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Pierre Levegh’s 23 hours of Le Mans
Its been many years since Grand Prix was an endurance event, but it’s not long since rallying’s old guard complained that compulsory night-stops mollycoddled the crews. In the great days…
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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Catch-44: Jaguar’s doomed first Le Mans Group C car
The pinstripe-suited captain of British industry and the grizzled American racing veteran met in the boardroom at Brown’s Lane, and these unlikely bedfellows shook hands on a deal that would take Jaguar back into international…
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Unforgettable Ferrari P3/4 — the sports car without any vices
Take yourself back thirty years to Spa, May 1, 1967. It’s a little before 1.00pm and the 1000 kilometres of Francorchamps is about to be begin. Dickie Attwood, sitting on…
Great Read
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Lunch with… Alain de Cadenet
Countless schoolboys have fantasised about winning Le Mans, perhaps in a car painted in patriotic dark green; perhaps – even better – in a self-built car carrying their own name.…
Great Read
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Le Mans’ greatest Group C battle: Jaguar XJR-9 LM vs Porsche 962
What was the greatest moment in sports car racing? Some might well say Pedro Rodríguez’s win in the ’71 Österreichring 1000Km was unassailable for its sheer spectacle, other’s that the…
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Phil Hill interview: a career celebration
More than half a century ago a young man called Philip Toll Hill Jr turned his back on California sunshine and came to England, joining Jaguar as a trainee. He’d…
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Endangered species: Driving the Mazda 787B Group C car
If I tell you not to think of an elephant, what do you do? If I then repeat myself and suggest – this time more sternly – that you really…
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Mac One: Driving the Le Mans-winning McLaren F1 GTR
The McLaren F1 GTR is the most successful British sports car of the modern era. It won more races than the Jaguar XJR9 and won at Le Mans, adding the…
Great Read
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Looking back with Tony Rolt: Jaguar Le Mans hero who plotted Colditz escape
It seems hard to believe that Tony Rolt could be old enough to have raced at Donington, but the fact remains that, at the relatively tender age of twenty-one he…
Archive
Pierre Levegh’s 23 hours of Le Mans
Its been many years since Grand Prix was an endurance event, but it’s not long since rallying’s old guard complained that compulsory night-stops mollycoddled the crews. In the great days…
Archive
Catch-44: Jaguar’s doomed first Le Mans Group C car
The pinstripe-suited captain of British industry and the grizzled American racing veteran met in the boardroom at Brown’s Lane, and these unlikely bedfellows shook hands on a deal that would take Jaguar back into international…
Great Read
Archive
Unforgettable Ferrari P3/4 — the sports car without any vices
Take yourself back thirty years to Spa, May 1, 1967. It’s a little before 1.00pm and the 1000 kilometres of Francorchamps is about to be begin. Dickie Attwood, sitting on…
Great Read
Archive
Lunch with… Alain de Cadenet
Countless schoolboys have fantasised about winning Le Mans, perhaps in a car painted in patriotic dark green; perhaps – even better – in a self-built car carrying their own name.…
Great Read
Archive
Le Mans’ greatest Group C battle: Jaguar XJR-9 LM vs Porsche 962
What was the greatest moment in sports car racing? Some might well say Pedro Rodríguez’s win in the ’71 Österreichring 1000Km was unassailable for its sheer spectacle, other’s that the…
Archive
Phil Hill interview: a career celebration
More than half a century ago a young man called Philip Toll Hill Jr turned his back on California sunshine and came to England, joining Jaguar as a trainee. He’d…
Archive
Endangered species: Driving the Mazda 787B Group C car
If I tell you not to think of an elephant, what do you do? If I then repeat myself and suggest – this time more sternly – that you really…
Archive
Mac One: Driving the Le Mans-winning McLaren F1 GTR
The McLaren F1 GTR is the most successful British sports car of the modern era. It won more races than the Jaguar XJR9 and won at Le Mans, adding the…
Great Read
Archive
Looking back with Tony Rolt: Jaguar Le Mans hero who plotted Colditz escape
It seems hard to believe that Tony Rolt could be old enough to have raced at Donington, but the fact remains that, at the relatively tender age of twenty-one he…