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While this year's 24 Hours of Le Mans ended up being a bit of a disappointment from a purely competitive standpoint thanks to the early retirement of the +TOYOTA s and the cancellation of the Peugeot race program earlier this year, it was not a total waste. In fact it was quite a strong demonstration [...] While +Audi International has justifiably recieved plenty of credit for today's victory at Le Mans with the R18 etron some congratulations should also go to +Porsche and especially the +Williams F1 team Williams and its Williams Hybrid Power subsidiary actually created the electro-mechanical flywheel system for F1 cars. In 2010 Williams licensed the system to [...] Worker bee Google+: View post on Google+ Post imported by Google+Blog. Created By Daniel Treadwell. Busy bee Google+: View post on Google+ Post imported by Google+Blog. Created By Daniel Treadwell. One of the real highlights of the 2012 24 Hours of Le Mans was the +Nissan DeltaWing. With a chassis designed by Ben Bowlby and built by Dan Gurney's All American Racers, it was powered by a production based Nissan four cylinder engine and campaigned by +Highcroft Racing The car ultimately fell victim to an [...] And it's all done at Le Mans, the two Audi R18 e-tron quattro hybrids took the checkered flag followed by one of the R18 ultras for the P1 and overall victory. That makes Audi the first manufacturer to win Le Mans with a direct injected gasoline engine, a diesel, and now a hybrid. In LMP2, [...] Early morning at Le Mans Audi R18 e-tron quattro #2 (Audi Sport Team Joest), Dindo Capello (I), Tom Kristensen (DK), Allan McNish (GB)
Google+: View post on Google+ Post imported by Google+Blog. Created By Daniel Treadwell. [...] Over the past 13 years, +Audi International have become experts at first finishing and then finishing first with 10 overall victories in the previous 12 races (11 if you count the 2003 Bentley) and they are well on track to do it again with less than 90 minutes to go. Alan McNish just set the [...] Under the rules at Le Mans if a car has an incident on the track, as long as the driver can get it back to the pits, the crew can fix it up and get it back into the race. The limitation there of course is that the driver has to get the car back [...] |
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