Endurance Archive
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Kubica joins ByKolles in LMP1
Robert Kubica has been announced as the lead driver for LMP1 team ByKolles for the 2017 FIA World Endurance Championship. The former F1 driver joins the Austrian-entered squad on a full-season basis after successfully testing the car at the official test in Bahrain last November. The Pole raced in Formula 1 until 2011, when a serious…
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Toyota confirm third car for 2017
Toyota Gazoo Racing have announced a number of changes to their LMP1 programme in the run-up to the 2017 season, with new additions to the driver line-up and three cars confirmed to run at Spa and Le Mans for the first time since joining the FIA WEC in 2012. With last year’s heartbreaking conclusion to…
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A fresh look for Endurance Archive
Last October Endurance Archive celebrated its third anniversary. Over those three years, the Endurance Archive team has kept abreast with the latest news from the WEC and provided comprehensive race reports and analysis. Unfortunately left little time to work on improving the site’s design and functionality – but all that has now changed!
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Fresh off the press!
For many fans, the annual Porsche Sport book is one of the first gifts on the Christmas list. This year is the 24th edition of the classic annual, but this time things are a little different. Here at Endurance Archive we have tried something new and got together with Gruppe C Motorsport Verlag for the 2016…
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Book review: Porsche Victory 2016
Books are popular gifts for friends and family at Christmas time. When it comes to motorsport books, it’s often hard to wade through the vast range of titles on offer to find something suitable. “Porsche Victory 2016”, published in November by Gruppe C Verlag, may just be the perfect present for that motorsport-mad member of…
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GTE-PRO winners to be crowned World Champions from 2017
Despite the FIA World Endurance Championship being five years old, the GTE-PRO class has never crowned an offical World Champion. Up until this point GTE drivers and Manufactures have been competing for the World Endurance Cup of GT Drivers. However that is set to change in 2017. Following the World Motorsport Council meeting in Vienna…
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Driver ratings cause controversy once again
Driver ratings have arguably been one of the most controversial aspects of the FIA World Endurance Championship in recent years. For the uninitiated, driver ratings may seem like a relatively unimportant issue in the grand scheme of things, but in reality they can play a major role in whether or not drivers – and indeed teams –…
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Porsche’s Jani, Lieb and Dumas take the title as Audi complete perfect swan song
For the second year running, Porsche drivers take the drivers title after a difficult Bahrain race. This time Neel Jani, Marc Lieb and Romain Dumas complete the perfect season, with Le Mans victory, and the FIA LMP World Drivers’ Championship. However it was a perfect race for Audi, as they bow out of the WEC…
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Halfway Report: 6 Hours of Shanghai
The penultimate round in the 2016 FIA World Endurance Championship got underway this morning with Porsche on pole position. With the championship still up for grabs and Audi looking to prove a point in their final two races in LMP1, the 6 Hours of Shanghai was looking set to be a classic. Hour 1 The…