IT SAYS A LOT about a company when its CEO slides behind the wheel of one of its race cars for a bit of wheel-to-wheel action. It says even more when the CEO helps pilot that car to victory in the world’s most grueling endurance race.

Dr Ulrich Bez, the dynamic leader of one of Britain’s [...]

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MANTHEY RACING HAS secured its fourth successive win at the Nurburgring 24 Hour, its Porsche 911 GT3 RSR team crossing the line ahead of Abt Sportsline’s Audi R8 LMS.
The team of Timo Bernhard, Marc Lieb, Romain Dumas and Marcel Tiemann profited from the reliability of their Porsche as rivals fell by the wayside, to complete [...]

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When Lexus announced last month that its LF-A prototype enduro racer would be making a return to the ADAC Nurburgring 24-Hour, we got a sneak preview of the new livery that would be replacing last year’s oh-so-drab matte black paint scheme.

Now we can gaze upon it in all its two-tone glory, a few days before [...]

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It was only last week that we learnt that the ‘always in development never on sale’ Lexus LF-A was heading back to the ‘Ring to compete in the Nurburgring 24-hour endurance race in May.

The latest news is that incoming Toyota President, Akio Toyoda (grandson of the company’s founder) will be enjoying some wheel time during [...]

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Aston Martin will be lining up on the grid of the 37th ADAC Nürburgring 24-hour enduro with its latest model, the V12 Vantage.

The race will form part of final testing for the V12 Vantage, which was first shown at this year’s Geneva Motor Show and expected to be on sale a little later this year.

Race [...]

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Remember that LF-A racecar that was spotted around the Nurburgring not so long ago? Well, it’s already begun competing in preliminary events in the ADAC Rundstrecken Trophy Endurance series and we’ve now got some video for you of it racing wheel-to-wheel around the famous German circuit.

The LF-A managed to place 77th overall in the Saturday’s [...]

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Lexus’s IS-F is without doubt the brand’s performance flagship (at least until the LF-A arrives), but the presence of this taped-up prototype at the Nurburgring yesterday has already generated plenty of speculation on not only what this car is for, but also what level of performance lurks beneath its skin.

While it has an oddly-bulging [...]

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Aston Martin have announced that they will be defending their 2007 GT1 title at Le Mans with two DBR9’s kitted out in the blue and orange Gulf Oil livery, that for me at least brings images of the Ford GT40 to mind. The two AM DBR9’s are looking to recreate Gulf’s first victory at Le [...]

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Mazda are moving all of their “good stuff” over to North America in time for the 2008 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS), to be held in Detroit from January 13. Mazda fans will be keen to see the heavily revised RX-8 in the flesh for the first time, along with radical new Furai “environmental [...]

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