6 March 2018 Archives

Christina Nielsen ready for her third Le Mans

Tuesday March 6th, 2018 Jens Jensen

Christina Nielsen will once again be on the grid, when the green drops for the 24 Hours of Le Mans on 16 June 2018. The double IMSA GTD Champion will have her third start in the prestigious race, but it will be her first start in a Porsche. She will be racing for the Italian Ebimotors team, which won the Michelin Le Mans Cup in 2017, but has advanced to the European Le Mans Series for this season. Fabio Babini will team up with Nielsen, while the third driver isn’t…

Rebellion Racing showing their colours

Tuesday March 6th, 2018 Jens Jensen

Rebellion Racing has shown the colours of their new R13 LMP1 car during the Geneva Motor Show. The choice of colours instantly leads the thoughts towards Audi Sport, but if you look at the car itself, there are clear identical design to the ORECA 07. No wonder, since ORECA have designed and build the car. The Southern France company will have to speed up the process a little, since there is just one month until the Prologue will be run at Paul Ricard, while the season starts for real one…

Porsche 962 debut at Daytona 1984

Tuesday March 6th, 2018Tuesday March 6th, 2018 Jim Casey

The Porsche 956 debuted in 1983, and the factory cars dominated the Le Mans 24 Hours, leading to customer orders for dozens of cars. However, the 956 was not legal to race in the US, as the IMSA GTP rules differed from those of the FIA. The GTP rules called for the driver’s feet to be behind the centerline of the front axle. Knowing the US market was crucial to their success, Porsche built a new variant of the 956 to comply with the IMSA rules, and called it the…