Hybrid racing vehicles are incredibly successful, including all recent wins at the famous Le Mans 24 Hour annual race.
TOYOTA Racing heads into unchartered territory this weekend with its first visit to the United States, for the inaugural Six Hours of Circuit of the Americas, the fifth round of the FIA World Endurance Championship. Anthony Davidson, Sébastien Buemi and Stéphane Sarrazin drive the #8 TS030 HYBRID in Austin before joining a two-car entry at […]
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Round five of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC)at Austin in the U.S. state of Texas has a particularly high significance for Audi. In America, the brand’s sports car program began 14 years ago, Audi won the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) nine times in succession and the Sebring 12 Hours eleven times – most
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The countdown to the 2014 sports car racing season has begun. Following its successful launch in June on the company’s test track in Weissach, near Stuttgart, Germany, the Porsche LMP1 sports prototype race car – which has been completely redesigned – is working its way through a series of functional tests. In the most recent
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Following on from Audi’s hopes to break their duck at Brazil, Audi have successfully driven away strong competition from the likes of the Toyota Hybrid team and claimed the one-two finish at Sao Paulo this weekend. Remaining unbeaten in the 2013 sports car season to date, the Audi R18 e-tron quattro hybrid sports car has
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Toyota has released a new short film that charts Toyota Racing’s challenge in this year’s Le Mans 24 Hours. The movie, The Ultimate Endurance Race, is available to view on Toyota Europe’s official YouTube channel. The film-makers were given unprecedented access to the team throughout the week of pre-race preparations, qualifying and the race itself. It
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Audi is facing a big challenge at round four of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) in Brazil on September 1. Having claimed four victories to date – including the Le Mans 24 Hours – the Audi R18 e-tron quattro has remained unbeaten in the 2013 season. The squad of Head of Audi Motorsport Dr.
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Minutes ago, Honda announced their NSX Concept-GT race car for next year’s Japanese Super GT Series. Lexus have responded with an exciting announcement of their own… A stunning concept car from 2012, the Lexus LF-CC is now moving off the show stands and into the real world of gritty racing. The advanced two-door Lexus coupe,
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Hot on the heels of Honda’s NSX Ohio testing of their latest hybrid sportscar, Honda have today unveiled the NSX CONCEPT-GT, a racing machine to be entered into the GT500 class of the 2014 SUPER GT Series Round 5 ‘2013 AUTOBACS SUPER GT’ at Suzuka Circuit under the supervision and operation of GTA Co. Ltd. The
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Not really a hybrid in the traditional electric motor combined with petrol or diesel motor, but the Aston Martin Hydrogen Rapide S is a hybrid of a different sort. Combining a 6.0 litre V12 running on both hydrogen and petrol, the car is the first race car to be approved by the FIA to run
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At AutoVolt Magazine, we recently posted that the latest Honda NSX prototype would appear at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course ahead of the Honda Indy 200 and indeed it did as the below press release outlines. The Honda NSX prototype lapped the 2.4-mile Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio, just prior to the running
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