Le Mans Series:

Audi Diesel keeps on winning

Audi continued its impressive series of victories in the Le Mans 24 Hour race in extremely difficult conditions. Frank Biela (Germany), Emanuele Pirro (Italy) and Marco Werner (Germany) repeated their success from last year thus giving Audi their seventh victory in the French endurance classic. For the second consecutive time, the Audi R10 TDI claimed victory. The revolutionary diesel sportscar from Ingolstadt remains unbeaten at Le Mans. In the 75th edition of the Le Mans 24 Hour race, (...)
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7th victory for Audi at the 24 Hours of Le Mans

7th victory for Audi at the 24 Hours of Le Mans(2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007). Due to the strong rainfall that flooded the circuit in the last hour of the race, the Race Directors, led by Daniel Poissenot, decided to neutralize the race and deployed the safety cars for 50 minutes. It was a decision that didn’t affect the outcome of the race. The first priority of all teams was to finish the race safely. Even if each car spent time in their garages near the end of the race, (...)
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Le Mans final qualifications

Le Mans 24h qualifying session has finally got to an end.Here is the final top 5 postions: 1.Larny/Sarrazin/Bourdais(Peugeot 908 HDi), 3m26.344s 2.Capello/Kristensen/McNish(Audi R10 TDi),+0.572s 3.Gene/Minassian/Villeneuve(Peugeot 908 HDi),+ 1.380s 4.Biela/Pirro/Werner(Audi R10 TDi),+ 1.957s 5.Luhr/Rockenfeler/Prernat(Audi R10 TDi), +3.392s Sebastian Bourdais the number one in qualifying session wit his Peugeot 908 HDi has given his impression of the condition of the track this morning. (..
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Audi suffers major impact at Tertre Rouge

The accident made the safety car enter and stop the race. At 16:32 the two safety cars have entered the course again after a major accident involving one of the Audis. Mike Rockenfeller has lost control of the No.3 Audi R10 TDi in Tertre Rouge and impacted the Armco barrier with the rear of the car. At the time it left the track, the ‘oil flags’ were being waved in this location. There has been damage to the Armco barrier. Rockenfeller does not appear to be injured, but the car is severely (...)
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First qualifications at Le Mans

It looks like the battle at this year’s edition of LeMans 24h race it’s going to be between the 2 diesel beasts: Audi R10 TDI and Peugeot 908 HDi. The results of Qualifying 1: 1.Lamy/Sarrazin/Bourdais (Peugeot) 3m 26.344s 2.Capello/Kristensen/McNish (Audi R10 TDI) 3m 26.916s 3.Gene/Minassian/Villeneuve (Peugeot) 3m 27.724s 4.Biela/Pirro/Werner (Audi R10 TDI) 3m 28.301s 5.Luhr/Prémat/Rockenfeller (Audi R10 TDI) 3m 29.736s 6.Collard/Boullion/Dumas (Pescarolo-Judd) 3m 33.590s (..
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Le Mans in the Corvette

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Flying Lizard Motorsports unveils Porsche for LeMans

Flying Lizard Motorsports unveiled today a custom livery for the team’s No. 80 Porsche 911 GT3 RSR.
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Peugeot dominates the first qualifications at LeMans

Peugeot has reached their first goal in qualifying, at least temporarily, because teams can still improve their position if the weather stays dry. But if the weather doesn’t cooperate, the 3:26.344 laid down by the Team Peugeot Total 908 HDi FAP at the end of this first session will give them the pole
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24 good reasons to attend The Le Mans 24h race

55 cars at the start once again: Thanks to the 9 new pits built at the start of 2007 the capacity of the Le Mans 24-Hours circuit has been increased to 55 cars, a figure not matched since 1989.
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Porsche 936 racing with 250mph at LeMans

You can see in this video the Porsche 936 on the Mulsanne straightaway reaching almost 400 km/h(or almost 250mph).

Mulsanne is the famous straightaway on the Circuit de la Sarthe that is used in the sports car endurance race 24 Hours of Le Mans. Originally a 5km straight, it was reduced into 3 sections with two chicanes to reduce the dangerous 250mph speeds for the 1990 endurance race.

This is Porsche 936, a racing car introduced in 1976 by Porsche to race in Le Mans.From 1976 to 1981, the factory entered Porsche 936 won the 24 Hours of Le Mans three times with Jacky Ickx (’76, ’77, ’81), and came second twice (’78 and ’80).