Le Mans

Its factory driving team for 2014 has over 20 members

Porsche’s 2014 LMP1 class racer has been named the 919 Hybrid to give it a spiritual connection to the famous 917 racecar and Porsche’s latest 918 Hybrid supercar. Porsche is still keeping quiet about technical details about the 91...

Chevy promises the closet ties between Z06 and racecar ever.

The North American International Auto Show is going to be a big show for Corvettes. Not only will the C7 Corvette Z06 be unveiled, but the Chevrolet C7.R will also get its world debut at the show in January and make its racing debut at the Rolex 2...

While it has the same name, there are multiple changes to the car

A day after Porsche revealed that its 2014 LMP1 racer would use a four-cylinder engine with two energy recuperation systems, Audi is letting the details slip on its 2014 R18 E-Tron Quattro. While the name is unchanged, the car is getting many upda...

The car uses a four-cylinder engine with two energy recuperation systems

Mark Webber has made is debut for Porsche while testing its 2014 World Endurance Championship LMP1 racer at the Algarve circuit in Portugal. Porsche has finally revealed that its LMP1 car will use a direct-injected four-cylinder engine with tw...

It will be testing this week at Sebrig

has unveiled its 2014 World Endurance Championship racer, and despite the major change in rules, the car does not look that much different on the outside and keeps the same R18 E-Tron Quattro moniker.  The 2014 E-Tron Quattro is still ve...

The current rules allow the engines with little modification

Antonello Coletta, Ferrari’s head of non-F1 motorsport, says that Ferrari is investigating entering the World Endurance Championship in the LMP1 class using a version of its 2014 Formula 1 turbocharged engine. He is clear that Ferrari’...

It claim that they own the rights to that design

When Nissan announced the ZEOD RC racecar and the BladeGlider concept at the Tokyo Motor Show, their relationship to the Deltawing program was unambiguous. After all, Ben Bowlby who designed the Deltawing was helming the ZEOD RC project, and the c...

It is the first time that the team will not use Porsches

Next year is bringing huge changes to the United States sports car racing landscape in 2014. The American Le Mans Series and Grand-Am Rolex Sport Car Series are merging into the Tudor United Sports Car Championship. ALMS stalwarts Flying Lizard Mo...

The tires are half the width of normal front tires but have to perform as well

Nissan is deep in development of its ZEOD RC experimental race car for the 2014 24 Hours of Le Mans. It is collaborating with Michelin to create the tires specifically for the car. The tires on the ZEOD RC are 10cm wide, half as wide as the fr...

Rain prevented the race from ever really starting

The Six Hours of Fuji on October 20 was nothing short of a fiasco. There was good news for both Toyota and Audi. Toyota scored its first win of the season, and Audi scored enough points to guarantee the manufacturers’ championship with two r...