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Nicolas Lapierre admits that even without the team's night-time troubles in the 79th edition of the Le Mans 24 Hours earlier this month, it would have been difficult for Oreca to finish any higher than fifth at La Sarthe

Chris Aylett from the Motorsport Industry Association discusses how the sport needs to go green and how the industry as a whole has battled against the recession

While SEAT may have withdrawn from the HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship, a diesel-car will feature on the grid this season after AFM Racing revealed a late entry into the season-opener at Brands Hatch.

Nicolas Minassian has revealed that he is not going to make any predictions about the forthcoming sportscar campaign given what happened to Peugeot in 2008, but he does, he concedes, have one set objective - victory in the race dubbed the hardest in the world to win, the legendary Le Mans 24 Hour

SEAT has confirmed that while the two cars raced by Jason Plato and Darren Turner in the 2008 HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship are available for sale, the TDi engines as raced by the works team in its final year in the series are not part of the package.

1. Jason Plato SEAT Sport UK SEAT Leon TDi 27min 38.560secs M 21 laps 2. Darren Turner SEAT Sport UK SEAT Leon TDi +0.583secs M 3. Tom Chilton Team Halfords Honda Civic +1.364secs

Despite carrying out testing of a 320d away from the race track, BMW Motorsport chief Mario Theissen has admitted that the manufacturer is unlikely to bring the car into the World Touring Car Championship this season.