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Marc van der Straten dies at 78 after five decades building a racing empire on two wheels and four
Marc van der Straten died at his home in Switzerland on July 5, at age 78. If your motorsport diet is heavy on GT3 and Blancpain results, you know his name from a BMW Z4 that tore through the Spa 24 ...
It's the final day of racing at the 2025 Le Mans Classic. Watch the live stream here for coverage of the world's biggest ...
Legends of Le Mans has attracted its biggest field to date for the Le Mans Classic, with 23 cars entered for its three races around the Circuit des 24 Heures du Mans. This is despite a clash with the ...
Top-tier sports car racing is about to be more accessible than ever, something worth the cost of the more innovative ...
Bill Gibson, the co-founder and driving force behind Zytek Engineering and later Gibson Technology, has passed away after a ...
The fledgling Korean team is taking racing very seriously, and it achieved its goal of finishing the 2026 24 Hours of Le Mans ...
Polyphony Digital will release the major "Hypercar Update" for "Gran Turismo 7" on June 11th. Included are the Gr.1 cars, four real WEC prototypes, and the official Safety Car. The official ...
The inevitable has happened. Alpine will withdraw from the World Endurance Championship and rally-raid at the end of 2026. Alpine joined the Hypercar class in 2021, running a grandfathered LMP1 car ...
Director Erich Joiner had a problem: camera cars were too slow. At least, too slow for his liking. “I always got frustrated when Honda would ask me to shoot something,” he recalls. “I remember ...
Alpine took a first World Endurance Championship victory with its A424 LMDh as Charles Milesi, Paul-Loup Chatin and Ferdinand Habsburg came through to win a chaotic Fuji 6 Hours. The #35 triumphed by ...
This complexity goes a long way to explaining why the LMP2000 remained unseen for the better part of 20 years, save for some grainy spy shots from that test at Porsche’s Weissach research and ...
In the 2000s and 2010s, Audi owned sports car racing. The brand won the 24 Hours of Le Mans 13 times in 15 years, enough to make the brand the second-winningest marque in the history of the race. The ...
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