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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…
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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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…
Great Read
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Veni, vidi, 8C – Nuvolari and Sommer’s mighty Le Mans winner
Entering the final half-hour, Chinetti held a 21-second lead with Nuvolari, the ‘Flying Mantuan’, gaining. Chinetti stopped for fuel and the lead changed — again. WF Bradley of The Motor…
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1953 Le Mans 24 hours: Magnificent Victory by Jaguar – All Records Broken
Le Mans (Sarthe), June 14th. The Le Mans 24-hour race carries with it more tradition and history than any other event in the minds of most people and the occasion…
Great Read
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Porsche 956 chassis 004 – Group C car at the centre of Le Mans history
The formation finish, staged for the benefit of the cameras, has become commonplace at Le Mans thanks to a certain manufacturer from Germany. Before Audi’s domination of the event, though,…
Great Read
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Peugeot 905: The incredible Le Mans winner fast enough for F1
Take out of the equation those pedal-to-metal laps around the old eight-mile Spa-Francorchamps or the pre-Hella Licht-S Osterreichring, and a Porsche 917 couldn’t live with a Formula 1 car in…
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The missile firm that won Le Mans and F1: Matra’s impossible dream
It’s hard to think of a recent equivalent to the Matra racing regime. In one glorious decade, from 1965 to 1974, Matra fielded victorious Grand Prix cars and Le Mans…
Le Mans News
Losing streaks
Everybody loves a trier – although I’m not sure that the world’s biggest manufacturer of cars will (initially) thank me for calling it such. Admittedly Toyota is today more of…
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…
Great Read
Archive
Veni, vidi, 8C – Nuvolari and Sommer’s mighty Le Mans winner
Entering the final half-hour, Chinetti held a 21-second lead with Nuvolari, the ‘Flying Mantuan’, gaining. Chinetti stopped for fuel and the lead changed — again. WF Bradley of The Motor…
Archive
1953 Le Mans 24 hours: Magnificent Victory by Jaguar – All Records Broken
Le Mans (Sarthe), June 14th. The Le Mans 24-hour race carries with it more tradition and history than any other event in the minds of most people and the occasion…
Great Read
Archive
Porsche 956 chassis 004 – Group C car at the centre of Le Mans history
The formation finish, staged for the benefit of the cameras, has become commonplace at Le Mans thanks to a certain manufacturer from Germany. Before Audi’s domination of the event, though,…
Great Read
Archive
Peugeot 905: The incredible Le Mans winner fast enough for F1
Take out of the equation those pedal-to-metal laps around the old eight-mile Spa-Francorchamps or the pre-Hella Licht-S Osterreichring, and a Porsche 917 couldn’t live with a Formula 1 car in…
Archive
The missile firm that won Le Mans and F1: Matra’s impossible dream
It’s hard to think of a recent equivalent to the Matra racing regime. In one glorious decade, from 1965 to 1974, Matra fielded victorious Grand Prix cars and Le Mans…
Le Mans News
Losing streaks
Everybody loves a trier – although I’m not sure that the world’s biggest manufacturer of cars will (initially) thank me for calling it such. Admittedly Toyota is today more of…
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