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Simpson Motorsport today announced their return to the British GT Series with the new Porsche Cayman GT4 Clubsport, with Nick Jones and Scot Malvern behind the wheel. During the series' 24 year history Simpson Motorsport have been seen competing in various exotica such as the Ferrari F40 and 348LM along with the Porsche 911 RSR GT2. Two seasons racing Radicals and Jones is now ready for the step up into the British GT - “ I feel very lucky to have the opportunity to c

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

At the end of 24hrs of racing the finish saw the closest winning margin in the races history between the #3 and #4 Corvette racing cars of Oliver Gavin and Antonio Garcia at a mere 0.034 seconds! “ What you saw today was simply the two best road racers in the world with the two best cars in the world ,” said Doug Fehan, Corvette Racing program manager. “ You’d be hard pressed to find a better race than this. You don’t spend 23.5 hours working this hard and not let those

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

Johnny Mowlem captured his second-consecutive Prototype Challenge (PC) TOTAL Pole Award at Daytona for the Rolex 24, running a lap of 2:06.312 (101.951 mph) in the No. 20 BAR1 Motorsports Zoolander/Southwest Realty Advisors/Top 1 Oil ORECA FLM09. He will share the car with NASCAR veteran Brendan Gaughan, as well as Marc Drumwright, Tomy Drissi and Ricardo Vera. “I had a really great qualifying last year and it came down to the final lap,” Mowlem said. “The conditions

Nick Tandy captured the GT Le Mans pole for the Rolex 24 at Daytona International Speedway. Driving the No. 911 Porsche North America with teammate and last year’s IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship GTLM champion, Patrick Pilet, Tandy – a two-time GTLM pole winner in 2015 and the reigning 24 Hours of Le Mans overall champion – posted a best time of 2:01.408 (105.561 mph). Frédéric Makowiecki qualified second in GTLM with a time of 2:02.364 (104.737 mph) in the

Well the covers have finally come off the new Ginetta G57 as Chairman Lawrence Tomlinson revealed the 580bhp prototype to much applause. Dubbed by Ginetta “as one of the fastest track day cars you can buy”, it’s still not entirely clear where this car will fit into the existing series racing, however has been accepted into the VdeV series in France, with other series’ sure to follow. Lawrence Tomlinson, Chairman of Ginetta explained “European Le Mans Series provided the

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

The latest turbodiesel LMP1 racer to carry the R18 e-tron quattro name will race in the six megajoule hybrid sub-class next year rather than the 4MJ division in which it competed in 2015. Audi has abandoned the flywheel energy storage or mechanical battery system used since the arrival of the first R18 hybrid in 2012 in favour of a lithium-ion battery, the same technology used by 2015 WEC champion Porsche. The move to 6MJ should put the Audi on a par in terms of the Equ

The iconic Gulf livery colours originated with the Gulf Oil Corporation in 1967, when its Vice President, Grady Davis, entered his own GT40 as an independent at both Daytona and Sebring. Originally the car was finished in the standard Gulf Oil colours of dark blue with orange trim, during this year Ford USA withdrew from sports car racing and in turn Gulf Oil corp. took over the sponsorship of the newly created GT40 team – John Wyer Automotive Engineering. The first offi

So the Six Hours of Bahrain…. The question is where to start! From the start of the race there were battles all through the 4 classes! Right from the first corner Audi and Porsche were battling, the No. 17 Porsche having taking pole and with the sister car of 18 alongside all the work had to be done by Audi should they want to win the driver championship. In the first hour a mechanical problem for the championship leading 17 Porsche sent the car 4 laps down and to

The Porsche Team is offering three young drivers the opportunity to test the innovative Le Mans Prototype Porsche 919 Hybrid at the Circuit de Catalunya near Barcelona today and tomorrow. Mitch Evans (21, New Zealand), Kevin Magnussen (23, Denmark) and Oliver Turvey (28, Great Britain) are sharing one car. Porsche works driver and championship leaderTimo Bernhard (34, Germany) is the driver who will be their reference point at the track. Team Principal Andreas Seidl e

The team develoing the IM01 Le Mans Garage 56 racer has unveiled their all electric racer, the worlds fastest electric formula racer with a 0-100 kph in less than 3 seconds and then keeps acelerating to 285 kph. " The KP&T IM/e has been developed as a test bed for the technologies to be used in the IM01 Le Mans car" said Marc de Mol Moncourt from the team, "our aims for 2016 are to break the electric lap record at Zandvort and the Nurburgring" he added. The team

Porsche may have been crowned 2015 WEC LMP1 manufacturers winners, but the race for the drivers Championship is going down to the wire in the desert. At The Bahrain International Circuit, with a twelve point difference between the No. 17 Porsche of Bernhard, Hartley and Webber and the 7 Audi of Lotterer, Treluyer and Fassler, it's all to play for. With 1 DNF for the drivers of car 17 at the opening round at Silverstone, an otherwise 100% top three finish rate for both c

During the 85th edition of the 24h of Le Mans in 2017 the rotary engine will return to this legendary track, more than 25 years after it has been banned from endurance racing. The Hybrid IM01 racecar will use a rotary engine as range-extender in order to complete the 24 hours. Because the rotary engine will be used as a generator, it can be tuned in such a way that it always runs in its optimal operation point. This results in a tremendous reduction in fuel consumpti

Ginetta have proven themselves as the manufacturer of the fastest LMP3 car in the world. Now the Yorkshire marque turns their attentions to a new-for-2016 car; the Ginetta G57. With a class first and second in the inaugural European Le Mans Series driver and teams championship, Ginetta have been the dominant force throughout the inaugural LMP3 season, taking a clean sweep of class victories. A fantastic partnership between Ginetta, the ACO and ELMS throughout the develo

By taking the fifth consecutive race win this season, in Shanghai (China), Porsche has won the constructors’ title in the World Endurance Championship with its innovative 919 Hybrid today. Now having 308 points, the sports car manufacturer from Stuttgart can’t be beaten, despite one championship race to go. Audi has 238 points and Toyota 137. * For Porsche it is the 13th constructors’ World Championship title in endurance racing and the first since 1986. Between 1964 and 1986

Audi are going to the moon! 'Vorsprung durch Technik' means 'progress through technology'. We pride ourselves on exceeding limits so our next mission is to send Audi technology to the moon. The $30-million Google Lunar XPRIZE (GLXP) is an inducement prize space competition organised by the X Prize Foundation, and sponsored by Google. It inspires engineers and entrepreneurs from around the world to develop low-cost methods of robotic space exploration. To win the