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Aston Martin Vantage GTE Brings Marque's Return to WEC

Aston Martin Vantage GTE Brings Marque's Return to WEC

Aston Martin has developed the Vantage GT2 into the Vantage GTE and will field a factory-backed team at all eight rounds of the World Endurance Championship this season. It will also have a second factory car at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.  ...
27.02.2012 | 1899 views | 0 comments
FIA Eliminating Loophole in ECU Rule to Finally Get Rid of Blown Exhausts

FIA Eliminating Loophole in ECU Rule to Finally Get Rid of Blown Exhausts

The FIA is strengthening the ECU rules in Formula 1 to definitively get rid of blown exhausts.  The FIA wants to totally remove exhaust blown aerodynamics from Formula 1. It changed the rules earlier in the year to mandate a certain, gene...
24.02.2012 | 871 views | 0 comments
Williams Team Fastest in Testing; Lotus Applies for Extra Testing Day

Williams Team Fastest in Testing; Lotus Applies for Extra Testing Day

Williams driver Pastor Maldonado set the fastest time on the third day of Formula One testing on February 23. Maldonado's pace was even quicker than Nico Hulkenberg yesterday by about 0.2 of a second. Most of the cars did long stints on the tr...
23.02.2012 | 1677 views | 0 comments
Alain Prost Becomes Ranult Brand Ambassador

Alain Prost Becomes Ranult Brand Ambassador

Ex-Formula 1 World Champion Alain Prost will become a brand ambassador for Renault. Prost raced for Renault from 1981 to 1983 and managed a second place finish in the Drivers' Championship in 1983. Prost drove for Renault again in 1993 and too...
23.02.2012 | 2624 views | 2 comments
Porsche Narrows Down to 6 Finalists for Junior Program

Porsche Narrows Down to 6 Finalists for Junior Program

Porsche has narrowed down its search for a new, young driver to six candidates. The final test was at Vallelunga in Italy testing the final six drivers for two days. Klaus Bachler from Austria, Tom Blomqvist from Britain, Michael Christensen ...
22.02.2012 | 1520 views | 0 comments
Nico Hulkenberg Leads Day 2 of Formula 1 Testing

Nico Hulkenberg Leads Day 2 of Formula 1 Testing

Nico Hulkenberg leads day two of Formula 1 testing. It is a second strong showing from the driver who was the second fastest yesterday. The cars are clearly getting faster. The top four drivers today were faster than Sebastian Vettel's fa...
22.02.2012 | 984 views | 0 comments
Lotus Clarifies Reasons for Pulling Out of Practice

Lotus Clarifies Reasons for Pulling Out of Practice

As we reported yesterday, Lotus pulled out of the second round of Formula 1 testing because it found in a flaw in the E20's chassis. Today, it clarified more about what happened. Lotus will be back at testing next week at Barcelona during the ...
22.02.2012 | 775 views | 0 comments
Vettel Leads Day in Formula 1 Barcelona Test, Lotus Pull Out Due to Chassis Flaw

Vettel Leads Day in Formula 1 Barcelona Test, Lotus Pull Out Due to Chassis Flaw

Big news from the first day of the second round of Formula 1 testing at the Circuit de Catalunya. Sebastian Vettel was the fastest car on track, and the high speed at Catalunya exposed a flaw in the Lotus' chassis so dire that it had to pull o...
22.02.2012 | 1864 views | 0 comments
The 12 Hours of Sebring to Have 30 Entries this Year, ACO De-Emphasizes Race

The 12 Hours of Sebring to Have 30 Entries this Year, ACO De-Emphasizes Race

The ACO has confirmed a 30 car entry for the 12 Hours of Sebring that will run from March 12-17. The field is made up of 9 LMP1s, 9 LMP2s, 5 LMGTE Pro cars and 7 LMGTE Am cars.  Audi has three cars entered in LMP1 and is the only factory ...
22.02.2012 | 1106 views | 0 comments
Stirling Moss Describes Vettel as 'Modern Fangio'

Stirling Moss Describes Vettel as 'Modern Fangio'

Stirling Moss never managed to win a Formula 1 World Championship but had a string of second place finishes from 1955 to 1958. From 1955 to 1957 those finishes were behind iconic Formula 1 champion Juan Manuel Fangio. Now Moss is comparing current...
20.02.2012 | 2839 views | 0 comments

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