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Kobayashi: Le Mans organisers didn’t want Alpine LMP1 to win

Toyota’s Kamui Kobayashi believes Le Mans 24 Hours organisers gave Alpine a last-minute Balance of Performance change because it did not want a grandfathered LMP1 car winning the race.

Motorsport

How dominant Toyotas put on a show to win Le Mans 2022

Toyota scored its fifth win on the trot at the Le Mans 24 Hours, but once again let its two cars battle it out. The #7 entry of Sebastien Buemi, Brendon Hartley and Ryo Hirakawa eventually defeated the rival #8 crew after an intense battle that was only decided by…

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How dominant Toyotas put on a show to win Le Mans 2022

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Ferrari hit by power reduction in latest Le Mans BoP tweak

Ferrari has suffered a power reduction in a revised GTE Pro Balance of Performance for the Le Mans 24 Hours, issued by event organiser Automobile Club de l'Ouest on Wednesday.

Autosport

Porsche braced for "hard" Le Mans due to lack of BoP changes

Porsche drivers Gianmaria Bruni and Frederic Makowiecki fear that the German marque could be on for another tough Le Mans 24 Hours based on the Balance of Performance in the GTE Pro class.

Motorsport

Alpine working to address Le Mans straightline speed deficit

Alpine is working to resolve a lack of straightline speed ahead of practice and qualifying for this weekend’s Le Mans 24 Hours FIA World Endurance Championship round.

Motorsport

Alpine's Lapierre hopeful of closer Le Mans battle with Toyota

Alpine driver Nicolas Lapierre is hopeful that the French marque can provide a sterner challenge for Toyota in this year's Le Mans 24 Hours than it was able to offer in 2021.

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Federal prison inmate to get gender-affirming surgery: ACLU

Cristina Nichole Iglesias has been fighting for years to have the procedure. She is serving a 28-year prison sentence for threatening to use a weapon of mass destruction.

Chicago Sun-Times

Van der Zande says IMSA has BoP wrong in Prototype class

Renger van der Zande says the Cadillacs are being too heavily penalized by the Balance of Performance in place at the moment in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.

Motorsport

How the newest federal prison became one of the deadliest

Federal prisoners said to be the most dangerous are sent to a special unit at an Illinois penitentiary. NPR and The Marshall Project have uncovered violence, abuse and a string of inmate deaths there.

WEKU

Porsche team unhappy with BoP in Portimao DTM opener

SSR Performance team owner Stefan Schlund feels Porsche wasn’t balanced correctly against its rivals in the opening round of the 2022 DTM season at Portimao.

Motorsport

Woman formerly held at Fort Worth prison could be 1st to receive gender-affirming surgery

FORT WORTH, Texas — A judge has ordered the Bureau of Prisons to schedule gender-affirmation surgery for a transgender woman who has experienced repeated delays in receiving treatment, including when she was housed at a Fort Worth women's prison.

Tribune News Service

Judge accuses Bureau of Prisons of playing ‘whack-a-mole,’ threatens fines in gender-affirming surgery case of former Illinois inmate

Cristina Nichole Iglesias has been trying for years to get the surgery. She’s set to be released from prison later this year.

Chicago Sun-Times

De Oliveira: Moves to slow GT300-rules cars "not unexpected"

Moves to slow SUPER GT's GT300-rules cars ahead of the 2022 season are welcome but 'not unexpected' according to Kondo Racing's Joao Paulo de Oliveira.

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Little compassion for US inmates with organized crime ties seeking release

In spite of advanced disease and the threat of Covid, judges’ mercy tends to stop short of aging dons and gangsters

Autosport

Toyota has taken "big hit" with new WEC hybrid limitations

Toyota has described the increase in the speed at which it can deploy hybrid power as a “big hit” after being outpaced in last weekend’s Sebring FIA World Endurance Championship Prologue test.

Tribune News Service

Inmates who died asked for release before falling ill with COVID

Rory Adams did not know that Christmas in a small rural hospital in West Virginia would be the last time he saw his wife alive. She’d entered prison in early January 2021 to serve a 42-month sentence for failure to collect payroll taxes. She was supposed to return to North…

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