Endurance Archive
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Change in regs deals initial blow to Toyota title challenge
An apparently minor change in sporting regulations for the FIA World Endurance Championship has dealt a major blow to Toyota’s quest for the FIA WEC manufacturers’ title and will put both the Japanese constructor and Porsche on their toes throughout the season. The #7 Toyota TS050 of Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi and José María Lopez…
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The best social media from Silverstone
The opening race of the 2017 FIA World Endurance Championship offered a mouth-watering taste of what is set to be an exciting season. Fans flocked to the Silverstone circuit in the UK to watch their favourite teams and drivers. Elsewhere, fans resorted to social media to follow their heroes and gain an insight behind the…
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Toyota and Porsche go toe-to-toe at Silverstone
The Porsche team will likely have left Silverstone with a smile on their face, having travelled to the UK with the low-downforce, Le Mans-spec bodywork and performing well at a track not entirely suited to a low-drag set-up. “We are even happier about today’s second and third place with such a marginal gap to the…
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Toyota take Six Hours of Silverstone victory
The #8 Toyota of Anthony Davidson, Kazuki Nakajima and Sebastian Buemi has started the season with a win. However after the Japanese brand was confident heading into the race, Porsche was too close for comfort. The race was won by Sebastian Buemi in the last 20 minutes as he overtook Brendon Hartley on his newer…
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Nick Tandy hoping for something “a little bit different to a standard race”
The #1 Porsche will start from third on the grid for tomorrow’s six hours of Silverstone. However Nick Tandy has noted that tyre wear will be the limiting factor in the race. We caught up with him to get his thoughts ahead of his first home race in LMP1 with Porsche. Porsche were not as…
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Silverstone Pole for Toyota
Toyota will start tomorrow’s 6 Hours of Silverstone from pole position ahead of Porsche. G-Drive will lead away the LMP1 field. Kamui Kobayashi and Mike Conway set the fastest combined time of LMP qualifying to put themselfs at the front of tomorrow’s grid, with a fastest indivudal lap time of 1:36.793. Anthony Davidson and Kazuki…
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Ford Dominate GTE Qualifying
The sun came out for GTE qualifying at Silverstone, and with it, quick times for Ford. Harry Tincknell and Andy Priaulx claiming pole position in GTE-Pro. Aston Martin replicated Ford’s dominance themselves in Am, taking pole by 1.3 seconds. The #67 Ford of Andy Priaulx, Pipo Derani and Harry Tincknell will start from a class pole…
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Toyota fastest again as Porsche close in
Toyota have maintaned their record of topping all sessions so far this weekend at Silverstone, with the #8 Toyota TS050 once again heading the times. However as qualifying looms, Porsche are closing in. Davidson took the #8 Toyota to the top of the times with a late lap. Although slower than yesterday’s FP2 pace, rain…
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2017 Season Preview: LMGTE-Pro
The mouth-watering battle in GTE Pro continues for another season with a straight-up battle between four two-car factory (or at least factory-blessed) squads. One of the main bugbears of the 2016 season, the number of BoP adjustments over the course of the season, has been resolved with the addition of an “automatic” BoP system, based…