Le Mans 1953: Jaguar’s gigantic leap
Jaguar was nicely low-key at Le Mans in 1953. It had panicked the year before and radically altered its cars at the last minute, paid a heavy price for it…
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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.
If the season so far had not provided all the evidence you need of Audi’s dominance of sports car racing, then the times from this weekend’s test day most certainly…
I enjoy all sports bar horse racing; I will never forgive it for regularly interrupting what little televised motor sport there was during my formative 1970s; the parade ring, the…
Jaguar was nicely low-key at Le Mans in 1953. It had panicked the year before and radically altered its cars at the last minute, paid a heavy price for it…
If the season so far had not provided all the evidence you need of Audi’s dominance of sports car racing, then the times from this weekend’s test day most certainly…
I enjoy all sports bar horse racing; I will never forgive it for regularly interrupting what little televised motor sport there was during my formative 1970s; the parade ring, the…