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VIDEO: With F1 program scrapped, where will Toyota Motorsports land next?

As Toyota president Akio Toyoda announced the withdrawal of his company from the Formula One World Championship, he reiterated Toyota's commitment to motorsport competition. But while this may have been pure lip-service, the Japanese automaker has a long history in racing, leading to speculation over where Toyota could land next. According to Toyoda: Motor sports remain an important means of personalizing the automobile in the eyes of customers. Motor sports also remain an important means of cultivating human resources and our R&D ... Read more →

American Le Mans Series consolidates racing classes for 2010 Noah Joseph

The American Le Mans Series is responding to economic conditions and the decline in the diversity of racing machinery on the grid by changing up the racing classes in its ranks for next season. ...

Spyker preparing to enter GT1 with competition-spec C8 Aileron? Noah Joseph

Spyker may have dropped out of Formula One, but they haven't lost that competitive spirit. Even before selling its F1 team to Kingfisher's Vijay Mallya, who rechristened the squad as Force India, ...

Reiter Engineering developing GT1-spec Lamborghini Murcielago SV Noah Joseph

- Some automakers run their racing programs in-house, and some choose to out-source. While its principal rival falls under the former, Lamborghini opts for the latter, giving its blessing to ...

New York: Chevrolet Corvette GT1 Championship Edition gets called to the carpet Chris Paukert

Back in February, General Motors circulated a few studio shots of a new Chevrolet Corvette GT1 Championship Edition package, but the New York Auto Show is the first time we're coming face-to-face ...

FIA GT1 Nissan GT-R revealed in full with 600-hp V8 7 months ago on Autoblog

After announcing its intention to run in the FIA Championship with a GT-R, Nissan has finally released a host of technical details and race-dates for its GT1-spec R35. The GT-R will make its debut at Silverstone on May 3rd and will campaign in three more races in 2009 before its all-out assault ...

Nissan confirms GT-R headed for FIA GT racing in 2009, 2010 9 months ago on Autoblog

Nissan has announced its Global Motorsports Activities for 2009 and it looks like we'll be seeing the GT-R campaign in the FIA-GT1 category earlier than expected. Initial reports claimed that Nissan would begin offering LeMans-spec racers to privateer teams for the 2010 FIA-GT1 season, but in ...

Chevy reportedly working on Corvette GT-1 Championship Edition 10 months ago on Autoblog

Last weekend, Corvette owners were let in on a limited edition Vette in the pipeline: the Corvette GT-1 Edition. Created to celebrate Corvette's last hurrah in the current GT1 class this year, the car is actually more like a rolling trophy than your typical paint-and-decals collector's edition car. ...

Corvette Racing just about ready to start building GT2 C6.R 1 year ago on Autoblog

2009 will be a transition year for the American Le Mans Series as the GT1 class all but disappears after the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The Corvette Racing team announced a few weeks ago that it will switch from GT1 to the GT2 class. In an ALMS conference call, program manager Dough Fehan revealed that ...

ALMS could scrap GT1 class as Corvette drops to GT2 1 year ago on Autoblog

GT1-class racing is one of the most hotly contested in Europe, with cars like the Aston Martin DBR9 and Maserati MC12 competing among others for top honors in the Le Mans Series and FIA GT Championship. Here in the American Le Mans Series, however, officials are considering the possibility that ...

Corvette C6.R returning to ALMS in 2008 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click image for high-res gallery Earlier this fall there was speculation that Chevrolet would withdraw the Corvette Racing team from the 2008 race season due to a lack of competition. Throughout most of the 2007 ALMS season, the two bright yellow C6.Rs were the only GT1 cars on the track. Corvette ...

Corvette C6-R program could be a victim of its own success 2 years ago on Autoblog

Click the C6R for a gallery of Detroit GP ALMS race action Ever since the end of the factory Dodge Viper racing program, the American Le Mans Series GT1 class has been dominated by the factory C5R and C6R Corvettes. For a while they were challenged by assorted Panoz GTR1s, privateer Vipers, Ferrari ...

VIDEO: VW Golf + Hayabusa engine = Holy Crap! 2 years ago on Autoblog

var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/motorsport/VW_GOLF_with_Hayabusa_Engine_WOW'; The Suzuki Hayabusa is one of the fastest things I have ever seen in motion. A friend riding his was in front of me once at a stop, and the road ahead of him was long, straight, and wide open. The only way to describe ...

Aston Martin Racing brings former F1 driver to Le Mans team 2 years ago on Autoblog

Click image to enlarge Under its new ownership, Aston Martin continues to forge ahead into a brighter independent future. In addition to the production announcement of the Rapide and the rumors of an upcoming "DBX", Aston is not missing a beat on its racing agenda, which should come as no surprise ...

Chicago Preview: Ron Fellows ALMS GT1 Champion Corvette Z06 2 years ago on Autoblog

click above image to view 15 for high-resolution images Ron Fellows history with the current Corvette Racing team dates back to its beginnings, when he helped develop the original world-beating C5.R. Fellows drove the C5.R to its first race victory in 2000 and won the American Le Mans Series ...

Porsche GT1 development details 3 years ago on Autoblog

Autocar has cobbled together what we know about the GT1 so far to create this rendering of what the Bugatti Veyron-beater might look like when it surfaces sometime in 2009. The info we already know hasn't changed much. The car will be a 950-bhp, street-legal version of Porsche's future Le Mans ...

Porsche GT1 to emerge as Veyron-slayer 3 years ago on Autoblog

The Bugatti Veyron is the gold standard for supercars. There are but a few cars as fast and none as opulent or expensive as the seven-figure exotic. According to Autocar magazine, Porsche may be getting ready to go head to head with Bugatti using a roadgoing version of the Le Mans racer it is ...






Autoblog Podcast #155: 'Twas the night before LA...

Chris, Dan, and Editor Paukert go over some LA Preview action and quietly whoop it up on the podcast.

 
 

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