Rebuilding the monster: Porsche 917's audacious return to Le Mans in 1981
I was too young to see it race in its heyday, but the Porsche 917 has always had a special place in my heart. I guess it started in about…
Toyota looks set to make it four-in-a-row at Le Mans, but can the No.7 car finish on the top step for the first time?
Valentino Rossi will switch to racing on four wheels next season, after announcing his MotoGP retirement at the end of this year. The nine-time motorcycle world champion has frequently spoken…
Read our 2021 Le Mans 24 Hours entry list and preview, including the new Le Mans Hypercar class entries
Jim Glickenhaus used to be best known as a film director, producer and writer. The Exterminator, the 1980 cult vigilante movie, is probably his most famous flick. These days, however,…
Le Mans' new era: I predict a classic On the face of it, we shouldn’t be getting excited by the Le Mans 24 Hours. After all, we’ve only got five…
Peugeot has revealed its new arresting 9X8 Le Mans Hypercar design, set to enter the World Endurance Championship and Le Mans in 2022, after an 11-year absence from top-level endurance…
Designers get a set of rules, they put their brains together, employ all the technology they have at their disposal, and try to come up with the most competitive machine…
Peugeot has unveiled its new 9X8 Le Mans Hypercar, ten years after it turned its back on elite-level endurance racing, with a radical design which features no rear wing – but is unsure if it will be ready for Le Mans 2022
This August should have witnessed Aston Martin and Toyota locking horns at Le Mans, with a new generation of hypercars battling for the win. But Aston’s troubled finances saw it…
In 1991, the small Mazda car firm somehow slayed the giants of Mercedes, Jaguar, Peugeot with its iconic 787B to win Le Mans – the car's designer, Nigel Stroud, remembers the journey
Few racing cars have been as eagerly anticipated as this one. Yet the machine in question wasn’t built by an established manufacturer or constructor but by a garagiste with big…
A proliferation of Hyercar entrants means there should be plenty of berths at Le Mans by 2023 – Jenson Button has emphatically stated he wants to be in one of them
Raced by Mike Hailwood and David Hobbs at Le Mans in 1970; painted in the celebrated Gulf livery; and prominent in Steve McQueen’s Le Mans film; this Porsche 917 K…
BMW has become the latest major manufacturer to announce an LMDh programme for 2023, potentially opening the door for a return to Le Mans, which celebrates its 100th race that…
Should the Le Mans 24 Hours adopt GT3 regulations to revive its Grand Touring tradition in the wake of the slow demise of its GTE category? That’s one of the…
Ten years ago, in 2011, Leena Gade became the first female race engineer to win the Le Mans 24 Hours when she ran an Audi R18 driven by André Lotterer,…