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Ferrari returns with 499P Le Mans Hypercar
After years of speculation, a host of false dawns and then a series of grained spy shot images, there can now be no doubting it: Ferrari’s long-awaited return to endurance…
100 years of Le Mans
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Le Mans celebrates a century of innovation, daring and brilliance at this weekend’s running of the 24 Hour event.
As modern Hypercars battle to join the greats of decades past, we look back at the moments that made an endurance test into the world’s greatest race, and ahead to who will come out on top in 2023.
Le Mans 24 Hours: 100 years at the limit
Top 100 Le Mans moments
Latest on Le Mans – past and present
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Why Hypercars will be as big as F1: Richard Mille on the formula of dreams
Sports car looks set for a return to its glory days with the new Hypercar era but Richard Mille, president of the FIA Endurance Commission, has even bigger ambitions to match the success of Formula 1
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Ferrari’s next Le Mans winner? 499P Hypercar revealed in full
The full wraps are finally off Ferrari’s 499P Le Mans Hypercar – can it put the Scuderia back on La Sarthe’s top step after almost 60 years?
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Hydrogen series shows Le Mans is looking to future in centenary year
Sitting beside me here is a small squared-section bottle. It contains clear liquid and is securely capped by one of those over-centre, thick-wire latch systems used for 1950s ‘fizzy pop’…
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An enduring affair with the Classic
Richard Mille enjoys the memory of his old friend’s discomfort when he recalls how his watch brand became the title sponsor for one of motor sport’s biggest and best historic…
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Phil Remington: Shelby’s superstar race car builder
Phil Remington was the Paul Bunyan – the US superhuman lumberjack folk hero – of American motor sports. During a career that stretched from pre-war hotrods to the carbon-fibre DeltaWing,…
Racing Movies
‘Steve McQueen was a racer. Paul Newman was too calculating’
No movie has captured the intensity of endurance racing like Le Mans, driven by the passion of Steve McQueen and supported by a grid of top racers. Our new special issue goes behind-the-scenes of the eventful film shoot
Le Mans News
Derek Bell – Group C master: ‘I was a racer, not a developer’
Looking back on an incredible career at recent Group C celebrations, Derek Bell impressed upon Damien Smith how much his passion for racing remains
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Ferrari Dino at Le Mans: The race to not be last
It is June 11, 1972 and what had always been a dream had come to nothing. What galled was that it was so close to coming true. What would it…
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Ferrari returns with 499P Le Mans Hypercar
After years of speculation, a host of false dawns and then a series of grained spy shot images, there can now be no doubting it: Ferrari’s long-awaited return to endurance…
Sports Car News
Why Hypercars will be as big as F1: Richard Mille on the formula of dreams
Sports car looks set for a return to its glory days with the new Hypercar era but Richard Mille, president of the FIA Endurance Commission, has even bigger ambitions to match the success of Formula 1
Sports Car News
Ferrari’s next Le Mans winner? 499P Hypercar revealed in full
The full wraps are finally off Ferrari’s 499P Le Mans Hypercar – can it put the Scuderia back on La Sarthe’s top step after almost 60 years?
Subscriber
Archive
Hydrogen series shows Le Mans is looking to future in centenary year
Sitting beside me here is a small squared-section bottle. It contains clear liquid and is securely capped by one of those over-centre, thick-wire latch systems used for 1950s ‘fizzy pop’…
Subscriber
Archive
An enduring affair with the Classic
Richard Mille enjoys the memory of his old friend’s discomfort when he recalls how his watch brand became the title sponsor for one of motor sport’s biggest and best historic…
Subscriber
Archive
Phil Remington: Shelby’s superstar race car builder
Phil Remington was the Paul Bunyan – the US superhuman lumberjack folk hero – of American motor sports. During a career that stretched from pre-war hotrods to the carbon-fibre DeltaWing,…
Racing Movies
‘Steve McQueen was a racer. Paul Newman was too calculating’
No movie has captured the intensity of endurance racing like Le Mans, driven by the passion of Steve McQueen and supported by a grid of top racers. Our new special issue goes behind-the-scenes of the eventful film shoot
Le Mans News
Derek Bell – Group C master: ‘I was a racer, not a developer’
Looking back on an incredible career at recent Group C celebrations, Derek Bell impressed upon Damien Smith how much his passion for racing remains
Subscriber
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Ferrari Dino at Le Mans: The race to not be last
It is June 11, 1972 and what had always been a dream had come to nothing. What galled was that it was so close to coming true. What would it…