Driver and crew changes are a normal part of life in the Verizon IndyCar Series, and with Ed Carpenter Racing's No. 21 Chevy program both are new in 2017 as JR Hildebrand fills the seat and former Audi LMP1 engineer Justin Taylor takes over the engineering duties.ECR's decision to hire...

Joest Racing, the team behind Audi's all-conquering Le Mans program, is considering a switch to North America and IMSA's WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Prototype class after its German partners withdrew from the World Endurance Championship at the end of 2016. "It's very interesting of course," Joest technical director Ralf Jüttner told...

Sports car fans will suffer another pang from Audi's surprise exit from the World Endurance Championship following the release of these images of a scale model of what would have been the 2017 version of the company's R18 LMP1 prototype.Audi's former LMP1 drivers Filipe Albuquerque, Oliver Jarvis and Loic Duval...

The Toyota Hybrid LMP1 team came tantalizingly close to earning the Japanese giant's first overall win at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2014, and after a thorough drubbing last year by Porsche and Audi, the squad has pinned its hopes on an all-new challenger to restore its status...

Porsche's Neel Jani set the bar with a lap of 3m22.011s to pace the 60-car field during Wednesday's opening practice session. The Swiss driver was one of many to lead the four-hour outing as intermittent rain affected the outright pace for most of the session, but with the final hour...

Audi's progression up the megajoule scale has provided three-time Le Mans winner Andre Lotterer with a healthy appreciation for how far the German marque's R18 models have come since its first energy recovery system was deployed.2013's R18 e-tron quattro featured a 2 megajoule system – the lowest output allowed for...

We can talk about the high-tech electronics and cutting-edge aerodynamics found throughout the LMP1-Hybrid cars produced by Audi, Porsche, and Toyota, and we can marvel at the rest of the mechanical wizardry contained within today's Le Mans racers, but don't lets the gizmos and gadgets overshadow one simple fact: All...

According to three-time Le Mans winner Allan McNish, Audi's brand-new R18 chassis, which incorporates a move to the more powerful 6 megajoule energy recovery system class, could be the hot ticket to knock Porsche off its perch.The veteran Audi man, who retired after the 2013 season where he scored his...

Amateur footage of the new Audi R18 LMP1 prototype testing at Sebring International Raceway.

The addition of the Nurburgring to the 2015 FIA WEC calendar replacing Interlagos added a 10th circuit to the WEC history books since 2012. It’s also a circuit that most of the current WEC teams have very little data for, so the opportunity to test there is something that many...