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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Toyota had retired long ago, but Audi still threatened to be its own worst enemy in the final hours of the 2012 Le Mans 24 Hours. The #1 R18 TDI driven by last year’s winners Andre Lotterer, Benoit Treluyer and Marcel Fassler crossed the line serenely a lap ahead of its closest challenger, but the [...]
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They won the qualifying race at Zolder, but now Vita4One team boss Michael Bartels and his star driver Yelmer Buurman have tasted championship race success, too. Extremely fast pit work from the BMW team’s mechanics allowed them to beat the pace-setting McLaren and claim the GT1 World Championship points lead with an important win at [...]
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Filip Salaquarda and Toni Vilander produced an impressive performance in mixed conditions to give their AF Corse Ferrari team its first victory in the GT1 World Championship at the Slovakiaring today. Albert von Thurn und Taxis and Tomas Enge came home second, after a remarkable fighting drive by the latter driver in increasingly wet conditions.
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After two difficult rounds so far this year, Fred Makowiecki and Stef Dusseldorp finally celebrated a double victory in the GT1 World Championship as the series visited Navarra in Spain. These are the first wins of the season for the 2011 GT1 team champions HEXIS and the first-ever wins in international competition for the new [...]
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They qualified third, dropped to seventh on the first lap, but came back to win: Max Nilsson and Mika Vahamaki’s progress in the first of today’s two GT3 European Championship races in Navarra tells you all you need to know about how unpredictable and eventful it was. Race two was a far more straightforward affair, [...]
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BMW had the pace and Mercedes looked potent at times, too, but it was Audi that vanquished the oppostion at the 2012 Nurburgring 24 Hours with a dominant 1-2 finish courtesy of customer squads Team Phoenix and Mamerow Racing. Non-German marques didn’t get a look in at any point during this fascinating race, which included [...]
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Porsche set the pace but it was a Ferrari that crossed the line first in Saturday morning’s British GT race at the Nurburgring, the second of the weekend. Matt Griffin started the Mtech Racing Ferrari 458 from fifth on the grid, then lost a place at the start. He was soon to make amends, though, [...]
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Klaus Graf and Lucas Luhr dominated the Six Hours of Laguna Seca, eventually winning by a margin of three laps, not nearly indicative of their complete authority over the whole race, as a safety car closed up the field with 15 minutes to go.
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Audi debutante Marc Gene, along with 2012 newcomer Loic Duval and team stalwart Romain Dumas drove the #3 R18 Ultra TDI to victory in the second round of the World Endurance Championship at Spa-Francorchamps. Much of the attention at the weekend was focused on the debut of the new hybrid R18 e-tron quattro, but the [...]
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