My Le Mans memories
By Oliver Gavin Main image: taking 2015 very seriously indeed Le Mans week is here! The build-up to the 2015 24 Heures du Mans is now well and truly under…
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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.
By Sam Smith JOTA Sport’s new star Mitch Evans is looking forward to making his Le Mans 24 Hours debut next weekend in the highly competitive LMP2 class. The Kent-based…
Next weekend, at La Sarthe, Oliver Jarvis will step aboard an LMP1 Audi R18 e-tron Quattro, replacing Tom Kristensen in the team that has made a habit, in recent years,…
Les Vingt-Quatre Heures du Mans held little interest for me. A motor racing fan since I was five years old, when my parents took me to Goodwood, it was Grand…
By Oliver Gavin It was a dark and stormy race… The 2001 24 Hours of Le Mans was certainly a baptism of fire. In fact, the extended periods of torrential…
The countdown is on. As I write, there are just 45 days to go until the 83rd Le Mans 24 Hours rolls into action at the fabled Circuit de la Sarthe…
Here’s a Motor Sport exclusive: the trailer for a new documentary about Le Mans from Fantelli Productions. More specifically, it’s about Jota Sport, the small British team that won the…
“I love this place,” he grins as we look out over the pits towards the huge grandstand. “I’ve been coming here since 1970 and it’s still such an exhilarating place…
Judging by how far the man holding the microphone-on-a-stick jumps back as the car fires up, our fervent hope that this Le Mans-winner’s turbo V6 might not bust today’s noise…
By Oliver Gavin Main image: taking 2015 very seriously indeed Le Mans week is here! The build-up to the 2015 24 Heures du Mans is now well and truly under…
By Sam Smith JOTA Sport’s new star Mitch Evans is looking forward to making his Le Mans 24 Hours debut next weekend in the highly competitive LMP2 class. The Kent-based…
Next weekend, at La Sarthe, Oliver Jarvis will step aboard an LMP1 Audi R18 e-tron Quattro, replacing Tom Kristensen in the team that has made a habit, in recent years,…
Les Vingt-Quatre Heures du Mans held little interest for me. A motor racing fan since I was five years old, when my parents took me to Goodwood, it was Grand…
By Oliver Gavin It was a dark and stormy race… The 2001 24 Hours of Le Mans was certainly a baptism of fire. In fact, the extended periods of torrential…
The countdown is on. As I write, there are just 45 days to go until the 83rd Le Mans 24 Hours rolls into action at the fabled Circuit de la Sarthe…
Here’s a Motor Sport exclusive: the trailer for a new documentary about Le Mans from Fantelli Productions. More specifically, it’s about Jota Sport, the small British team that won the…
“I love this place,” he grins as we look out over the pits towards the huge grandstand. “I’ve been coming here since 1970 and it’s still such an exhilarating place…
Judging by how far the man holding the microphone-on-a-stick jumps back as the car fires up, our fervent hope that this Le Mans-winner’s turbo V6 might not bust today’s noise…