Everything You Need To Know About Next Weekend's Le Mans 24 Race

You've seen the "spy shot" of the 2014 Porsche Le Mans prototype car. But did you know that new LMP1 is already influencing this year's Le Mans 24? It is, and I'll tell you why. Plus, I'm handicapping this year's LM24 field, by class, for the winning favorites.

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You know, I'm sure he's a nice guy, but people can't stop hating him. Probably because every time it's so funny. And because he has such a friendly demeanor with well-wishers. Here's that picture again:

Vs Caswell's pic, this may not be a full-on smile either, but I think we had 'a moment' [ha]. We WERE talking tires, so that accounts for part of his look -

From Van Der Garde, Sutil Violate Supreme Rules Of Canadian Politeness

DRIVE

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Let's Call THIS 1st Show A ShakeDown, Too

DRIVE

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The programming 'experiment' called ShakeDown Nation gets it's 1st shakedown. And like racing, now it's time to debrief and decide on setup changes.

IndyCar

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How Tony Kanaan Won The Indy 500

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Leading 9 of 12 500's and never winning may make Indy seem like 'dating a flirty bitch', but with this 2013 win Tony Kanaan explains why it now feels like 'a honeymoon at the beginning of a promising relationship'. And then he tells you how it all happened.

Meet The Nürburgring 24 Driver With The "Zeppelin-Sized Balls"

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Meet The Nürburgring 24 Driver With The "Zeppelin-Sized Balls"

Leh Keen may not be a household name, yet. He's the driver whose heroics caused major sphincter-clenching among those who saw his Nürburgring 24 performance in the rain on Driver's Eye this week. Here he is.

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One Insane Lap Of The Nurburgring, Flat Out, In The Rain

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One Insane Lap Of The Nurburgring, Flat Out, In The Rain

There are those legendary films that capture the rush of extreme driving, Climb Dance, C'était un Rendezvous, Faszination. Now we have a new one: Rain Dance.

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Racing

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Mind Of WTCC Salzburgring Qualifying Is Mindless.

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WTCC racer, Tom Coronel, gives his explanation of Slipstreaming for Qualifying. OK. But, then with everyone thinking the same, watch Idiocracy rule. THIS is what racing has become?

DTM

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DTM LIVE on YouTube

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DTM qualifying and racing is available on YouTube - the place where /DRIVE lives - on the YT DTM Channel. BrandHatch is May 18 / 19. Saturday Qualifying went to BMW.

Le Mans

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Viper v Corvette / Kendall v Fehan - TrackDown

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As Tommy Kendall says, "We're like brothers and only WE are allowed to wail on each other". But dammit, on this version of /DRIVE's ShakeDown called TrackDown, there was no smack-talk. There WAS some great insight on Blocking, SandBagging, and both Viper / Corvette heading to Le Mans.

BMW

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ALMS BMW Z4 GTE CarPr0n

BMW

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/DRIVE's ShakeDown from Laguna Seca at the American Le Mans Monterey race 'sneaks' into the BMW RLL team garage to look at the newest car in GTE. On-track video let's you savor the V8 roar.