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REBELLION RACING WEC COTA PREVIEW

Following the long summer break after Le Mans 24 Hours, REBELLION Racing is back to race in the fourth round of the FIA World Endurance Championship that will be held at the Circuit Of The Americas near Austin, Texas.


Last year's race was an afternoon event, this year the organizers are laying on a race that will run into the night, starting at 5pm local time and going through to 11pm, thus adding a little spice to a promising and exciting 6 hour race.

From this race event the two Rebellion R-One Toyotas will be fitted with a new « high downforce » aero package that includes new front end bodywork and specific new headlights and an upgraded rear end to suit the requirements of the tracks in the second half of the FIA WEC season.

REBELLION Racing is confident after their glorious campaign at Le Mans 24 Hours last June, where they finished in 4th place overall, leaving the two factory Porsche 919 Hybrid cars behind them.
The Swiss team will try to get another strong result in Texas, as close as possible to the podium as the team secured a 4th place overall finish last year during the first edition of the 6 Hours of COTA.

REBELLION Racing is looking forward to meet the competition of the Lotus team which will make their race debut in LMP1-L this year at COTA. This competition will provide an extra incentive to the whole team but will not divert them from their main goal that is making the cars as competitive as possible to target the highest positions overall and not only within the LMP1-L cars.

The driver line up remain unchanged as Nick Heidfeld, Nicolas Prost and Mathias Beche will share driving duties in the Rebellion R-One Toyota #12 and Andrea Belicchi, Fabio Leimer and Dominik Kraihamer in the sister car #13.

Bart Hayden – REBELLION Racing Team manager :
“It's been a long break since the last race at Le Mans, but we have used the time to prepare for the second half of the season. When the new Rebellion R-One cars first hit the track, they were in a configuration best suited to the demands of Le Mans, but now for the sprint races we need a little more downforce, so we've got an update and are looking forward to seeing how that works. It's nice to be back in the USA, REBELLION Racing has achieved some very good results racing in the USA, so we will be aiming high and are looking forward to getting out on track. The addition of the Lotus car to the LMP1-L pack is very welcome, we hope that we can have a good race with them.”


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DOUBLE DUTY

This weekend’s Lone Star Le Mans event at Circuit of The Americas will be a busy one for Tommy Milner, as the Corvette Racing driver is set to take part in both TUDOR United SportsCar Championship and FIA World Endurance Championship races.

http://sportscar365.com/lemans/wec/m...-team-america/

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IMSA CTSC GS-class qualifying here: http://www.imsa.com/camera/sportscar...e/race-central

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LMP1 first practice CoTA
1 Audi__Sport #2
2 Audi__Sport #1
3 PorscheRaces #20
4 Toyota_Hybrid #7
5 Toyota_Hybrid #8

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Stunning skies over the COTA paddock:

[Flying Ace]

is there a broadcast for WEC qualifying and race?

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Originally Posted by Flying Ace

is there a broadcast for WEC qualifying and race?

http://live.fiawec.com/


but for the race (they're still in FP's) go here:
http://www.livestream.com/fiawec

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is it free?

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Originally Posted by Flying Ace

is it free?

Absolutely!

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One of the key underlying principles of the FIA World Endurance Championship is the provision of entertainment: for its rapidly growing global fan base and also for its multi-national grid of top class entrants who are all competing for World Championship titles. Teamwork is another key element of endurance racing – if teams of two or three drivers race together, then why not have more than one qualify the car.

A new system of qualifying was introduced for 2013 which sees cars on track at all times during the specified sessions, providing excitement, tension and entertainment for spectators and fans around the world. In the past, teams have for strategic reasons often tended to delay their attempts to set the fastest lap times, and the result has been grandstands full of fans watching…nothing.

The regulations state that two nominated drivers – the nominations being entirely at the discretion of the team – from each car crew must set at least two timed laps during qualifying. The average of the four best lap times (the best two of each driver) will serve as the reference time for establishing the grid.

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Corvette is really holding off that Ferrari well!

[Flying Ace]

So jealous I am not there. I didn't plan my weekend very well. Wife is gone for a bday party, my college team has bye week....I should be in Austin for this....

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GTLM holding off so well right now....both of them!!!!!!!!




Konica Minolta just had some contact, doesn't look for them


That Viper SRT though...wow...fast

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Fall-Line and John Edwards Racing won for GS!!

Good job, boys.

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Target Chip Ganassi!!!! That was awesome. Pruett P1 and then Rahal for P2
and what? Core Autosport for PC class...Nice!

Bomarito wins GTLM


P: #01 CGRTeams
GTLM: #93 Team SRT
GTD: #33 Viper Exchange
PC: #25 8starmotor

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Look how GTLM did...BMW was a few positions down

[Flying Ace]

Viper team has been strong the last 4 races.

[DieGrüneHölle]

Had a great race weekend, WEC night race was a lot of fun. Hope they continue to run it at night. The quick downpour was crazy, hydroplaning cars everywhere. They should run the F1 race at night.

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Some pics of the BMWs from the Tudor race last weekend:

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Time to start talking about the next round of the FIA WEC series.



Here is the track, Fuji Speedway:
http://www.fsw.tv/english/guide/index.html

SCHEDULE

Free Practice 1
Fri 10th October - 11 h 00

Free Practice 2
Fri 10th October - 15 h 30

Free Practice 3
Sat 11th October - 09 h 30

Qualifying Practice
Sat 11th October - 13 h 20

Race
Sun 12th October - 11 h 00




Oak Racing enters Morgan LMP2 in 6 Hours of Fuji
Read about it here: http://www.sportscarillustrated.com/...s14P_1548.html

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I'm assuming you guys saw this great shot!


#9 Lotus CLM P1/01 - AER: Christophe Bouchut, James Rossiter, Pierre Kaffer goes up in flames