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Autosport 75: Toyota's Le Mans legend that couldn't win

Somehow the Toyota GT-One contrived never to win a race. Yet the car that moved the goalposts in the GT1 category from which it derived its name might well have triumphed in every one of the three events it contested.

Autosport

Scintillating Stippler stars in super Ferrari at Goodwood

Ford versus Ferrari was sportscar racing’s big draw in the mid-1960s, when American V8 brawn in the form of GT40s eventually established supremacy over the svelte Italian V12 stallions. Ferrari’s 1965 Le Mans 24 Hours victory with the North American Racing Team 250 LM of Masten Gregory and Jochen Rindt…

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A day in the life of racing's most famous watches

The victors of the Rolex 24 at Daytona win the watch inspired by the race. This is how those watches get from Switzerland to the podium.

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Get Your Ass to the Rolex 24

More than two million tuned in to watch a nail-biter the Sunday before last. After BMW’s last-minute drama, a hard-charging Acura prototype nipped after the two leading Penke Porsches until the Rolex 24’s closing moments. In the big sports-car class, a pair of Mustangs podium’d with a chasing Corvette, separating…

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Lotterer: Second WEC crown more prestigious than maiden triumph in 2012

Three-time Le Mans 24 Hours winner Andre Lotterer believes that winning the World Endurance Championship title this year means more than his 2012 triumph with Audi.

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Friday favourite: When an Audi cameo transformed a Le Mans winner’s career

Marco Werner identifies the Audi R8 prototype as the car that changed his career and his life. And he’s not wrong.

Autosport

Magazine: The cost of being an F1 fan

We reveal the cost of being a Formula 1 fan in this week’s Autosport magazine, out today (17 October).How much does it cost to follow F1 in 2024? It’s a complicated question with multiple variables, including where you live and how you like to enjoy your sport, but it’s one…

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Friday favourite: When BMW partners hit the ground running

To make a winning start with a brand-new car and team-mate partnership, everything must go right. But Jorg Muller didn’t especially fancy his chances heading into the 1999 Sebring 12 Hours in the Williams-designed BMW V12 LMR after testing at Homestead was blighted by gearbox problems. “The diff always blew…

Autosport

What to watch at the 2024 Goodwood Revival

Eighteen V8-engined cars take on a dozen Jaguar XK and Porsche ‘sixes’ as the Royal Automobile Club Tourist Trophy Celebration race provides Sunday afternoon’s sensational centrepiece. Tom Ingram, 2022 British Touring Car champion and hot on points leader Jake Hill’s heels in the current title fight, tests his reflexes in…

Autosport

The F1 legend who impressed in a short-lived McLaren partnership

Stefan Johansson drove for 10 different teams in Formula 1 before enjoying a successful IndyCar and sportscar career, capped by victory at Le Mans in 1997 with Tom Kristensen and Michele Alboreto. Now 67, the Swede points to a driver that he only partnered for 16 races, but someone he…

Motorsport

Friday favourite: The F1 legend who impressed in a short-lived McLaren partnership

Autosport

10 things not to miss at the Goodwood Members' Meeting

The great and good of historic racing will descend on Goodwood Motor Circuit this weekend for its first major event of the year.

Autosport

How Japan’s underdog LMP1 helped start Toyota WEC juggernaut

Earlier this month, Toyota wrapped up this year’s World Endurance Championship manufacturers’ crown with another convincing display on home turf at Fuji. It marks the fifth time in a row, and sixth in total, it has come away with the silverware, including the occasions when a teams’ title was awarded…

Autosport

Priaulx wins dramatic TT Celebration race at Goodwood Revival in E-type

The Jaguar E-types had been outgunned by the AC Cobras in dry qualifying and William Paul started the car he shared with Priaulx from 13th.

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2023 Audi R8 Last Drive Review: A Lap To Cap A Lifetime

One last lap in the game-changing Audi supercar brings on a flood of memories.

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The next Danish Le Mans hope seeking to follow in Kristensen's footsteps

Malthe Jakobsen was not even a year old when Tom Kristensen secured his record-equalling sixth victory at the Le Mans 24 Hours in 2004. The Danish endurance legend pulled clear of Jacky Ickx’s tally over the coming years and by 2013 had amassed a remarkable nine in the world’s most…

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100 years and still racing

Last weekend, a record-breaking number of 325,000 spectators witnessed the race of the century that had drivers and teams competing against the Rolex clock at Circuit de la Sarthe in northwestern France.

Autosport

Archive: The mothballed racer that became a double Le Mans winner

Audi didn’t have to look very far when it came to finding a race team for its debut at the Le Mans 24 Hours in 1999. Joest Racing would have been top of anyone’s list after back-to-back victories in the French enduro in 1996 and ’97. But how it came…

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Spirit F1 owner and Le Mans-winning Bentley team boss John Wickham dies aged 73

John Wickham, who co-owned the Spirit Formula 1 team of the early 1980s and oversaw Bentley’s 2003 Le Mans 24 Hours victory, has died aged 73 after a long illness.

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Friday favourite: The surprise choice car of ‘Mr Le Mans’

As the driver most closely associated with the Le Mans 24 Hours, Tom Kristensen might be expected to select one of his winning machines as his favourite car. Not so, when the Dane chatted with Autosport for our ongoing weekly series

Motorsport

TK9 E-SPeeD crowned 2022 World eX Champions

TK9 E-SPeeD from Denmark are the 2022 World eX Champions.

Autosport

Rosenqvist, Neuville, Drugovich join Race of Champions Sweden roster

IndyCar race winner Felix Rosenqvist, WRC frontrunner Thierry Neuville and 2022 FIA F2 champion Felipe Drugovich are among the latest batch of names confirmed for next month's 2023 Race of Champions in Sweden.

Autosport

Button denied first UK victory in 20 years at Goodwood Revival

Jenson Button was denied his first victory on UK soil in over 20 years in the RAC Tourist Trophy at the Goodwood Revival.

Motorsport

Romain Grosjean’s team ACER VERO R8G victorious in French eX Prix

The second season of the World eX Championship is increasingly becoming a duel between Lasse Sørensen and Jiri Toman – and thus also a duel between two very well-known team owners from the real-world: Tom Kristensen and Romain Grosjean.

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Citizen scientists uncover hidden koala population at Heathcote National Park near Sydney

Two citizen scientists have photographed and named nearly 80 previously undocumented koalas on the southern outskirts of Sydney at Heathcote National Park.

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