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R15 TDI Plus: 2010 LMP1 R18 TDI: 2011 LMP1 Uses a TDI diesel engine. R18 Ultra: 2012 LMP1 Upgraded, lighter version of R18 TDI R18 e-Tron quattro: 2012 LMP1 Same as R18 Ultra but with a hybrid system powering the front wheels. R18 e-Tron quattro: 2014 LMP1 Retains same name as 2012 model, but completely redesigned for 2014 LMP1 rules. R18 e ...
Prodrive Hunter The Dacia Sandrider is an off-road competition car, built by Dacia together with Prodrive to participate in various competitions in the rally raid . It has been used in the FIA Ultimate T1+ class since the end of 2024, replacing the Prodrive Hunter that it was based on.
Prodrive was founded in 1984 by Ian Parry and David Richards. [citation needed] Prodrive sold its 51% stake in Ford Performance Vehicles to Ford Australia in 2012. Prodrive also founded Ford Performance Racing in 2003, entering the V8 Supercar series in Australia after purchasing Glenn Seton Racing. This was sold in January 2013. [1]
[2] [3] [4] The DBR9 goes from 0 to 60 mph (97 km/h) in 3.4 seconds, and 0 to 100 mph (161 km/h) in 6.4 seconds. For the 2007 24 Hours of Le Mans, Prodrive made modifications to the DBR9 design to not only improve performance, but also to increase driver comfort in the cockpit. Due to new regulations put into place by Le Mans organizers, the ...
The No. 2 Porsche 919 Hybrid of Romain Dumas, Neel Jani and Marc Lieb won two races, including the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and the team's second consecutive World Endurance Drivers' Championship. Hartley and Bernhard won Porsche's first pole position of 2016 in qualifying for the 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps and were joined by Jani and Lieb on the ...
For 1998, in a time when the first proper battery electric cars like the General Motors EV1 were on streets in California along with the first Toyota Prius Hybrids, and about a decade before Formula one and Le Mans racing started considering Hybrids, Panoz reached an agreement with English firm Zytek to develop a hybrid electric motor for the Esperante GTR-1.
ALMS GT2 cars competing at Road America in 2007 Ferrari 488 GTE Evo Porsche 911 RSR-19. Grand Touring Endurance, shortened to GTE, was a set of regulations maintained by the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) and IMSA for grand tourer racing cars used in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, 24 hours of Daytona GTLM, and its associated series.
[3] [4] [5] There were two classes when the series was launched in 1997: Grand Touring 1 (GT1) and Grand Touring 2 (GT2). The GT1 category was dropped following the 1998 season because of rising costs and GT2 was re-branded as GT in 1999. [2] In 2000, the N-GT category was introduced as a secondary category to the GT class. [1]