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UPDATE - a fantastic response during the auction meant that the picture made £200.00 for Mission Motorsport - well done all who took part During the Le Mans week we will be teaming up with Mission Motorsport and Beer Mountain to raise funds for Mission Motorsport. There will be a special, one of a kind item placed up for auction via Beer Mountain, please click here to find out how you can own an exclusive, on of a kind signed photo of the number 7 Audi drivers. Missio

The 60 cars due to take the start of the 84th running of the third round of the FIA World Endurance Championship have now completed eight hours of practice on the 13.6km Circuit des 24 Heures track. Here are the highlights from the afternoon session: Audi Sport’s Lucas Di Grassi set the fastest time of the day just before the half way mark of the afternoon session. The No.8 R18 lapped the track in a time of 3:21.375. The gaps between the Porsches and No.7 Audi were very

Porsche heads the field with a 1-2 in LMP1, the fastest lap being a 3:22.334 set by Marc Lieb in the No.2 Porsche 919 Hybrid. The German heads the No.1 by just over two tenths of a second, Mark Webber having set a best lap of 3:22.555 in the No.1 entry.The two Audi R18s have also dipped under the 3m22 mark this morning, close behind the Porsches, with Toyota Gazoo Racing’s TS050 HYBRIDS slightly further back but working through a comprehensive test programme. LMP1 Private

The entry list for the official Le Mans 24 Hours test day on Sunday 5th June has been released and it can be found HERE . (Subject to change as described in our article HERE ) All the registered teams and drivers use the opportunity to re-familiarise themselves with the 14km track ahead of race week, and to start the work on the set up which they all hope will see them achieve success in the race on 18/19th June. There are a few regulations which must be followed for the

Paolo Roberti has ruled himself out of this years Le Mans following a crash today at Hockenheim while teaching a student. The car he was driving suffered a technical problem with its brakes on the backstretch at 200kph. Both Paolo and the student he was teaching are in hospital close the the circuit, Paolo suffering a fracture of his lumber vertebrae. As yet there has been no word from the Larbre Competition team as to his replacement for Le Mans Roberto Merhi will repla

Audi has won the unusually tough second round of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) at Spa-Francorchamps. In temperatures above 25 degrees centigrade, in the end only two of the six hybrid sports cars from all manufacturers that had started finished at the front of the field in Belgium. Victory with a two-lap advantage was celebrated by Lucas di Grassi/Loïc Duval/Oliver Jarvis (BR/F/GB) following an impeccable race in their Audi R18. The spectators in Belgium witne

A weekend of sunshine, warm temperatures and action-packed family entertainment is on offer for everyone who travels to the 2016 FIA World Endurance Championship at the world famous Spa-Francorchamps circuit in Belgium. On track, no fewer than 34 cars will be battling it out for victory, while the well-established Fan Area offers plenty of family fun and a great variety of entertainments for all. The fifth edition of the WEC 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, from the 5th - 7th

Audi has great plans for round two of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) on Saturday, May 7. On the race track at Spa, Belgium, the premium brand with the Audi R18 is aiming to continue its string of podium successes, the beginning of which now dates back six years. Spa is an outstanding venue for Audi’s sports cars. Since 2010, the team has clinched ten trophies in total there with Le Mans prototypes. They include victories in 2012, 2013 and 2015, plus three secon

Audi has chosen not to lodge an appeal following the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) in the United Kingdom. After Marcel Fässler/André Lotterer/Benoît Tréluyer had won the Silverstone 6 Hours on April 17, their Audi R18 was excluded post-race from the classification due to a violation of the LMP1 class Technical Regulations. The thickness of the skid block of the number “7” Audi R18 represented a breach of Article 3.5.6 a3 of the regulations, according to the assess

Manor, who compete in the FIA World Endurance Championship, have launched an innovative new mobile app that begins to change the way racing teams can interact with fans. The mobile app, which has been developed in partnership with technology specialists Inovica, is available now for both Apple and Android devices and fans can download it for free from the App Store or Google Play (by searching for Manor Endurance). The new mobile app provides fans with exclusive content i

In the very late evening it was announced that the stewards of the meeting received a report from the Technical Delegate explaining that the thickness of the front skid block of car no. 7 doesn’t comply with article 3.5.6 a3 of the LMP1 Technical Regulations. And so the no. 7 car was excluded from the results of the race, this meant that Porsche were the winners and Rebellion Racing were promoted to third over all. However, around 1am on Sunday morning Audi Sport said that

With the sun still shining over the Northamptonshire circuit, the last 60 minutes proved the usual down to the wire ending that has became unanimous with the WEC championship. Heading into the final hour the No. 2 Porsche driven by Neal Jani had a 54 second lead over the second placed Audi of Marcel Fassler but the Porsche was still to pit. Jani pitted the Porsche on lap 161, and with only changing 2 tyres rather than 4 came out only 6 seconds behind the Fassler Audi.

The day started with not a cloud in the sky, much different to yesterdays snow storm which disrupted most of the mornings running. With the LPM1 hybrids formed up in a two by two team formation, the Audi’s lead the grid off on two formation laps. At 12noon the green flag, waved by actor and Porsche driver Patrick Dempsey fell, and the much anticipated 2016 FIA World Endurance Championship was underway. The No. 7 Audi of André Lotterer led into Abbey with the rest of the

In Their first qualifying session of the season, Aston Martin’s three beauties qualified P5 and P6 in GTE Pro and P6 in GTE Am. On an extremely wet track (it had been snowing for over an hour!), the #97 of Fernando Rees and Richie Stanaway set a combined average lap time of 2m 21.626 to place them P5 in class. Richie comments ‘We are still in a learning period with our new tyres and the unique ambient and track temperatures made this session extremely difficult. We ran t

'Hugely frustrating' and 'we will urgently seek to address the issues' were phrases used in Toyota Gazoo Racing's post qualifying press release. With gaps of 4.996 for the #6 and 6.905 for #5 off the pole time, the two TS050 hybrids proved to be uncompetitive. Unsuitable control settings for the conditions gave the drivers no chance in today's wet 20 minute qualifying session. ‘It has been a challenging day weather-wise and that has put us a bit out of synch with the set

In what can only be described as challenging conditions, Audi got the best possible start to their 2016 FIA World Endurance Championship with a qualifying 1-2 for the Ingolstadt team. Sleet then snow, which in turn saw the cancellation of FP3, was not how anyone expected their day to begin but Audi played their hand perfectly. ‘The Audi R18 practically has not a single bolt in common anymore with its predecessor’ commented Head of Audi Motorsport Dr. Wolfgang Ullrich. ‘C

The two Porsche 919 hybrids will start the 6 hours at Silverstone from the second row of the grid. On a drying track the No.1 of Bernhard, Hartley and Webber qualified ahead of their teammates by a mere .116 of a second. 'The conditions were very cold and it was even snowing in the morning - we made the right call to keep our full wets on' said Hartley. German Marc Lieb of the No.2 Porsche commented 'We went in a slightly different direction on set-up to that of our sist

After a wintery start to the day at Silverstone with temperatures not peaking over 4 degrees the cars started to go out on track, with the number five Toyota of Anthony Davidson taking the first early running. A series of off track excursions be felt the early runners and the track was red flagged after 6 min with the number five Toyota being unceremoniously removed from a gravel trap on the end of a JCB. With 40 minutes of the session remaining all of the LMP1-H cars hav

The FIA World Endurance Championship’s App has received many plaudits for its range of entertaining and informative content, ease of use, and availability on multiple platforms. Now, for 2016, it has been upgraded further with a new design and features, better integration and new content so that fans of the best endurance racing in the world don’t have to miss a minute of the action. We rely more and more heavily on small screen technology in our everyday lives, with many

Aston Martin Racing is set to kick off its 2016 campaign this weekend (17 April), as the first round of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) takes place at Silverstone. With the team looking to claim a strong finish in this weekend’s race, Aston Martin Racing Team Principal Paul Howarth knows the importance of claiming points consistently across what is tipped to be the FIA WEC’s most competitive season to date. “We’re in a great place ahead of Silverstone,” he comme