By setting the quickest qualifying time in the LMP2 class, the RS Spyder fielded by Penske Motorsports is in a good starting position for the eighth round of the American Le Mans Series. On the legendary Road America course in the US state of Wisconsin the Weissach-developed and built sports prototypes, which have excelled this season by securing five overall victories so far, take up the race on Saturday from the second row.
Claiming the fastest time in the LMP2 class and setting a new (...)
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Audi Sport North America employs only the best drivers and crew. Dindo Capello definitely qualifies. The defending LMP1 co-champion in the American Le Mans Series and winner of the Italian "Golden Helmet" award (a highly-coveted prize given to the top driver in Italy) has a soft spot for Road America, site of this weekend’s Generac 500 and the eighth round of the 2007 season.
According to Capello, Road America is one of the most beautiful tracks in America. It has a little bit of (...)
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On one of America’s oldest and most beautiful race tracks, Porsche is eager to continue its success streak in the American Le Mans Series. After five overall victories in succession and six class wins so far this season, the RS Spyders fielded by Penske Motorsports and Dyson Racing line up Saturday on the legendary Road America race track to contest the eighth round of this race series featuring the world’s fastest sports cars.
For Sascha Maassen (Germany), the 6.510 kilometre circuit at (...)
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The 26-year-old man with his characteristic blond hair has been driving for Porsche since 1999 and thus has been with Porsche longer than any other of the current nine factory drivers. Together with Frenchman Romain Dumas he pilots the yellow #7 Porsche RS Spyder in the American Le Mans Series (ALMS). The pair are considered the masters of the LMP 2 class. Currently they lead the championship points in the series featuring the world’s fastest sportscars. At three of seven races so far this (...)
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Timo Bernhard (Germany) and Romain Dumas (France) combined a perfect drive with precise Penske Motorsports pit stops, a race car with a good set-up, good fuel strategy, and Porsche RS Spyder speed and reliability to repeat their 2006 overall win on Saturday at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, round seven of the American Le Mans Series.
Teammates Sascha Maassen (Germany) and Ryan Briscoe (Australia) took their Penske Porsche RS Spyder to a second-place finish, giving Penske and Porsche their (...)
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Porsche has developed and built the open RS Spyder in accordance with the rules and regulations of the French Automobile Club de’l Ouest (A.C.O.) racing organisation under the designation "Le Mans
Prototypes 2". This means that this racing car may be entered, inter alia, in the American Le Mans Series (ALMS), the European Le Mans Series (LMS), and the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Choosing the second-highest of four A.C.O. racing categories, Porsche is facing competition at the highest level of (...
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With the race on the time-honoured Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course on 21 July, the American Le Mans Series takes off into the second half of the season. For the seventh round of this race series with the world’s fastest sports cars, the Porsche RS Spyders return to the race track where Timo Bernhard (Germany) and Romain Dumas (France) last year claimed the first overall victory with the Weissach-developed and built sports cars. This season the RS Spyders have set new standards claiming four (...)
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After missing out on a GT2 class victory last year when leading in the 23rd hour, Porsche returned to the top of the podium in GT2 with a victory for the French IMSA Performance (not related to International Motor Sports Association)
Porsche 911 GT3 RSR and the trio of Raymond Narac (France), German factory driver Richard Lietz and American factory driver Patrick Long.
Just last week, the German Manthey Racing Porsche 911 GT3 RSR won the 24 hour race on the Nürburgring with the Porsche (...
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Team Audi Sport North America breaks new ground once again with the Audi R10 TDI only 14 days after the accident-packed race at Lime Rock: The Le Mans winning diesel sportscar has, as yet, not driven a single meter at Mid Ohio (US state of Ohio). Dindo Capello/Allan McNish and Emanuele Pirro/Marco Werner therefore face yet another big challenge on the weekend of 21 July during the seventh round of the American Le Mans Series.
The track at Mid Ohio is only 2.258 miles long and has 13 (...)
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A great day for Penske Motorsports as their pilots Ryan Briscoe and Sascha Maassen brought victory in the American Le Mans Series, at the Northeast Grand Prix. Ryan Briscoe took the lead over the team-mates Timo Bernhard and Romain Dumas.Briscoe won the race after a long dominance of Dumas.
David Brabham and Stefan Johansson took the 3rd place for their Highcroft Racing team.
Allan McNish and Dindo Capello finished first in the LMP1 with their diesel-powered
Audi R10 TDI.The Audi R10 TDI (...
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