Audi and Porsche at Le Mans 2014
Will Porsche and Audi be allowed to fight to the finish at Le Mans this year? It is a question I am asked quite a lot at the moment as…
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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.
Taken from the July 1997 issue of Motor Sport On and off, Mario Andretti has been trying to win Le Mans for more than 30 years. The place has hardly…
A Porsche winning its class at Le Mans is nothing new but the events of this year’s 24 Hours made the company’s victory celebrations harder to manage. It seems wrong…
For all that was good about it, and there was more about what I love about Le Mans in 2013 than any I can recall – constantly changing weather, unbelievable…
It was inevitable that triumph would be tempered by tears. Given what had happened at the start of this year’s Le Mans 24 Hours, it would have been fitting to…
In the end there was immense relief, deep emotion, satisfaction at a job well done in the most extreme circumstances… but more than anything an overwhelming sadness that the 2013…
Sunday, 9am-midday A notional concept, rest. It doesn’t matter how many times you cover Le Mans, nor how well you appreciate the benefits of a break: your thirst for information…
Sunday, 12am-3am Canadian Tony Burgess was lucky to escape serious injury in a huge crash that cut his Lola coupé in half as the half-way point of the race loomed.…
Aston Martin Racing driver Allan Simonsen has died after crashing on the third lap of the Le Mans 24 Hours. The Dane, 34, was leading the GTE-Am class in his…
Will Porsche and Audi be allowed to fight to the finish at Le Mans this year? It is a question I am asked quite a lot at the moment as…
Taken from the July 1997 issue of Motor Sport On and off, Mario Andretti has been trying to win Le Mans for more than 30 years. The place has hardly…
A Porsche winning its class at Le Mans is nothing new but the events of this year’s 24 Hours made the company’s victory celebrations harder to manage. It seems wrong…
For all that was good about it, and there was more about what I love about Le Mans in 2013 than any I can recall – constantly changing weather, unbelievable…
It was inevitable that triumph would be tempered by tears. Given what had happened at the start of this year’s Le Mans 24 Hours, it would have been fitting to…
In the end there was immense relief, deep emotion, satisfaction at a job well done in the most extreme circumstances… but more than anything an overwhelming sadness that the 2013…
Sunday, 9am-midday A notional concept, rest. It doesn’t matter how many times you cover Le Mans, nor how well you appreciate the benefits of a break: your thirst for information…
Sunday, 12am-3am Canadian Tony Burgess was lucky to escape serious injury in a huge crash that cut his Lola coupé in half as the half-way point of the race loomed.…
Aston Martin Racing driver Allan Simonsen has died after crashing on the third lap of the Le Mans 24 Hours. The Dane, 34, was leading the GTE-Am class in his…