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Cars will trickle down to other series in coming years

  Porsche debuted its 2013-spec 911 GT3 Cup, the first to be based on the 991 chassis, during its Night of Champions celebration at its motorsports headquarters in Weissach. In addition to showing next year's cup car, it revealed that...

Will be marketed to gentlemen drivers

Bentley is taking a page out of corporate sibling Lamborghini's plan and is planning to offer the 2014 Continental GT3 to gentlemen drivers in a one-make racing series similar to Lamborghini's Super Trofeo series.   Bentley says t...

Video Shows GT3 Racing Around Porsche Test Track

Porsche has just added a video to Youtube showing the testing of the new 991-chassis 911 GT3 Cup car. Just to be clear, this is not the 911 GTE that Porsche announced last week that wil race in the 24 Hours of Le Mans. However, this is the first h...

Believes Vettel is still improving as a driver

Red Bull F1 Boss Christian Horner believes that Sebastian Vettel is still improving as a driver. Vettel is the youngest triple world champion ever and only the third driver to take three World Championships in a row.   "As a driver h...

Bernie Ecclestone wants to use the new gap for the Turkish Grand Prix

The FIA has decided to move the German Grand Prix up one week to July 7 in order to make room for another European race in the 2013 Formula 1 season. Bernie Ecclestone has said that he is in negotiations to add the Turkish Grand Prix to the calend...

Bernie Ecclestone wants to use the new gap for the Turkish Grand Prix

The FIA has decided to move the German Grand Prix up one week to July 7 in order to make room for another European race in the 2013 Formula 1 season. Bernie Ecclestone has said that he is in negotiations to add the Turkish Grand Prix to the calend...

New livery is gold, orange and white

The WRC season begins in 42 days, and the Citroën WRC team will switching to a gold, orange and white livery next season for its three driver teams Mikko Hirvonen/Jarmo Lehtinen, Dani Sordo/Carlos del Barrio and Sebastien Loeb/Daniel Ele...

Wishes tires had a longer window of peak performance

If Jenson Button could make one improvement in Formula 1 for the 2013 season it would be Pirelli tires with longer peak performance. Unfortunately, the Brit believes that Pirelli and FIA are pushing for the exact opposite. "As a lot of te...

Believes he has a better rapport with the team

Kimi Raikkonen did grab many headlines this season except when he told his team that he knew what he was doing over the radio, but for a guy who had not been in Formula 1 for two seasons, he managed to finish third in the World Drivers' Champi...

Eight other cities nearly confirmed

The forthcoming Formula E series chose a difficult route into international racing. It could have hooked onto an existing racing series as a support event and had guaranteed tracks and crowds, but it decided that it would be best to do things alon...