24 Hours due to injury, but has backed his No. 16 squad to cope in the Frenchman's absence.
 

Makowiecki: Anyone can win GTE Pro

June 15, 2012

Le Mans 24 Hours GTE Pro class polesitter Frederic Makowiecki believes the division is wide open, and that any of the nine entrants can win.
 

OAK: 2014 rules tough for privateers

June 15, 2012

Leading sports car privateer OAK Racing was unimpressed by the 2014 LMP1 rules package announced by the Automobile Club de l'Ouest and the FIA on Thursday.
 

Lotterer claims historic Le Mans pole

June 14, 2012

Last year's Le Mans 24 Hours winner Andre Lotterer made Le Mans history on Thursday night when he secured the first pole position for a hybrid car on the 80th running of the race at La Sarthe.
 

Duval puts Audi Ultra on provisional pole at Le Mans

June 14, 2012

Loic Duval put the No. 3 Audi R18 Ultra on provisional pole for the 80th running of the Le Mans 24 Hours with a spectacular lap of 3m24.078s.
 

E-tron drivers say fuel will be critical

June 14, 2012

Marcel Fassler and Benoit Treluyer say that the Audi e-tron is faster and more flexible than the Ultra, but that the race performance will be heavily influenced by the fuel consumption of the hybrid.
 

Lotterer expects to go quicker today

June 14, 2012

Le Mans provisional polesitter Andre Lotterer expects to beat his 3m25.453s Wednesday benchmark in Thursday's final qualifying sessions
 

Brundle soon "back in the groove"

June 14, 2012

Martin Brundle says he feels fully up to speed after the first day's practice for the 2012 Le Mans 24 Hours with the Greaves Motorsport squad.
 

Buemi: No doubts about night pace

June 14, 2012

Le Mans rookie Sebastien Buemi is confident he can get straight on the pace in night conditions despite his current lack of mileage.
 

AF team plays down Fisichella's crash

June 14, 2012

AF Corse team owner Amato Ferrari believes that its lead Ferrari 458 can still win the GTE Pro category despite having to build a car up around a new chassis after Giancarlo Fisichella crashed at the Porsche Curves during practice on Wednesday.
 

ACO confirms 2014 LMP1 regulations

June 14, 2012

The Automobile Club de l'Ouest and FIA have confirmed full details of the 2014 LMP1 regulations, which will be based on a variable fuel allocation according to cars' energy recovery systems.
 

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