Day: June 2, 2018

Strategy decided outcome in Detroit

Jens Jensen

WeatherTech SportsCar Championship had reached Detroit, where the Prototype and GTD cars would race for an hour and 40 minutes on the tight street circuit. The Tequila Patron Extreme Speed Motorsports #22 had taken Pole Position with Johannes van Overbeek and Pipo Derani, while Acura Team Penske #6 and #7 were the next two cars in line. In the GTD category we had Bryan Sellers and Madison Snow on Pole Position for Paul Miller Racing Lamborghini #48, ahead of the two Meyer Shank Racing Acura #86 and #93 cars. The…

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Sunny Saturday race in the DTM

Jens Jensen

The sun was on full power, when the fifth round of the DTM was run at Hungaroring near Budapest. Paul di Resta had grabbed Pole Position ahead of Nico Müller, Lucas Auer and returnee Rene Rast. We had to go all the way back to P8 to find the fastest BMW, with Augusto Farfus. Championship leader Timo Glock was all the way back in P16. Di Resta closed the door on Müller, while it almost worked out for Auer to grab second, but not quite. Bruno Spengler, Jamie Green and…

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Porsche with retro design at Le Mans

Jens Jensen

The Porsche GT Team will enter this years 24 hours race at Circuit de la Sarthe with two different liveries on their FIA World Endurance Championship cars. To celebrate their 70 years sports car anniversary, they team has chosen to paint #91 and #92 with some classic colours from their previous Le Mans winners. #91 will have blue white and gold paint, like it was known from the Rothmans sponsor colours, that the team raced and won with in the 80’s. They won Le Mans with these colours in 1982…

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Vasselon: It’s work in progress

Jens Jensen

Toyota Gazoo Racing Technical Director Pascal Vasselon gave Racing24-7.net alongside other media quite a bit of time, answering some of the questions ahead of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and the rest of the FIA World Endurance Championship season. Of course there was a lot of questions surrounding the gaps between the hybrid cars and the non-hybrid cars. So the first question was; is the gap to the privateer what you expected? “The honest answer is that I have no clue what’s going on. It’s work in progress. Who…

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