The Le Mans 24 Hours is part of the holy trinity of motor races alongside the Monaco Grand Prix and the Indianoplis 500. It’s the race that the drivers want to win – but more importantly, perhaps even more than the other two, it’s the race that the manufactures want to win. That’s why major [...]
One man. Three legends. You don’t get many opportunities to sit down with a six-time winner of the Le Mans 24 Hours alongside two of the cars he drove to victory. Then again, it would be a similar privilege to sit down with a winner of the Paris-Dakar. Or a man with eight Formula 1 [...]
There is a name that’s synonymous with Le Mans: Jacky Ickx. The unassuming Belgian driver ruled sportscar racing in general and Le Mans in particular throughout the 1970s and 1980s, but his career effectively spanned four decades. Ickx was a multi-discipline master: one of the old school of drive anything, anywhere, anytime – fast. An [...]
