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Auto Racing: ALMS Audi To Offer Customer GT3 R8 |
| 8/27/2008 10:19:43 AM |
Auto racing for the first time, Audi Sport will offer a racing sports car specifically developed for customer use in the form of the powerful 500 hp plus GT3 version of the Audi R8 which will be available from autumn 2009. The logistics and factory space required for the AUDI AG customer sports car racing program will be created over the next few months in Ingolstadt,... Read More |
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Auto Racing: 2009 BMW Entry Growing Presence |
| 8/21/2008 3:50:46 PM |
Auto racing the volume of frequency of BMW/Rahal Letterman Racing employees at ALMS races has been  growing since the Series got back underway after Le Mans this year, and the amount of speculation over their 2009 driver lineup is growing at an equally impressive rate. Rumors of Jamie Melo signing for RLR continue to grow, just as rumors that former factory pilot Joey Hand... Read More |
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Auto Racing: Grand-Am Childress-Howard Motorsports DP Car To Debut At Watkins Glen |
| 8/5/2008 11:04:26 AM |
Auto racing Childress-Howard Motorsports Debut at Watkins Glen The No. 4 AT&T Daytona Prototype Pontiac  Crawford fielded by Childress-Howard Motorsports will make its 2008 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series debut Aug. 8 in the Crown Royal 200 at the Glen at Watkins Glen (N.Y.) International.
Sports Car racing legend Andy Wallace and multi-time Rolex Series champion Andy... Read More |
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Auto Racing: ALMS Former Honda F1 Test Driver Joins AGR ALMS Team |
| 8/4/2008 4:31:05 PM |
Auto racing Former Honda F1 and Super Aguri test driver James Rossiter will make his American Le Man s Series debut at Road America this weekend.
The 24-year-old Briton will join fellow former Super Aguri driver Franck Montagny in Andretti Green Racing's Acura for least two events, with Mosport following Road America later this month.
"I'm really looking forward to the... Read More |
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Auto Racing: Grand-Am Brumos Team So-Close-Yet-So-Far |
| 8/4/2008 8:22:03 AM |
 Auto racing - Darren Law expected to be excited following his third-place finish in Friday's Grand-Am Montreal 200. It marked the fourth podium finish for himself and David Donohue in the No. 58 Brumos DP Porsche Riley. Out of the top 20 in points only a few weeks ago, the result also moved the pair to a tie for fifth in the Daytona Prototype championship standings.
If one... Read More |
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Auto Racing: Lexus Enters Speed Challenge |
| 7/18/2008 12:47:06 PM |
There hasn't been any news on an IS F racecar since we heard rumors that the sedan, unveiled at the Tokyo  Auto Salon, was really a reskinned 2004 Opel Vectra DTM. While Lexus might not be supporting a factory-backed motorsports program for the IS-F, that doesn't mean that privateer teams can't develop a car on their own. DRC Motorsports has done just that and has built two... Read More |
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Auto Racing: Frank Biela Future In Doubt With Audi |
| 7/1/2008 6:15:29 PM |
 ALMS racing Frank Biela's future with Audi's sportscar team is in doubt following the German manufacturer's decision to replace him with Dindo Capello in their American Le Mans Series line-up.
Capello, who won the Le Mans 24 Hours with Allan McNish and Tom Kristensen two weeks ago, will share the No.1 Audi R10 TDi with Emanuele Pirro for at least the next two races, at Lime... Read More |
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Auto Racing: Grand-Am Donohue Put's The 58 On Pole |
| 6/20/2008 3:58:54 PM |
Auto racing running with a new Porsche engine in their Daytona Prototype and limited practice time, David Donohue waited until the final minutes of qualifying to shatter the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course track record in qualifying for the EMCO Gears Classic presented by KeyBank, Round 8 of the 2008 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Cask No. 16 season.
Co... Read More |
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Auto Racing: Peugeot Shatters LeMans Lap Record |
| 6/12/2008 2:05:46 PM |
Auto racing Peugeot set such a quick pace in the first qualifying session for this weekend's LeMans 24 Hours, the Audis appeared to be standing still.
Stephane Sarrazin, in the No.8 car, lapped eight seconds quicker than last year's pole time with a best of 3:18.513. Teammate Franck Montagny put the No.9 car just one tenth of a second behind, and Nicolas Minassian completed... Read More |
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Auto Racing: Audi R8 To Compete In This Years Nurburgring 24 |
| 5/17/2008 11:04:27 AM |
 Sports car racing this year's Nürburgring 24-hour endurance race will feature perhaps the most wicked looking Audi R8 yet: a lightweight, custom-built racer that makes the road car look tame by comparison. To comply with the requirements for participation in the race, the stock 4.2L V8 donates its block and is rebuilt from there.
The race-spec motor's displacement drops to... Read More |
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Auto Racing: Grand-Am David Donohue's Brumos DP Porsche Takes Laguna Pole |
| 5/16/2008 10:11:53 PM |
 Auto Racing Grand-Am David Donohue saved his best for last Friday, running his fastest lap near the end of the session to win the pole for the RumBum.com 250 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.
Donohue's Daytona Prototype ran a lap of 1:19.843, 100.908 mph, on his eighth of nine qualifying laps to win his second pole of the season in Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series presented by... Read More |
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Auto Racing: Toyota Prepping For 24 Hours Of Nurburgring |
| 5/13/2008 5:55:34 PM |
 Auto racing interesting article posted on AutoBlog.com Toyota is still prepping the LF-A for its assault on the 24 Hours of Nurburgring later this month, but it managed to campaign the Lexus supercar in the ADAC Rundstrecken Trophy Endurance, held on a 15.1-mile course that combines the Nordschliefe with the adjoining grand prix circuit. The LF-A placed 77th overall after... Read More |
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Auto Racing: ALMS In Action This Weekend At Utah Miller Track |
| 5/13/2008 5:40:31 PM |
| Auto racing ALMS Utah GP pre-race quotes from GT class talk about a change of scenery. The Larry H. Miller Dealerships Utah Grand Prix presented by the Grand and Little America Hotels could not be more of a contrast to the previous two rounds of the American Le Mans Series. Instead of tight, twisty street circuits, Miller Motorsports Park is a wide-open, extremely fast... Read More |
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Auto Racing: Laguna Seca Grand-Am Cristiano da Matta Makes His Return With GAINSO/Bob Stallings This Weekend |
| 5/13/2008 5:35:47 PM |
 Auto racing Grand-Am less than two years after sustaining critical injuries in a testing accident, former CART Champ Car World Series Champion and Formula 1 veteran Cristiano da Matta will make his official return to competitive driving in a second GAINSCO/Bob Stallings Racing Pontiac Riley he will co-drive with Jimmy Vasser at the upcoming Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series... Read More |
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Auto Racing: Peugeot On Top In Practice For The Spa Le Mans Series Race |
| 5/9/2008 10:01:34 AM |
 Auto racing Peugeot continued to dominate proceedings at Spa-Francorchamps this afternoon, finish the second practice session for this weekend's Le Mans Series round with both cars at the top of the timesheets.
But Audi are at least onto the same pace as their rivals now, thanks to Allan McNish's 2:01.618 lap, which was just half a second shy of the lead Peugeot.
It was Marc... Read More |
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Auto Racing: Grand-Am Brumos Racing Just Needs to Find Reliablty |
| 5/1/2008 11:12:02 AM |
Auto racing Grand-Am’s Brumos Racing’s Nos 58 – 59 Porsche-Riley Daytona Prototype are on the edge of returning to the podium - if not winning outright they have been fast but not nearly reliably enough.
At VIR this past weekend the No. 58, with David Donohue at the wheel, pulled into the pits with the car "incapable of putting power to the pavement," according to... Read More |
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Auto Racing: Fittipaldi Joins Team Modena Aston Martin LM GT1 |
| 5/1/2008 10:45:43 AM |
 Auto racing Team Modena have added the hugely experienced Christian Fittipaldi to their driver lineup for June's Le Mans 24-Hour race, where the rapid Brazilian will join Antonio Garcia and Liz Halliday in the team's LM GT1 class Aston Martin DBR9. Prior to the French endurance classic, Fittipaldi will contest next month's Valencia, Spain, round of the Le Mans Series, a... Read More |
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Auto Racing: Volkswagen's New Scirocco Will Race Nurburgring 24 Hour |
| 5/1/2008 10:42:12 AM |
 Volkswagen is pumping up the badass for the racing version of its new Scirocco sport-hatch. VW will be campaigning a race-prepped version of its latest release at the Nurburgring 24 hour race in the 2-liter turbo category in which a GTI took victory last year.
The Scirocco racer will use the same 300-hp TFSI mated to Volkswagen's paddle-shifted DSG, a set-up which, in... Read More |
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Auto Racing: ALMS De Ferran Team To Debut At Miller Motorsports Park |
| 5/1/2008 10:37:07 AM |
| Auto racing De Ferran Motorsports’ debut in the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) is getting closer and closer each day. The newest member of the Acura LMP2 Motorsports stable will make its highly anticipated first start at next week’s Larry H. Miller Dealerships Utah Grand Prix presented by the Grand and Little America Hotels. So what’s going through team owner and driver... Read More |
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Auto Racing: DTM Audi A4 Dominated The Second Race Of The Season |
| 4/21/2008 3:35:21 PM |
 Auto racing Audi triumphs at Oschersleben as well Second race, second triumph: the new Audi A4 DTM could not be beaten in its second race either. One week after the 1-2-3 exploit at Hockenheim, Timo Scheider and Martin Tomczyk clinched a commanding 1-2 victory for Audi at the Motorsport Arena Oschersleben.
By claiming the maiden victory of his DTM career, Scheider has taken... Read More |
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