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Audi has claimed another resounding triumph at the 24 Hours of Le Mans as Andre Lotterer, Benoit Treluyer and Marcel Fassler repeated their 2011 triumph in the 80th running of sports car racing’s greatest event.
The trio led a 1-2 sweep for the new e-tron and topped an all-Audi podium. It was a truly historic victory, as the German manufacturer became the first  … More
How one couple went 3,500 miles in a Morgan 3 Wheeler coast to coast
(Britain’s Morgan Motor Co. still builds cars much as it did a century ago — by hand, with wood and metal frames. To promote the revived Morgan 3 Wheeler — a open-air, $40,000 tricycle based on a 1911 design but powered by a modern 80-hp V-Twin engine — company chief and grandson of the founder Charles Morgan, along with his wife Kiera drove a Morgan 3 Wheeler across America last month in the Gumball 3000 rally. This is their story of open roads, gawkers and Death Valley droptop driving. — Ed.)Â
The experiment was to prove that a Morgan 3 Wheeler can cross the United States with ease, a journey of some 3,500 miles in all. To follow a process I take a Morgan 3 Wheeler after final inspection, just as it would leave the factory before being sent to a dealer or a customer. This is deliberate — I do not want to drive a specially prepared car … Pictures and more
Anthony Davidson gets together with F458 Italia driven by Perrazini, goes airborne and crashes hard into the wall. Both drivers got out of the car on their own, Davidson is in hospital with two broken vertebrae