Long day at the office for FIA WEC

FIA World Endurance Championship teams got a long day at the office, and it wasn’t even their fault. The first round of the year was run at Silverstone, where FIA WEC shares the track with European Le Mans Series, who drives their fourth round. There was unfortunately an accident in their first free practice that demanded so much repair of the barriers, that the first practice for the WEC cars got delayed by twenty minutes. Since the ELMS teams didn’t get much practice this weekend, it got decided that they…

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Dramatic Friday for ELMS at Silverstone

It was a dramatic day for European Le Mans Series at Silverstone in Great Britain. Actually, the first free practice affected the rest of the day, not just for ELMS, but also FIA World Endurance Championship. It wasn’t more than a thirty-minute session in FP1, before Carlin #45 with Jack Manchester had a serious incident in the Stowe corner, at the end of Hangar Straight. The cars come around with about 275 kph, where a defect on the car caused it to continue forward, only slowed down a little. Manchester…

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