A look back at the 1966 Le Mans 24 Hours
It's 50 years since Ford celebrated its maiden Le Mans victory. As the factory prepares to return to the race for the first time since 1969, we look back at…
The privateer Rebellion team wins Le Mans. Better still, a second division LMP2 Ligier or ORECA lands the big one. Let’s take it a step further: a GT Ferrari, Aston…
To buy the lead image click here. The news on Friday that Bentley are possibly going long-distance racing in a purpose-built prototype left me spending the weekend mulling over the cars’ previous participations at…
A new documentary's been doing the rounds at film festivals over the last couple of months – the story of Steve McQueen's obsession with motor racing and the making of…
Le Mans 24 Hours, June 10-11 1967 The theorists said it was a pairing ill conceived for the delicate art of endurance driving, because Dan Gurney and A J Foyt were racers…
By Darren Turner We had high hopes for Le Mans this year. We knew from last year that we had a strong package and if it hadn’t been for a…
As you may have read, Rob Widdows was at Le Mans over the weekend. When he came back, these videos landed in our inbox and we suddenly got very jealous…
By Oliver Gavin I’ll be living on adrenaline for the rest of the week, unable to process the roller coaster of the past seven days, which culminated with me becoming…
Who do you think was more satisfied with their Le Mans weekend, Toyota or Nissan? On first glance, this is a question not requiring a serious answer. Sure, Toyota was…
Those of you who tweet will be familiar with Audi’s hashtag #welcomechallenges. Well, the team from Ingolstadt sure had some challenges at Le Mans 2015, and of course the biggest…
By Oliver Gavin A lot of people at Corvette Racing would look at winning Le Mans as winning the season – that’s the level and prestige of the 24 Hours.…
It’s been 40 years since Derek Bell took the first of his five victories at Le Mans in the Mirage-Ford GR8 run by John Wyer and sponsored by Gulf. This…
By Oliver Gavin Main image: taking 2015 very seriously indeed Le Mans week is here! The build-up to the 2015 24 Heures du Mans is now well and truly under…
By Sam Smith JOTA Sport’s new star Mitch Evans is looking forward to making his Le Mans 24 Hours debut next weekend in the highly competitive LMP2 class. The Kent-based…
Next weekend, at La Sarthe, Oliver Jarvis will step aboard an LMP1 Audi R18 e-tron Quattro, replacing Tom Kristensen in the team that has made a habit, in recent years,…
Les Vingt-Quatre Heures du Mans held little interest for me. A motor racing fan since I was five years old, when my parents took me to Goodwood, it was Grand…
By Oliver Gavin It was a dark and stormy race… The 2001 24 Hours of Le Mans was certainly a baptism of fire. In fact, the extended periods of torrential…