Motorbase Performance duo Michael Caine and Daniele Perfetti are the 2012 British GT champions after a dramatic back-and-forth two-hour race at Donington Park. The event was won by Alvaro Parente and Zak Brown, making a guest appearance in a second United Autosports McLaren at this race, while second also went to a ‘guest’ pair – [...]
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Peter Kox and Nico Pronk, making a guest appearance in the British GT Championship finale at Donington Park driving a Reiter Engineering Lamborghini, have qualified on pole for tomorrow’s two-hour race. Danish racer Alan Simonsen sat at the top of the timesheets for much of the session, having set a 1:28.6 on his first flying [...]
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The latest issue of the magazine is now out. This issue, we chat to Patrick Long about what drives him, David Heinemeier Hansson about controversy and Jamie Campbell-Walter about driving at night, in the rain… with no wipers. Download the PDF here. Open publication – Free publishing – More alms
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In only its third FIA World Endurance Championship race, the works Toyota team defeated the might of Audi to take a memorable maiden victory at the series’ fifth round, held on the Interlagos circuit in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The Japanese squad’s driving duo of Alex Wurz and Nicolas Lapierre (Kazuki Nakajima was on Super [...]
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Fuel consumption was the theme of the day for the fourth round of the 2012 FIA World Endurance Championship, held at Silverstone in the UK. Audi’s double Le Mans-winning trio of Andre Lotterer, Marcel Fassler and Benoit Treluyer took the win after six hours of racing, but it was down to their R18 diesel hybrid’s [...]
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Audi has repeated its dominant Le Mans qualifying performance at the Silverstone round of the World Endurance Championship. Le Mans winner Benoit Treluyer put the #1 Audi R18 e-tron quattro hybrid on pole in one of the season’s most exciting qualifying sessions so far, held on a rapidly drying track in reasonably warm conditions. LM [...]
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Nurburgring winners Phoenix Racing have scored the second major 24-hour race victory of the year for the Audi R8 GT3, as well as completing a hat-trick of 24-hour triumphs for the German brand to go with the R18 TDI’s mastering of Le Mans in June. The #16 crew of Andrea Piccini, Frank Stippler and Rene [...]
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Andre Lotterer in the #6 Team Phoenix Audi R8 set the fastest lap of the race as the sun rose over the 2012 Spa 24 Hours. The all-star crew of himself, Marcel Fassler and Tom Kristensen continued to fight their way back from their big time loss early in the race. But at the head [...]
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Victory at the 2012 Spa 24 Hours looked to be slipping away from the Blancpain Series championship leaders Marc VDS Racing as the hours ticked by towards dawn. Not long after 2am, their lead car suffered its third close encounter with a backmarker so far – this time as Maxime Martin attempted to put a [...]
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There was no let-up to the incidents during the early hours of the morning at the Spa 24 Hours as the Blancpain Endurance Series’ flaghship race approached its half-distance point. A typically super-fast stint from Maxime Martin saw the #3 Marc VDS BMW take the series points on offer for leading at the six-hour mark, [...]
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