The Lone Star Le Mans (previously known as 6 Hours of the Circuit of the Americas) is an endurance race for

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s and

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-style cars held at the

Circuit of the Americas Circuit of the Americas (COTA) is a Grade 1 FIA-specification motor racing track and facilities located within the extraterritorial jurisdiction of Austin, Texas, in the United States. The facility is home to the Formula One United States Grand ...

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. Its first running was on 22 September 2013 as the fifth round of the 2013 FIA World Endurance Championship season. On 2 December 2019, the Austin round was revived for 2020, as a result of a conflict between the promoters at the

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and the WEC, where the Austin round replaced the

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Results

FIA WEC races

Other races

6 Hours of the Americas

The 6 Hours of the Americas was an event organised by the

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(SRO) and would have been part of the inaugural season of the

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on March 6, 2016. On January 29 it was announced that the race would be cancelled with the official reason stated as a lack of entrants.

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