Last year’s Pacific Northworst 24 Hours of LeMons featured everything from Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and his Rolls-ified BMW 325i to a semi tractor reenacting the copy-machine-murder scene from Office Space. Oh yeah, and some cars went around and around a racetrack all weekend long. This year, the Pacific Northworst race takes place on the weekend [...]

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Denny Hulme James Hunt Jim Hurtubise Gus Hutchison

BMW has revealed some additions to its M Performance parts line for the latest 3- and 5-series sedans, as well as pricing for several parts the company previously announced. To recap, M Performance parts are designed with input from BMW’s M division, and going forward all of the company’s performance parts will be branded as [...]

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Bob Gerard Gerino Gerini Peter Gethin Piercarlo Ghinzani

Alex Wurz and Nicolas Lapierre completed 81 laps of testing with Toyota’s new TS030 chassis at Magny-Cours on Friday as the Japanese manufacturer resumed its hybrid development programme ahead of the Le Mans 24 Hours. Toyota lost weeks of preparation after Lapierre’s testing accident at Paul Ricard last month and was also forced to miss its planned World Endurance Championship race debut at Spa this weekend, after the team’s only available monocoque was destroyed in the crash

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Tony Gaze Geki Olivier Gendebien Marc Gené

Nick Yelloly fended off a late-race charge from Jules Bianchi to win the Formula Renault 3.5 season opener at Aragon.

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Gregory Jack Biffle David Lee Blaney Michael Duane Bliss Kurt Thomas Busch

Mike Rockenfeller set the pace in the second free practice session for this weekend’s Lausitz DTM round as Audis took the top seven positions on Saturday morning. The A5s dominated proceedings with Rosberg driver Filipe Albuquerque and then Abt’s Mattias Ekstrom heading the timesheets during the closing stages of the 90-minute session. Ekstrom’s 1m18.694s lap was not good enough to keep him on top though as Rockenfeller took his Phoenix-run car to the top spot in 1m18.352s with 90 seconds remaining

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Rupert Keegan Eddie Keizan Al Keller Joe Kelly