Hybrid racing vehicles are incredibly successful, including all recent wins at the famous Le Mans 24 Hour annual race.
Porsche has achieved its 17th overall Le Mans victory at the 83rd running of the famous 24-Hour race in a perfect way with a one-two finish. Drivers Earl Bamber (NZ), Nico Hülkenberg (GER) and Nick Tandy (GB) won the coveted trophy in their innovative Porsche 919 Hybrid exactly 45 years after Porsche’s first overall win …
Nissan’s crazy, brave and pioneering Le Mans racer is almost ready for its first competitive outing on the race track, in this year’s Le Mans 24 Hours (13-14 June). Ahead of the historic event, Nissan have finally unveiled the true specification of the car and it is pretty exciting stuff! The monstrously powerful car is …
At the Paul Ricard Circuit in France, Porsche presented the second generation of its Le Mans Prototype 919 Hybrid race car as a technical evolution in a three-colour concept. Porsche also confirmed it will switch to the highest of the four energy categories in the LMP1 class. The performance of the energy recovery system was …
Toyota Racing are ready to launch the defence of their two world titles in the 2015 FIA World Endurance Championship. Last year Toyota became the first Japanese company to claim the WEC manufacturer’s championship in a very successful season that also saw its drivers Anthony Davidson and Sébastien Buemi share the drivers’ title. In an …
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A twofold quantity of hybrid energy, fundamentally revised aerodynamics, the next step in lightweight design and a lot of detailed work characterise the fifth generation of the Audi R18. Jörg Zander, Audi Sport’s new Head of Engineering said, “The possibilities of the revolutionary regulations that have been in effect for LMP sports cars since 2014 …
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GP3 race winner Jann Mardenborough (GB) was revealed as one of the drivers of Nissan’s innovative LM P1 racing car at the Chicago Auto Show today. At the same time in Yokohama, Japan, it was announced that fellow GT Academy winner Lucas Ordóñez (ESP) had also been selected to race the Nissan GT-R LM NISMO …
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Nissan has revealed its Le Mans challenger – the Nissan GT-R LM NISMO – during the Super Bowl XLIX commercial break. The Japanese manufacturer has interpreted the sport’s technical regulations in an innovative way, producing a front-engined, front wheel drive car that is powered by a V6 3-litre twin turbo petrol engine and a kinetic …
Twenty years ago, the then soon-to-be-launched McLaren F1 GTR began testing ahead of an assault on the 1995 GT season. The track derivative, as the road-going version had done, rewrote the rule book and then claimed victories and titles across the globe in the years that followed, securing a place in motorsport folklore. Two decades …
Mike Conway, a recent signing of Formula E team Dragon Racing, has now been promoted within Toyota Racing to team driver, from test and reserve driver. Mike will be stepping in to replace Kazuki Nakajima who has a conflict of duties since he is scheduled to race in the Super Formula in Japan. This year …
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Three-digit records are nothing new at the Nürburgring, the go-to location when car manufacturers want to prove the pace of their latest models, but until now, these feats have always been about miles per hour, not miles per gallon. Toyota turned tradition on its head when it took its Prius Plug-in hybrid to the track, …
