Zurlinden was a long-time Porsche stalwart, working as an engineer on its LMP1 programme before heading up the Weissach brand's factory GT effort and then becoming Porsche's head of factory motorsport. The 39-year-old Frenchman left Porsche in October and will now join Multimatic's Special Vehicle Operations (MSVO) division, which oversees the engineering company's motorsports activities. “I am really looking forward to my new job and want to thank Larry [Holt] and Multimatic for the trust they have placed in me," Zurlinden said. "Of course, I’ve been following Multimatic in motorsport and outside this field for many years as competitor and/or partner, and it’s something special for me to play a leading role in continuing the company’s success story on and off the race tracks.” Porsche LMDh prototype Photo by: Porsche Last year Porsche and Audi announced they would partner with Multimatic for their prototype return, basing their LMDh hybrids on the next generation … [Read more...] about Zurlinden joins Porsche & Audi LMDh supplier Multimatic
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2023 Porsche LMDh Prototype Hits The Track For The First Time
Race cars are Motorsport.com's specialty, but that's not stopping us from getting excited every now and then about a new track-only machine. Porsche's LMDh prototype certainly fits that bill and we've been keeping an eye on the electrified hypercar from day one. It was originally teased in December 2020 and now the time has come to see it out in the open. The brief video shows the hybrid beast stretching its legs on the Weissach test track. Set to join the FIA World Endurance Championship and the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship in 2023, the unnamed hybrid race car will be operated by Team Penske. Much like Audi's and Lamborghini's LMDh track weapons , it’s going to use an LMP2-based chassis provided by Multimatic. The short clip allows us to hear the combustion engine, which will work with an electric motor to deliver a combined output of 670 horsepower (500 kilowatts). Gallery: Porsche Le Mans Hypercar Prototype 8 Photos … [Read more...] about 2023 Porsche LMDh Prototype Hits The Track For The First Time
McLaren ‘have had conversations’ with Volkswagen
McLaren have been in talks with Volkswagen about a possible collaboration, but Zak Brown says in the “short term and medium term” he is happy sticking with Mercedes. Volkswagen, through either its Audi or Porsche brand, or some reports claim even both, is considering entering Formula 1 in 2026. McLaren is just one team that has been linked to the VW Group, Audi specifically, while Red Bull are said to be in talks with Porsche. According to Sport1 , Audi are keen on purchasing a stake in the Woking team with Oliver Hoffmann, Audi’s chief development officer, telling the publication: “The FIA have made some good decisions regarding the future of Formula 1 and last season was also very interesting. “But,” he added, “now we are focusing on the Dakar and Le Mans for the time being.” There was also a report back in November that McLaren could sell their Formula 1 team to Audi, although the Woking team was quick to quash that . “McLaren Group is aware of a news media … [Read more...] about McLaren ‘have had conversations’ with Volkswagen
Inside a Rhode Island hospital E.R. overwhelmed by omicron
WARWICK, R.I. - Mary Balcerzak's nightmare was coming to an end. The coronavirus-positive woman spent 10 hours sitting with other infected patients in a small emergency department meeting room before health-care workers were able to find a bed for her in tiny Room 25. Now, 36 hours after she arrived, Balcerzak, 70, was about to move upstairs where she belonged, to a bed on a floor inside Kent Hospital. In a nearby hallway, five people sat in chairs, one man drinking tea, quietly talking to himself. Two elderly women lay on gurneys in another corridor. The patient in Room 28 needed to be moved to intensive care, but there was no bed available. This is what a slow day looks like in a hospital emergency department overwhelmed by the coronavirus. On other days, health-care workers have drawn blood from patients as they sat in their cars, set up intravenous drips in the packed waiting room or shunted patients to the overflow tent outside. There was simply no other choice, no other … [Read more...] about Inside a Rhode Island hospital E.R. overwhelmed by omicron
As his doping case goes to trial, a veterinarian says it’s horse racing that’s corrupt
5 On Oct. 27, 2019, Seth Fishman, a veterinarian, was returning from a weeks-long junket in the United Arab Emirates when he was greeted at Miami International Airport by armed federal agents. The agents pulled Fishman into a side room, where he explained his business in Dubai: As the chief research officer for the kingdom's camels, he said, his responsibilities included managing breeding and fending off the spread of "zoonotic diseases" and African sleeping sickness. And indeed, after agents across town seized hundreds of vials from Fishman's storage unit, a lawyer who said he represented Dubai's "Presidential Camel Department" sprung to action, arguing in U.S. court that the substances were tonics urgently needed while the beasts were in heat. But the American authorities, who had been eavesdropping on Fishman's calls since that February, saw the drugs, as well as those seized in other raids, as yet more evidence of what they asserted … [Read more...] about As his doping case goes to trial, a veterinarian says it’s horse racing that’s corrupt
Belgian court jails trafficker over migrant lorry deaths
The discovery of a lorry containing 39 dead people was one of the worst involving migrants in recent years. BRUGES, Belgium: A Belgian court sentenced a Vietnamese man to 15 years in prison on Wednesday after convicting him of being the ringleader in the trafficking of 39 migrants found dead in a lorry. Vo Van Hong, 45, was found guilty of leading a cross-Channel people-trafficking operation that has been linked to a truck found full of corpses on an English industrial estate in October 2019. At least 15 of the 39 dead had passed through the Belgian-based trafficking network, which operated two safe houses in the Anderlecht district of Brussels for migrants heading to Britain. The 2019 discovery on the Grays industrial park east of London was one of the worst involving migrants in recent years. The victims -- 31 men and eight women aged between 15 and 44, all Vietnamese -- died from suffocation and hyperthermia in the confined space of the container, which arrived on a ferry … [Read more...] about Belgian court jails trafficker over migrant lorry deaths