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It rained.... a lot!! Only a handful of drivers improved their times during qualifying 2, whereas qualifying 3 was red flagged 18 minutes into the session due to the monsoon like conditions that fell upon the La Sarthe region. Whilst some teams, you won’t be surprised to know Audi were one of them, practised driver changes, and the Corvettes focused on front end changes, some teams decided a bit of down time was in order and played up to the cameras. The red flagged lasted

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 session started out on a green track as there had been no running since test day. Early running saw the teams going through their driver line ups. Early running was brought to a halt when the ByKolles number 4 with Pierre Kaffer on board came to a halt on the Mulsane straight in a large plume of smoke, a mechanical failure being sighted by the driver as the problem. The rain started to fall and teams were running full wets, as the track started to dry inters and then s

We have been sent some exclusive shots taken this evening (14th June) of the ByKolles team running the car on the runway of the Le Mans airport. As yet it has been unconfirmed by the team as to the purpose of the test but it does appear a little odd less than 24 hrs before the free practice session at 16:00 tomorrow. We will bring you more when we have it. UPDATE - ByKolles confirmed to running of the car but no official comment was available. Pictures from Brynmor Phil

Whether staying at home or at the circuit this year no doubt see an unprecedented amount of ways that you can follow the race, here you will find our completion. Live Video Streams Ford Performance and the legendary Ford GT return to France this week for the Le Mans 24 Hours, the site of one of motorsports' greatest moments 50 years ago. An all-new racer is ready to compete in one of the world's greatest sporting events, and this page has everything you need to enjoy the

The administrative and technical checks - otherwise known at Scrutineering - serve to ensure the cars' compliance with the 24 Hours of Le Mans regulations. This is a ritual viewed very favourably by spectators and sometimes dreaded by competitors. In the past, the pre-race technical checks were rather basic. It consisted primarily of weighing the cars, but today things are quite different: the 24 Hours of Le Mans cars are scrutinised down to the smallest detail before the

Monday 13 June, Le Mans: Aston Martin Racing is poised to contend the 84th running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, at the world famous Circuit de la Sarthe this weekend. Campaigning two V8 Vantage GTE Pro entries and one GTE Am, the team will be seeking outright victory in both classes, as it competes against one of the most competitive field of GTE entries in recent years. Following both the 6 Hours of Silverstone and Spa-Francorchamps, which saw the team take three podium pl

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

With the opening round of the 2016 FIA World Endurance Championship just around the corner, here is our quick guide to the Championship and its classes. If you have never seen a WEC race before the most important thing to know is that there are four classes of cars racing on the same track at the same time. Also, a common factor throughout the four classes is that one team of drivers compete in the same car; two or three drivers take turns in the car completing “stints” of

The anticipation and waiting is over. The FIA WEC cars and drivers blew the dust off the long winter and made sure it was a very Good Friday indeed at Circuit Paul Ricard today. Fine spring conditions in the South of France welcomed the 29 cars as they took to the track and welcomed in the fifth edition of the WEC, as preparations continued for the first round at Silverstone in three weeks’ time. The opening day was broken down in to three sessions – morning, afternoon and n

Ready for title defence: Two days before the official Prologue for the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) at Paul Ricard, France, Porsche is presenting its race car for this season. Strong development characterises the new 919 Hybrid’ technology. The powertrain became even more efficient, the aerodynamics were even more specific for the various race tracks and the weight of single components was even more reduced. “The over 900 hp strong Le Mans Prototype is ready for

The new TS050 HYBRID will wear the numbers 5 and 6 in the 2016 World Endurance Championship, it was confirmed. In a press conference in Paris, the Automobile Club de l’Ouest confirmed all entries for WEC and the Le Mans 24 Hours, including race numbers. That means that in 2016, Anthony Davidson, Sébastien Buemi and Kazuki Nakajima will race the #5 TS050 HYBRID while Stéphane Sarrazin, Mike Conway and Kamui Kobayashi compete in the #6. It is the first time that a TOYOTA wi

For the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) and the Le Mans 24 Hours, Audi is emphasizing focal areas in the 2016 season: The Audi R18 that has been redesigned from scratch has almost nothing in common anymore with its predecessor. It features a more radical aerodynamics concept, including a new safety cell, its hybrid drive system is battery-operated for the first time, the V6 TDI engine has been revised, and new system solutions have been added. As a result, Audi’s LMP1

So after a hectic month of driver signings we thought we would cover the main ones: WEC, British GT and Blancpain all in one place! FIA World Endurance Series With the press launch and Prologue just around the corner, the teams are gearing up for what will no doubt be another stellar year of driver/car performances. New team Manor announced their drivers. First up is ex-Formula 1 racer Will Stephens who joins from ‘sister team’ Manor Marrussia F1. He will join the returni

Manor welcomes back former-IndyCar driver, James Jakes, as the team extends its 2016 driver line up. British driver, James Jakes, will return to Manor this season for his debut in the FIA World Endurance Championship. James had previously driven with the team during 2007 in Formula 3 and 2010 in the GP3 series, visiting the podium a number of times, before heading to the USA to compete in the IndyCar Series for the past 4 seasons. This will be James’ debut into

A lot of times we get asked to explain what the FIA World Endurance Championship is all about, so we tell people and they seem to understand - one thing that you can't get over is the passion and emotion of it. Thankfully the FIA have a video that shows this - so sit back and enjoy... Witness the spirit of Le Mans, feel the emotion, experience the state-of-the-art technological performance here in the 2015 FIA World Endurance Championship action video #fiawec #wec #LeMan

Ever wondered what the differences are between LMP1 and F1? Well we did so we thought we would share our findings with you! Let’s first of all point out that this is an exercise in comparison and not a scientific study, and we will put aside the open / closed wheel layouts… So first a little history; LMP as a class was first seen at the 1992 24h Le Mans when the ACO was trying to increase the field of Group C cars that the World Sportscar Championship had to offer. D

Yesterday at their press conference in Paris the ACO announced that there will be 60 cars entered to start the 84th running of the world famous 24 hours at Le Sarthe circuit, in France on the weekend of 18th-19th of June 2016. So in the third round of the World Endurnace Championship there will be 9 LMP1, 22 LMP, 14 GTE Pro and 14 GTE Am cars running along with the garage 56 entry of Frédéric Sausset who had all 4 limbs amputated due to an illness. A full list of entri

In less than 3 hrs the FIA will be announcing the entries for the World Endurance Championship live at their press conference in Paris. Prescott motorpsort will be comentating via our twitter feed @FromTheTribune so where ever you are you can keep up with the breaking news. #fiawec #fia #24hlemans #lemans #lm24 #LeMans

Thirteen, unlucky for some, is the amount of years Bentley has been absent from the world of prototype racing! Their last outing was in 2003 when Rinaldo Capello, Guy Smith and the legendary Tom Kristensen, driving the Bentley Speed 8, won the most prestigious race of them all, the Le Mans 24 Hours. Some claim just a rumour, Bentley boss Wolfgang Durheimer says ‘it is a good idea’, but Prescott Motorsport has learnt we could see the iconic British marque return for t

Studio G24 have been hard at work on the most comprensive renders to date of what the new Ford GT might look like with the iconic Gulf Oils Livery, and I would like to thank Luis Lara at Studio G24 for sending me these and I have the privilage of letting you see these images, and to see my previous article on the livery please take a look here . If you like to look of these creations please check out G24 Studio's website