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Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Porsche, SEAT, SKODA & Volkswagen
Both the Nismo ELMS Spotter Guide and Fourtitude DTM Spotter Guide are live and ready for this weekends racing. The Nismo ELMS Spotter Guide for Imola is now online and up to date as of now. 28 entries including new liveries in P2 and additional GTC Cars. Imola will be a 3 hour race. Continue reading ‘Nismo ELMS Spotter Guide and Fourtitude DTM Spotter Guide are live’
Laurens Vanthoor, Anthony Kumpen, Edward Sandstrom and Marco Bonanomi won in the Audi R8 LMS ultra by five laps. The Audi factory has won at Le Mans, the Nurburgring and Spa this year. With the Belgium private team’s victory a fourth 24-hour victory is added to the brand’s endurance record this year. For the Belgian Anthony Kumpen it was his sixth overall victory in this event. Continue reading ‘Belgian Audi Club Team WRT wins 2012 24H of Zolder’
We’ve partnered up with good friends Rusty and Joe Rae from Tertre Rouge Times to bring you this gallery featuring the beautiful Audi R18 e-tron quattro, Audi R18 ultra and the Porsche 911 GT3 RSR’s from the 2012 24 Hours of Le Mans. Enjoy! Continue reading ‘Gallery: 2012 24 Hours of Le Mans’
Earlier this week, Flying Lizard Motorsports announced that Patrick Pilet would fill in for Darren Law. With Law out due to scheduling conflicts, Pilet would share the no79 Porsche 911 GT3 RSR with Seth Neiman and Atlanta’s Spencer Pumpelly.
Pilet rose to the occasion and during todays first qualifying session, put the Porsche on top of the GTE-Am charts with a very fast 3:57.694. The time also put him into 6th in the complete GTE field. Continue reading ‘Solid qualifying session from Porsche teams at Le Mans 24 Hour’
The Simraceway 24 Hour Le Mans Spotter Guide is now available to download.
It’s that time of year where all motorsports fans will have their eye on one race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans. If, for some reason, you have been out of the loop you will see some changes at the front. Peugeot is out this year having retired their motorsport program. That spot has been filled by Toyota Racing. Both Audi and Toyota will bring hybrid system’s to France. Continue reading ‘Simraceway 2012 24 Hours of Le Mans Spotter Guide’
With the 2011 racing season over Porsche has not been standing still. This year we saw the Porsche’s struggle a bit across the different series but in the end had a decent showing. However, when we asked our friend Nick Fousekis of Falken Tire Motorsports about the new RSR, he just gave us a big grin. The 2012 911 GT3 RSR bring some new changes conforming to the new A.C.O GTE regulations. The overall body sees growth in the width at the same time strong aero design changes. Power will come in at 460hp driven by a six-speed gearbox via paddles. Continue reading ‘The 2012 Porsche 911 GT3 RSR’
A dramatic pit stop overshadowed the penultimate race at Zolder Belcar. When entering pit box, the Ferrari of Hans Thiers brakes and hits three people with one of Dutch’s own team and a bystander from Valkenswaard. In the “Algemeen Dagblad” said Frank Thiers said: “Hans drove 60 according to the rules. Everything went normally, but when he arrived at his team-box there was a malfunction with the brakes. The car shot up, got our full team boss Massimo Bottiglieri and drove into a Dutch man. Massimo has only a broken wrist, but the Dutch gentleman was not ok. We pray for him that he comes through. We heard that he was happy his son not blame us. It was a technical defect. Due to the extremely hot weather was apparently the brake fluid to boil. Gallery after the jump! Continue reading ‘Pit stop drama overshadows Belgian Masters Belcar Race at Zolder’
This year, there were 31 participants in the 33rd edition of the 24H of Zolder. The high temperatures in the early stages caused a lot of attrition. Bert Longin, Enzo Ide, Francois Verbist, Xavier Maassen and the W Racing Team would go on to win the 2011 24 Hours of Zolder. Continue reading ‘W Racing Team wins 2011 24 Hours of Zolder’
