How do you assemble and build a winning team of drivers for Le Mans? Corvette Racing program manager Doug Fehan gives RACER the scoop.
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Diversity is a good yardstick. The key to Le Mans’ success in influencing real-world motoring technology is diversity, even perversity. For the motor industry, Le Mans remains both a public stage and a sharp-end testbed that they can no longer find anywhere else in motorsport. That function certainly doesn’t exist in F1 any more, because F1 design and the race format are so far removed from everyday issues as to be essentially meaningless. In fact F1 barely does diversity at all any more, except on a molecular level.
The closest F1 came to true freedom in modern guise was the sometime choice between turbocharged and non-turbocharged engines, but it was invariably a financial necessity and long since gone. So what you get now is … More
Chevrolet has announced performance figures for its all-new 2014 Corvette Stingray. Chevrolet’s seventh-generation Corvette is scheduled to go on sale during the third quarter of 2013.
According to Chevy, the 2014 Corvette Stingray equipped with the optional Z51 Performance Package is capable of accelerating from 0-60 in 3.8 seconds, stopping from 60 in … More
Audi Sport driver Allan McNish sits down with RACER and weighs in on the pending arrival of sister Audi brand Porsche in the P1 category in 2014. McNish won his first 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1998 while driving for Porsche.