Porsche opted for a return to top-flight sports car racing over Formula 1 because it has more relevance to road cars according to its head of R&D Wolfgang Hatz.
The firm will enter the top LMP1 sports car racing category in 2014. The car will be a hybrid, and the firm has already said that there has been a technology transfer both ways between the race car and its Porsche 918 Spyder road car that will go on sale later this year as a rival to the Ferrari LaFerrari and McLaren P1Â Â …Â More
The stresses of driving a Formula 1 car are impossible to replicate during a normal workout – unless you happen to have a custom-built ‘car gym’.
Ferrari has revealed its secret weapon in the battle for the podium – a gym machine that it claims can replicate the stresses an F1 driver goes through during a race.
Built by Technogym, it reproduces the  … Pictures and more
Mark Webber has signed a five-year deal to switch from formula one to Le Mans-style sports car racing from 2014.
That is the claim of Radio Le Mans, citing information from the paddock of Sunday’s Chinese grand prix in Shanghai, where the 36-year-old Australian endured   … More