The Musée Automobile De La Sarthe at the Le Mans circuit in France is the perfect way to familiarise yourself with over a century of automobiles linked to the famous race, containing both important road cars from across the decades and a slew of racers from the 79 editions of the Le Mans 24 Hours. [...]
It’s amazing how far you can get with belief. It also helps when you’ve got three amazing drivers, a great car and a dedicated team around you. When JRM’s LMP1 HPD ARX-03a crossed the line at five minutes past three last Sunday afternoon at the end of a gruelling Le Mans 24 Hours, it was [...]
Indianapolis. Monaco. Le Mans. Three places that even non-motorsport fans would identify as representative of the spirit of racing, and the Holy Trinity of races that any driver worth his salt wants to have on his CV. Each of them is the epitome of their style of racing: Indy for high speed ovals, Monaco for [...]
Toyota were always destined to return to the sportscar scene, and Le Mans in particular. Since 1990 they’ve had two serious cracks at the great race, most recently back in 1998 and ’99 with the beautiful TS020 GT-One, but both efforts have just fallen short of their goal. The Toyota Team Europe rally team were [...]
This year the Group C sportscar rules are celebrating 30 years since their inception, and the organisers of the Le Mans 24 Hours invited the Group C/GTP historic series to be the hors d’oeuvre for the 24 Hours this year. This being the natural home of these big sports prototypes, drivers jumped at the chance [...]
It’s the noise you miss most once the 24 Hours of Le Mans is over. During the preceding week in the build up to the race, you get used to the roar of engines that starts mid-afternoon and tucks you in at night. Until race-day itself that is, when you’re surrounded by a constant, inescapable [...]
The #1 Audi e-tron Quattro has taken victory at this year’s running of the Le Mans 24 Hours. The car held the lead for the majority of the race, fighting off opposition from both within the Audi camp and from the remarkably strong Toyota team. It has to be stressed what a great performance Toyota [...]
We’re already seven Grand Prix distances into the Le Mans 24 Hours: over 10 hours in. There have been unexpected leaders throughout the classes and some amazing racing – but also a couple of serious accidents from which drivers have fortunately walked away. The start was relatively calm compared to previous years, with the Audi [...]
We are just hours away from the start of one of the world’s great automotive spectacles – the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
While we all can’t be trackside at la Sarthe , the entire race can be experienced through the wonders of television and the internet. Our question this week is just how much of the famous endurance race you plan on watching this weekend?
Will you be glued to your TV or computer screen for the entirety of the race? Will you ignore it entirely? Somewhere in between?
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We’re already 10 hours of running down, and that’s just through practice and qualifying here at the Circuit De La Sarthe in France. With three drivers itching to get out and a lap taking three and a half to four minutes, a single flying lap costs a minimum of 12 minutes – so what seems [...]
Looking back through the eight decades of the Le Mans 24 Hours, it’s clear that certain marques are synonymous with the different periods of the race: Audi in the contemporary era, Porsche in the ’70s and ’80s, Jaguar in the ’50s, Alfa Romeo and Bentley in the ’30s. The early 1960s were all about Ferrari, [...]
The Le Mans 24 Hours has been the site of some legendary races through the years. Each era has displayed its own magical combination of radically different cars and a track which still retains the same basic challenge that it has done for 80 years. Here’s a little video retrospective to get you in the mood for this year’s race, starting with footage from last weekend’s Test Day.
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There’s less than a week to go until the 80th running of the Le Mans 24 Hours, another classic event in this year of grand anniversaries following the 60th Sebring 12 Hours, 50th Daytona 24 Hours and the 40th Nürburgring 24 Hours. Last weekend’s Test Day gave an opportunity to see just what the order of [...]
Following the unveiling of the TS030 HYBRID, Toyota have announced the remaining drivers for their two car attack on the Le Mans 24 Hours. Joining Hiroaki Ishiura will be two former F1 drivers in Anthony Davidson and Sebastien Buemi. Davidson was without a drive since Peugeot's exit from endurance prototype racing, while Buemi was recently dropped by [...]
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Toyota Racing has today taken the covers off the highly anticipated TS030 HYBRID. Based out of Toyota GmbH – the German facility used for their previous F1 campaign – Toyota Racing will enter two TS030 HYBRIDs in this year's Le Mans 24 Hours. The unveiling occured at Paul Ricard, where ex-F1 driver Alex Wurz and Nicolas Lapierre [...]
