Allan McNish, Dindo Capello and Tom Kristensen have walked away from the 57th 12 Hours of Sebring with the gold trophy - the all-new Audi R15 TDI’s first competition victory.

The R15 now joins the R8 and R10 in having won its debut race.

After qualifying second the #2 Audi R15 TDI battled furiously with one of [...]

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As the 2009 European and North American racing series are getting set for kick-off, teams are now starting to unveil their new cars and new liveries (and, of course, spruiking their wares).

Aston Martin has jumped in on the action with the debut of its new LMP1 car at the Paul Ricard Circuit in France.

For the [...]

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Peugeot Automobiles Australia today announced a special limited-edition 207 HDi "Le Mans Series" - on sale now in Australian showrooms. But you’ll have to be quick if you want to bag one: there are only 75 heading this way (out of a global production-run of 2000 units.) With Peugeot’s potent [...]

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As part of its programme to reduce the fuel consumption and emissions of its cars by 40 percent by 2012, Ferrari have engineered an F430 that runs on E85 fuel – a blend of 85 percent bio-renewable ethanol and 15 percent petrol. Dubbed the Ferrari F430 Spider BioFuel, it was revealed earlier this week at [...]

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GM have announced that Corvette Racing will be powered by E85 ethanol for the 2008 American Le Mans Series (E85 Indy pace car pictured). E85 ethanol is an 85 percent ethanol 15 percent petrol blend which features a higher octane rating than straight petrol, a fact that is not lost on the Corvette Racing team [...]

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Due for its official unveiling in Detroit this week, the Mazda Furai Concept (Furai means “Sound of the Wind”) is based on an American Le Mans Series Courage C65 chassis and uses a Mazda triple rotor engine that produces 336kW/450hp when run on E100 ethanol.

Click through to see a video of the Furai on the [...]

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Aston Martin have set out to get us all drooling again…and its worked. Due to be unveiled at next week’s Autosport International Show in Birmingham, Aston Martin have released a sketch of their new Vantage GT2 race car. Based on the Vantage V8 road car, the GT2 racer is designed to operate on either standard [...]

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Just two weeks shy of its Detroit Motor Show unveiling, images of Mazda’s Furai (means “sound of the wind”) have been leaked onto the net. Not your average concept, the Furai is a fully functioning ethanol fuelled racer. Powered by a triple-rotor 20B rotary engine, the Furai has the benefit of close to 336kW/450hp when [...]

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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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