World Endurance Championship 2016

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John Booth and Graeme Lowdon will return to racing in 2016 as Manor Motorsport enter the World Endurance Championship. The team has no association with the F1 team known as Manor Racing.

Manor Motorsport was set up by Booth in 1990 and the team have a long history of success in junior formulae.
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Jackie Chan becomes Le Mans team owner
Chan is a founding partner in the BAXI DC Racing team that dominated the LMP3 class of the Asian Le Mans Series in the 2015/16 season
The team will campaign an Alpine A460-Nissan in LMP2, again with Cheng and Tung as two of the drivers
http://www.motorsport.com/lemans/news/m ... er-671979/

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Porsche 2015 engine

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Does the intake plenum inlet (purple with red cover) cross the right cylinder bank :?:

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matt21
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I believe, that the intake piping is incorporated into the block.

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World Endurance Championship’s official pre-season test
Circuit Paul Ricard on Friday and Saturday 25/26th March
29 of the 32 teams will take part..., entry list... http://www.fiawec.com/wpphpFichiers/1/1 ... 010316.pdf

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Nelson Piquet Jr to race for Rebellion Racing at Le Mans
he will partner Nicolas Prost and Nick Heidfeld in the #12 Rebellion R-One LMP1
along with the 24 hour race, he will also take part in the WEC official test,
and both the 6 Hours of Silverstone and the 6 Hours of Spa races
http://www.fiawec.com/en/news/nelson-pi ... _3776.html

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The front BHH is pretty interesting
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The WEC teams are really getting their monies worth out of that tin of grey paint.
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There is a lot of air going trough the car.... Damn... What a machine....
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Porsche has revealed their 2016 contender:http://www.motorsport-total.com/wec/fot ... 1/16por919

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And here is the Toyota.
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Blimey, do they want to paint the grass run-offs, flags and gravel traps grey with a flash of red as well? WEC viewers might as well get a black and white TV.

If they want to attract more viewers it might help to have the cars slightly distinguishable from each other.
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Facts Only wrote:Blimey, do they want to paint the grass run-offs, flags and gravel traps grey with a flash of red as well? WEC viewers might as well get a black and white TV.

If they want to attract more viewers it might help to have the cars slightly distinguishable from each other.
I thought the Black-greyish-reddish cars were only a F1 trend...It seems it's an epidemic! :wtf: