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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,…

The story of Jean Rondeau, the last garagista to win the Le Mans 24 Hours, is a tale of grit, determination and against-the-odds endeavour that propelled the Frenchman from near-obscurity…

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 explained why its radical new Le Mans Hypercar, the 9X8, features no rear wing

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,…

Doug Fehan surprised GM executives when he presented his vision for Corvette's racing future – but his leadership took the brand to unprecedented sports car glory