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Toyota has decided to enter its only sports car in the Nurburgring 24 hours Endurance Race. By that I mean that Toyota has decided to let its luxury brand Lexus compete. As such, the actually amazing production version of the Lexus LFA will compete in the above mentioned race, prior to this; Lexus had twice entered the Nurburgring 24 hours with development mules competing in the prototype category. Now the full fledged production version will do the same. The cars will be prepared by Gazoo racing and will be driven by a total of four Japanese and three German drivers that have GT racing and endurance driving experience. The production Lexus LFA has a 552 bhp mid-mounted V10 engine which sounds really unique, and is capable of 0-100 km/h in 3.7 seconds and a top speed of around 320 km/h. I wonder how much modification will go into the car as in endurance racing, reliability is paramount. Maybe the power output will remain the same, with additional oil coolers for the rear differential and gearbox. The other major change might be to the gearing, making it suited for racing and partly fuel economy as its an endurance race. Refueling, tire change as well as driver changing stops play a main role in endurance racing too. Now who are Gazoo Racing you may ask. It seems that Gazoo Racing is a Japanese tuner with a Toyota specific tuning business. They have entered Lexus/Toyota Altezzas in 2007, the Lexus IS250 in 2008 and the prototype LFAs in 2009 in the Nurburgring 24hour races So far their road specials were/are limited to the Toyota IQ and the Vitz in Japan. They are experts in

Porsche have accused Nissan of providing false information that the GTR could go round the challenging Nurburgring in 7 minutes 29 seconds. They were so sure that the GTR could not do it that Porsche actually bought one! I know some might have heard about this before, but I managed to find a video which may prove Porsche's claim true that the GTR didn't actually complete a lap as fast as Nissan claimed it did, or that their test drivers suck. The main reason why Porsche was so adamant that the GTR could not have possibly achieved that time is because the GTR was just 1 second off the time of the Porsche Carrera GT which is close to hypercar status. The GTR in the hands of the Porsche test driver did a time of 7 minutes 54 seconds. Moreover, the Porsche 911 Turbo and the GT2 were also faster than the GT-R: the turbo managed to achieve a time of 7 minutes and 38 seconds while the GT2 finished the lap in 7 minutes and 34 seconds. And the Germans could never accept being defeated on home soil. So here it is. The epic battle of the stopwatch begins the moment you click 'Play'. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p45OuyWhUfE&feature=player_embedded

this must be one of the most interesting qualifying i seen so far this season with changing condition every now and then also, can u believe that Force India of Sutil is starting from 7th well done! and more pleasant surprise for Webber to have his 1st pole of his F1 career! also, it's nice to see McLaren back nearing to the front. with the weather uncertain tomorrow, it should be a bloody interesting race on Sunday! 1. Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1:32.230 2. Rubens Barrichello Brawn-Mercedes 1:32.357 3. Jenson Button Brawn-Mercedes 1:32.473 4. Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 1:32.480 5. Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:32.616 6. Heikki Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes 1:33.859 7. Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 1:34.316 8. Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:34.574 9. Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari 1:34.710 10. Nelson Piquet Brazil Renault 1:34.803 11. Nick Heidfeld BMW Sauber 1:42.310 12. Fernando Alonso Renault 1:42.318 13. Kazuki Nakajima Williams-Toyota 1:42.500 14. Jarno Trulli Toyota 1:42.771 15. Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota 1:42.859 16. Robert Kubica BMW Sauber 1:32.190 17. Sebastien Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:32.251 18. Giancarlo Fisichella Force India-Mercedes 1:32.402 19. Timo Glock Toyota 1:32.423 20. Sebastien Bourdais Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:33.559