Nissan DeltaWing With DIG-T Engine for Le Mans · Photo Gallery
13 Mar 2012, 14:41 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Nissan wants to rewrite the book with a car that looks better suited for the land speed record than the Le Mans 24 hour endurance race it’s going to undertake. Yet here it is, an ‘experi...
Morgan LMP2 Car Signals Le Mans Return
12 Mar 2012, 15:03 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Morgan Motor Company and OAK Racing have teamed up for this year’s endurance racing season. This LMP2 prototype will mark the British firm’s return to Le Mans-style racing. By the loo...
Audi Readies Le Mans Winning R18 TDI for Sebring
9 Mar 2012, 14:48 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / At the 12-hour race at Sebring, Florida, Audi Motorsport will rely on the power of the Le Mans winning Audi R18 TDI modified as the car has been modified for the season opening of the new FIA World ...
Aston Martin Returning to Le Mans and Endurance Racing
25 Feb 2012, 10:43 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / This year marks the return of Aston Martin Racing to to international GT motorsport in the FIA World Endurance Championship. This Golf-livered racing V8 Vantage will hit the track in the e GTE Pro c...
Toyota Entering TS030 Hybrid in FIA World Endurance Championship
3 Feb 2012, 13:04 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Toyota is ready to prove the might of its hybrid tech in the endurance scene, as the TS030 Hybrid prototype race car has been entered in the FIA World Endurance Championship. The race team was origi...
Toyota Unveils TS030 HYBRID Le Mans Racer
25 Jan 2012, 10:32 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Toyota has unveiled a brand new prototype race car, the TS030 that will compete in the LMP1 Le Mans class. This was created by Toyota Motorsport GmbH and comes with a carbon fiber chassis. But th...
Peugeot Withdraws from Le Mans Endurance Racing
19 Jan 2012, 12:25 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The European economic crisis has stared to bite down hard on the automakers, and a drastic budget cut has been announced by PSA Peugeot Citroen. Effective immediately, Peugeot’s remarkable car...
Toyota Making Le Mans Return in 2012 with Hybrid LMP1 Prototype
14 Oct 2011, 14:39 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Toyota today announced that it will come to next year’s Le Mans race with a new petrol-hybrid racer. In fact, the automotive producer will compete in the 2012 FIA World Endurance Championship....
Porsche Talks about Hybrid 911 Road Car
26 Sep 2011, 12:17 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Porsche brags that it is the raciest automotive producers of all, with the company doing its best to translate the motorsport technology into its road cars. The carmaker is now giving us a video in ...
Lola EX265 Le Mans Prototype Marks MG's Return to Motorsport
3 Aug 2011, 09:46 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / MG is like a little re-born chick trying to get its foot in the door of the global automotive market. While in the old days the company was know for making exciting single seater rockets, things gra...
Porsche Plans Le Mans Return in 2014
1 Jul 2011, 07:47 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / German automaker Porsche is seeking to rule the Le Mans series once again, after it has managed to gather 16 overall victories in the renowned competition so far. The company revealed today it is wo...
Chrysler to Consider Bringing Viper Back to Le Mans
30 Jun 2011, 14:46 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / After decades of rift between the FIA (which governs such premier racing series as F1, the WRC and the WTCC) and the ACO (which organizes Le Mans and its related series), the two have gotten togethe...
Audi Has Two New R18 TDIs Ready for Imola
24 Jun 2011, 14:29 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Money seems to be no object for Audi, and neither is time, because the cars that were so badly damaged at Le Mans have been replaced by two new ones, ready for their debut at the fourth round of the...
GreenGT LMP H2 Unveiled, Expected to Run at 2012 Le Mans
14 Jun 2011, 11:07 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Is it just us or are electric cars starting to pop up more and more in the racing world? In Nissan’s case, we can understand that the company wants to prove that the LEAF is just as good as an...
Female Race Engineer Wins Le Mans With Audi R18 TDI
13 Jun 2011, 12:32 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Of the three turbo diesel-engined R18 TDI sportscars that Audi entered this year’s Le Mans 24 Hours race, one earned Audi the 10th victory in the race. That particular car was engineered by Le...
Audi R8 GT Spyder Makes World Debut at Le Mans
13 Jun 2011, 11:04 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / It wasn’t just the feather-light R18 prototype racers that were the stars of this weekend’s 24 Hours at Le Mans, as Audi chose the famous France race the official stage for the world deb...
BMW Claims Pole in GTE Class at Le Mans
10 Jun 2011, 11:26 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / BMW Motorsport secured excellent grid positions for the 24-hour race in Le Mans, as the number 55 M3 GT and Brazilian driver Augusto Farfus set the fastest time in the LM GTE class, recording a 3:57...
Chevy Visual Treat Coming for Le Mans Fans
7 Jun 2011, 04:48 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A race that is hugely popular among car manufacturers and professional drivers, the Le Mans 24 hours has failed, until now, to draw as much attention as other similar, but by far shorter racing seri...
Patrick Dempsey and Johnny Herbert to Drive Mazda 787B at Le Mans
5 Jun 2011, 16:03 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Some two weeks ago, we were reporting on the Le Mans winning Mazda 787B, which has been restored to demonstrate on the Circuit de la Sarthe in Le Mans, France on June 11, before the 2011 race begins...
Nissan Leaf NISMO RC to Flex Its Muscles at Le Mans
3 Jun 2011, 08:15 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In what is hoped to be the first in a series of guest-star appearances at various racing events across the globe, the souped up version of the electric Nissan Leaf, the NISMO RC, will make its first...