The 30 FIA World Endurance Championship entries at the Mobil 1 12 Hours of Sebring may represent less than half the total field, but will stand out more than normal as the influx of European teams and manufacturers descends on the track for its first race of the new championship. We’ll split the field breakdown, simply, into prototypes (LMP1 and LMP2) and GTE (Pro and Am)Â Â …Â More
This stunning race car has become the world’s most expensive Porsche after it fetched a $4.4 million (£2.8m) at auction.
The 1973 Porsche 917 / 30 Can-Am was so fast that the series it was designed to be raced in was disbanded because rivals couldn’t compete with it.
It was one of four cars built by the factory, with just two of these behemoths, which boasted more than 1,000bhp, in private hands … Pictures and more
Supercar challenge race. A big fight with a GT3 which was a lot faster on the straights very hard to overtake with a lot less hp in the Bmw 1 series
The car-against-motorcycle racing trope has been around for a while, with now- predictable results: Motorcycles are straight-line monsters, while the stability of four wheels gives the cornering advantage to cars. Leave it to France’s Moto-Journal to ponder whether this is still true on snowpack in the middle of winter.
Yes, really, in two classes: Two Yamahas — an Open-class R1 superbike and a YZF450 dirtbike — pitted against a Porsche 911 GT3 RS and Mitsubishi Evo  … More