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ENDURANCE

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Jun 10, 2023
24 Hours of Le Mans: 100 years of endurance and innovation
Adapting to developing conditions and battling fatigue are key elements of the marathon race.
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May 30, 2021
Endurance sport looks inward after tragedy kills 21 runners
Ultrarunning has never experienced a day like May 22, when 21 runners died as a storm descended on a high mountain pass during a 62-mile race in northwestern China.
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BUSINESS
Dec 10, 2019
GM loans Ohio plant buyer $40 million to launch electric truck
General Motors Co. loaned the buyer of its half-century-old assembly plant in Ohio $40 million to help the cash-strapped startup roll out an electric pickup truck.
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CULTURE / Entertainment news
Nov 28, 2019
Australian ex-pat writer and TV critic Clive James dead at 80
Clive James, an expatriate Australian writer and broadcaster who wrote incisively and often hilariously about television, literature and current affairs, has died aged 80, his agents said on Wednesday.
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Oct 14, 2016
Veteran driver Webber reveals plan to retire
Porsche World Endurance Championship driver Mark Webber describes his need for speed as being like a drug, and after a career that has seen him strapped into some of the world's fastest machines for most of the past 15 years, he announced on Friday that he is going cold turkey.
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Feb 4, 2016
Ex-F1 driver Kobayashi joins Toyota's World Endurance Championship team
Former Formula One driver Kamui Kobayashi was announced as a full-time driver oi Toyota's World Endurance Championship team on Thursday, marking his first entry into the premier class of endurance road racing.
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Oct 11, 2015
Porsche cruises to 6 Hours of Fuji triumph
Porsche LMP1 drivers Mark Webber, Brendon Hartley and Timo Bernhard won the World Endurance Championship's 6 Hours of Fuji race on Sunday after being handed the lead by their Porsche teammates near the end of a wet and at times chaotic race at the Fuji Speedway.
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Oct 10, 2015
Porsche's Webber grabs pole position for 6 Hours of Fuji
Australia's Mark Webber put his Porsche 919 hybrid on pole position for the World Endurance Championship's 6 Hours of Fuji on Saturday, topping the second Porsche driven by Marc Lieb and Audi's Benoit Treluyer.

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