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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.
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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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Has the United States ever produced a greater sportsman than Briggs Cunningham? Never mind the quintessentially American sports-racers he built out of a sense of patriotic duty. Never mind the…
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…
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…
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…
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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…
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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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We all know that there is only one individual sports car in history to not only claim a World Championship but also Le Mans not once but twice. The story…
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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.…
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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…
Great Read
Has the United States ever produced a greater sportsman than Briggs Cunningham? Never mind the quintessentially American sports-racers he built out of a sense of patriotic duty. Never mind the…
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…
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…
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
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
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…
Great Read
We all know that there is only one individual sports car in history to not only claim a World Championship but also Le Mans not once but twice. The story…
