However Prost has also stated that he has no intention of racing at the famous Le Mans 24 Hours sportscar race held annually near Le Mans, France due to concerns about the skill and experience of other drivers along the nature of the multiple class racing that occurs at Le Mans, a factor that was supported by Scotsman and two time LeMans winner Allan McNish's horror crash in the Audi R18 in the 2011 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Alfa Romeo has competed successfully in many different categories of motorsport, including Grand Prix motor racing, Formula One, sportscar racing, touring car racing and rallies.

Despite Peugeot's sportscar racing program, the company is not prepared to build a pure sportscar any more hardcore than the upcoming RC Z sports-coupe.

Peugeot returned to sportscar racing and Le Mans in 2007 with the diesel-powered Peugeot 908 HDi FAP.

Outside Formula One, Villeneuve has taken on several new careers: in sportscar racing, racing for Peugeot in the 2007 and 2008 24 Hours of Le Mans, jumping to NASCAR in August 2007 and racing as an invited driver in the Argentinian Top Race V6 series and the Australian based International V8 Supercars Championship.

Concord is the home to Charlotte Motor Speedway, a NASCAR Research and Development Office ( which also is the headquarters for research for touring and sportscar racing operations ), and several professional race teams, including Hendrick Motorsports, Roush Fenway Racing, Richard Petty Motorsports, and Earnhardt Ganassi Racing.

The team currently only races in Formula One but has competed in numerous classes of motorsport since its formation in 1929, including sportscar racing.

After three poor years, Ferrari signed Niki Lauda in 1974, and made the momentous decision to pull out of sportscar racing to concentrate upon F1.

After having retired from F1 at the end of the 1962 season, Porsche focused again on sportscar racing.

He continued with sportscar racing, winning the Le Mans 24 Hours for a second time in 1976, sharing a Porsche 936 Turbo with Jacky Ickx before retiring from racing.

* Stephane Sarrazin ( born 1975 ), sportscar racing driver, rally driver

The company's intention following the merger was to specialize in sportscar racing, but it also provided support for teams competing in the domestic F3 series.

* The ADAC Supercup, commonly known as Supercup ; a German sportscar racing series held between 1985 to 1989.

For 2007, he switched to the sportscar racing as he joined the FIA GT Championship with Team AF Corse MOTOROLA in a Ferrari 430 GT3.

Grand American Road Racing drivers Max Angelelli and Wayne Taylor each drove two races in 2006, trying to win the IROC title as a team, reflecting sportscar racing as a two-man team.

In motorsports a vehicle must be homologated by the sanctioning body to race in a given league, such as World Superbikes, International Level Kart Racing or other sportscar racing series.

The engine became popular in sportscar racing and was followed by a Mark II and then by an FWB which had a capacity of nearly 1. 5-litres.

At the same time, the company produced the FWE engine for the Lotus Elite and this enjoyed considerable success in sportscar racing, with a series of class wins at Le Mans in the early 1960s.

Geoff was an Indycar and sportscar racer who won five North American sportscar championships as well as the 24 Hours of Le Mans, while David competed in Formula One for the Brabham team and has also won the Le Mans race as well as three Japanese and North American sportscar titles.

In the 2012 film, The Avengers, Iron Man ( played by Robert Downey, Jr .) drove an exotic sportscar by Acura, made specifically for the film, rather than the Audi R8 he previously drove.

A sports car ( sportscar or sport car ) is a small, usually two seat, two door automobile designed for spirited performance and nimble handling.

Whereas the VVA technology will be used in the creation of a new mid-engined sportscar for Lotus cars, the APX is in fact a high-performance 7-seat MPV with four-wheel drive and a front-mounted V6 engine from Lotus Engineering's Powertrain division.

He was originally slated to drive in the BOAC 1000 km sportscar race at Brands Hatch, but instead chose to drive in the Deutschland Trophäe, a Formula Two race, for Lotus at the Hockenheimring, primarily due to contractual obligations with Firestone.

This time he entered two sportscar races, driving a Porsche 956 for Richard Lloyd Racing in the World Sportscar Championship.

Van Lennep drove for the Porsche sportscar team from 1967 and won the Le Mans 24 Hours in 1971 with Helmut Marko driving the number 22 Martini sponsored Porsche 917K.

* The Toyota MR2 sportscar is named MR in France, because a way of pronouncing it, " merdeux ", sounds like the word for shitty in French.

In September 2011, during filming of The Avengers, Robert Downey, Jr. ( playing the role of Iron Man ) was spotted in an exotic sportscar by Acura, made specifically for the film, rather than the Audi R8 he previously drove in Iron Man and Iron Man 2.

It ran for 13 episodes and featured stories written and filmed around a real-life world sportscar championship, documenting Henri Grandsire driving an Alpine A110, interspersed with dramatic interludes acted by Grandsire himself.

The Porsche 911 GT1 was a car designed for competition in the GT1 class of sportscar racing, which also required a street legal version for homologation purposes.

With the revival of international sportscar racing in the mid-1990s, though the BPR Global GT Series ( which then morphed in to the FIA GT Championship ) Porsche expressed interest in returning to top level sportscar racing and went about developing its competitor for the GT1 category.

In 1985, he was a substitute for Manfred Winkelhock, who was killed in a sportscar race during the season.

Joakim " Jo " Bonnier ( 31 January 1930 – 11 June 1972 ) was a Swedish sportscar racing and Formula One driver who raced for various teams.

Group B was a set of regulations introduced in 1982 for competition vehicles in sportscar racing and rallying regulated by the FIA.

Due to lack of competition in 1976, Porsche decided not to defend its sportscar championship, leaving it to the Alfa Romeo Tipo 33.

Cars in this category were previously heavily modified versions of road cars, usually supercars such as the McLaren F1 and Ferrari F40, but when the 911 GT1 was uneveiled in 1996 Porsche had exploited the rule book to the full and stunned the sportscar fraternity.

The German was killed after he crashed his Porsche 962C sportscar at the 1000 km of Mosport in Canada just a week after the German Grand prix.

He was very successful in sportscar racing and the World Sportscar Championship, winning the 1970 Targa Florio with a Porsche 908 and the 12 Hours of Sebring twice, in 1975 with a BMW Coupé, in 1978 with a Porsche 935 and the Spa-Francorchamps 1000km race 4 times ( 1968-1970, 1972 ).

Heyer was also successful in sportscar racing, winning the 1984 12 Hours of Sebring in a Porsche 935.

A few months later he died when his Porsche sportscar overturned during the 1000 km Buenos Aires race.

With different versions of the Porsche 718 being used as a sportscar and as Formula Two, Herrmann scored some wins for Porsche, mainly both the 1960 12 Hours of Sebring and Targa Florio.

In 1952, the original 300SL ( model Mercedes-Benz W194 ) scored overall wins at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, in Bern-Bremgarten, in the sportscar race of the Eifelrennen at the Nürburgring, and in Mexico's Carrera Panamericana.

He scored no championship points and was never close to the car's performance limits, being described as " desperately slow " by Jonathan Palmer, although he did well in his forays in sportscar racing.