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Le Mans and McQueen
“I don’t think there is any race driver that could really tell you why he races. But I think he could probably show you.” Steve McQueen got it spot on. That point of driving on the limit in harmony with the machine is indescribable in words. It seems
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Scene Setting
The record books show that Toyota has won the opening three races of the FIA World Endurance Championship, held at Sebring in March, and Portimão and Spa, both in April. However, this year teams face the challenge not only from the Glickenhaus privat
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TAMEing The Beast
With the eyes of the world increasingly focusing on sustainability, Michelin has taken a major step into the digital world and developed the Le Mans Hypercar tyres completely in digital format for the first time. Each of the 16 top-class prototypes w
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In The Family Way
Ferrari has come into the FIA World Endurance Championship with a bang, bagging podium finishes in the first three races of the 2023 season, and almost netting two pole positions in the process. Only a track limits infringement at Spa, where Antonio
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Pushrod Special
La Sarthe will echo to the sound of a pushrod, Detroit V8 in June, as this year’s Garage 56 entry, a NASCAR Next Gen, thunders down the Hunaudières. As result of the IMSA (owned by NASCAR) and the ACO / FIA pact that has seen the LMDH and Le Mans Hyp
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Age Of Excess
From the outside, Electramotive Engineering’s small shops in El Segundo, California might appear modest. Not many onlookers would believe that some of the greatest cars in IMSA history were crafted inside its walls, but Electramotive’s 35 employees p
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Running Up That Hill
Someone once memorably described the British Hillclimb Championship (BHC) as ‘Formula 1 up the garden path’, which was quite close to the truth a few decades ago when F1 and F2 cars and other assorted motorsport exotica would race up the very narrow,
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Top Fuel
As the appetite for a more environmentally conscious existence grows, so too does the greenwashing terminology. In racing, this has taken the form of sustainable, renewable, eco-friendly, green, synthetic, advanced e-fuels, which are now appearing in
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Thinking Inside The ’box
Transmissions in the traditional sense may be rapidly disappearing from road cars with the march of electrification, but even EVs often need some form of reduction gearing from motor to wheel. In racing though, the ICE is still king and, as such, mul
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Front Loaded
One of the ingredients that added to the anticipation of the 2015 24-hours of Le Mans was the participation of the Nissan GT-R LM Nismo. A lot was written about this car going into the event, mostly very optimistic. The consensus was the car would do
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Booming System
The opening round of the GT World Challenge Endurance at Monza, Italy in April saw a grid of 55 GT3 cars, the largest number since the series began in 2016. For the Spa 24 hours at the end of June, more than 70 cars have been entered, making it one o
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Knock Knock
The move to sustainable motoring, and motor racing, has taken an unexpected turn in the last few weeks, with car manufacturers in the UK asking the British government to re-negotiate an element of the Brexit deal to allow them to meet European target
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PIT CREW Editor Andrew Cotton@RacecarEd@RacecarEngineer Email [email protected] Sub editor Mike Pye Art editor Barbara Stanley Technical consultant Peter Wright Contributors Mike Breslin, Lawrence Butcher, Gemma Hatton,

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