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Lucas Ordoñez won the first GT Academy time-trial contest, giving the gamer-racer his start in the FIA GT4 series. Now he's signed to Team Signatech Nissan, and will compete in the 2011 24 Hours of Le Mans. Mind-blowing. More »
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GM’s venerable small-block LS3 from the 2009 Corvette/2010 Camaro SS has found its way under the rear bodywork of a new Formula Le Mans prototype. Click below to see and hear the beast in action. More »
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Porsche has said it will no longer be sponsoring an LMP2 team in next year's American Le Mans Series, despite winning the last three LMP2 championships. More »
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For those who didn't watch the entire 24 Hours Of Le Mans by subsisting on a diet of Bawls and Pop Rocks this weekend, we've got a short wrap-up for you. We'll leave the salient details for below the jump, just in case there are some of you out there that TiVo'd the festivities and are planning to dole out the oil-burning goodness four hours at a time for the next week. Needless to say, some cars won. Others didn't. There was weather. If you want to know more you're going to have to click the button that says "more." More »
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Sick of humiliation at the hands of their part-owners and rivals, Audi boldly steps up the rhetoric and claims that they shall emerge victorious from this weekend's ALMS event at Road America. Having been soundly rounded by LMP2 cars in the last five races, the ALMS has made some next-season concessions to keep the diesel LMP1 cars in front of the pack. According to Audi's press release, "Team Audi Sport North America believes it has the opportunity to beat the preferentially treated LM P2 cars, which recently celebrated five successive overall victories. As a consequence, the LM P2 car's minimum weight has been increased by 50 kilograms by the rule makers for the 2008 season." Audi claims that Road America is a friendlier course for the R10, and what's more, that they've gone unbeaten at the track. Will the ghosts of Ferdinand and Ferry smite them? Or will August Horch's apparition appear and give the diesel cars the edge? Press Release after the jump. More »
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As those German car bloggers at (what was the name of that site again?) report, we may soon get a look at Audi's diesel-powered LMP2 car, or if rumors are off base, just another naturally aspirated Audi Sport LeMans racer. The company is launching the successor to its well-won R8 in Paris on December 13. Bring your truckers' wallet and CB, this here diesel's gonna be eastbound and down before sunup (EST). More »
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Porsche's busted out with some more details on their American LeMans Series effort, including the names of the men who will pilot the RS Spyder LMP2: Sascha Maassen and Lucas Luhr, along with Emmanuel Collard at Road Atlanta's Petit LeMans. Maassen and Luhr recently tested the car at Portugal's 13-turn Estoril track, and the official word from der Vaterland is that officials are pleased with the car's progress. Only appearing at the last two events of the ALMS season the aforementioned Petit LeMans, and the year's final race at Laguna Seca the RS Spyder will make a full assault on the circuit in '06. More »
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While Jalopnik will be flying the flannel at Sears Point (as NorCal expatriates we just can't quite bring ourselves to call it Infineon Raceway) in a little over a week for the NHRA's Fram/Autolite Nationals, it's time to look back at what could be called drag racing's inverse the American LeMans Series. More »
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