Following the final WEC race in Shanghai on the weekend Audi is now telling the world all about their latest world titles. There’s no surprise that Audi won the inaugural WEC constructors’ title, that was wrapped up in August, but the drivers’ championship was only settled in China. The double points win at Le Mans […]
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Back in June Audi notched up its eleventh victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. At the time we captured their success with a photo gallery. Somewhat belatedly, Audi has come good with their official highlights reel which has just been posted to YouTube. The video captures the drama rather well and does a […]
We’re a bit late with this news, but we couldn’t let it go unmentioned. A couple of weekends back Audi completed its third 24 hour race victory in 71 days when it won the Spa 24 hour race. The Spa success sits alongside Audi’s 11th Le Mans 24 hour race and first Nürburgring 24 hour […]
Audi has announced the arrival of the R8 e-tron by claiming a new Nürburgring lap record for a series production electric powered vehicle. The all-electric R8 e-tron lapped the Nordschleife in 8:09.099, impressive for a production-based model, but still some way off the Toyota–Radical TMG EV P001 (7:47.794). The R8 e-tron was first previewed in […]
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2012 Le Mans 24: Audi v Toyota
On paper Toyota’s return to the LMP1 category at Le Mans in 2012 was an abject failure. Yet, with an interrupted development program, they have much to be proud of. Like this battle between Benoît Tréluyer in the #1 Audi R18 e-tron quattro and Nicolas Lapierre in the #7 Toyota TS030 Hybrid. In a high […]
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Audi previews 24 Hours of Le Mans
Let’s be honest, if Audi doesn’t win its 11th outright title at the 24 Hours of Le Mans this weekend it will be a major story. This year, for the first time, they’re trying to do it with a new diesel-hybrid. Officially the car is known as the R18 e-tron quattro and there’ll be two […]
The 2012 edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans is just two weeks away now. Last year’s race was an epic in every sense of the word. Audi will defend their title, and chase their 11th win, with the R18 e-tron quattro hybrid. Before we get stuck into this year’s race, here’s a gallery […]
Audi won a dramatic 24 hour race at the Nürburgring yesterday. It was the 40th running of the endurance classic, but this was their first win and was capped off in style with a one-two victory. The race was won by the #3 Team Phoenix Audi R8 LMS ultra, with the #26 Mamerow Racing entry […]
Following its DeltaWing project Nissan is coming back to Le Mans in 2014 with the Zeod RC. This time, though, Nissan is acting alone, and not with the cooperation of Don Panoz, who is pushing on with a DeltaWing Coupé project of his own. Zeod stands for Zero Emissions On Demand and at its launch […]
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Allan Simonsen 1978–2013
It’s with a heavy heart that we emerge from our week away to mention the death of Allan Simonsen at the 24 Hours of Le Mans over the weekend. Allan raced in GT endurance events all over the world, notably V8 Supercars, Le Mans and at the Nürburgring 24 Hour Race. Simonsen also attracted attention […]
Audi plans to defend its 2012 Le Mans crown with a long-tail version of its R18 e-tron quattro. To help prepare for Le Mans Audi will race one R18 ‘long-tail’ at the 6 Hours of Spa this weekend. And to prepare for Spa they took a ‘long-tail’ to Monza for high speed testing. The R18 […]
The Mark Webber to Porsche rumour has increased in intensity following the fallout from Sebastian Vettel’s controversial victory at the Malaysian Grand Prix. When we first reported on the rumour in the middle of last year we gave our unwavering support to Webber leading the charge for Porsche at Le Mans in 2014. Only Mark […]