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The team is hoping to set a new course record on Sunday

Sebastien Loeb qualified his Peugeot 208 T16 Pikes Peak at the top of the pack for the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. Over two runs, Loeb was fastest in both. “It’s not like a race: qualifying isn’t really a crucial par...

The contract runs several years

After months of rumor, Mark Webber and Porsche have announced that the Red Bull Formula 1 driver will leave the sport next season to join Porsche's World Endurance Championship effort. Neither side announced the duration of the contract beyond...

No teams have confirmed using the car yet

The inaugural Formula E season will begin in 2014, and it now appears that there will be more than one car supplier. Bluebird, a British company best known for building land speed record cars and electric vehicles, says that it will have a car rea...

It will use carbon fiber tubes

Formula 1 teams will use a new carbon fiber tube side impact system beginning in 2014. The new system is safer in impacts at oblique angles than the current side impact protection. The tubes crush progressively and can absorb 40kJ of energy even i...

It will be a two-car team with Loeb driving one of them

Citroën has announced that it is entering the WTCC in 2014 with Sebatien Loeb driving one of the team's cars. The car is still in development and will begin testing later this year.  Citroën says that it was drawn to WTCC be...

Toyota finishes second in very wet race

The 2013 24 Hours of Le Mans was marred by tragedy just minutes into the race when Danish driver Allan Simonsen in the #95 GTE-AM Aston Martin was killed in a single-car incident when he spun into the barriers. But the race went on, and Audi #2 dr...

Oh, and NASCAR and WRC too

This weekend is the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and that is all you really need to know. Audi's Loïc Duval set a blazing qualifying time on Thursday night that because of a wet track on Friday was more than enough to give him the pole position f...

Mercedes and Pirelli both reprimanded

The FIA International Tribunal has reprimanded Mercedes and Pirelli for their in-season tire test between the Spanish Grand Prix and Monaco Grand Prix. Mercedes has also been banned from taking part in the 2013 young driver test.  The tri...

The new engine is more powerful and more efficient with more energy recovery.

Renault is the first engine supplier to take the wraps off its 2014 1.6-liter V6 turbocharged Formula 1 engine. Despite the lower displacement and lower redline, Renault says that the new engines are even more powerful than the V8 that it replaces...

It is being specced against LMP2 cars

Nissan has revealed its ZEOD RC, which stands for Zero Emission On Demand Racing Car, that will take the experimental Garage 56 spot in the 2014 24 Hours of Le Mans. The design comes from Ben Bowlby, the man behind the Deltawing, and in many ways ...