Le Mans News

Ferrari prevails again after an intense rain-hit 2024 Le Mans 24 Hours, making it back-to-back victories after following its 2023 triumph

He's achieved a string of victories in some of motor sport's legendary races, but a Le Mans win still eludes Roger Penske. He's determined to change that in 2024

Yifei Ye is Ferrari's first ever Chinese works driver – will he become Le Mans' first ever Chinese overall winner too?

Tyre warmers have been banned for the 2024 Le Mans 24 Hours, giving drivers a bigger challenge when they exit the pits — and potentially affecting the outcome of the race

James Calado made history last year as he became another British Ferrari Le Mans winner – and hero. He speaks to James Elson about trying to go back-to-back in 2024

Jota's No12 Porsche 963 Hypercar will take the start of the 2024 Le Mans 24 Hours race after a whirlwind effort to rebuild the entire car. Here's the remarkable story of determination and sleeplessness

Mick Schumacher is set to follow in the enduro wheel tracks of his father this weekend, as he gears up to race for Alpine at Le Mans — an opportunity, as he tells
James Elson, which could help prove his behind-the-wheel ability

Alpine's Hypercar makes its Le Mans debut this weekend, 46 years after its last victory. Its motor sport boss, Bruno Famin, says the team is harnessing history to beat Peugeot in a rare top-level battle between French teams

My driving career spanned four decades, from junior karting in the 1980s through to my final season with Audi in 2013. The first decade of the millennium was certainly a…

Le Mans legend Derek Bell commemorates 100 years of Motor Sport on this special edition podcast

David and Goliath? It’s an old sporting cliché. But in biblical terms the parallel to plucky British privateer Jota taking on and attempting to beat the mighty manufacturers at the…

Twenty-five years ago, Sam Hignett’s single-seater story petered out – and something more nourishing and sustainable began. A graduate of the Jim Russell Racing School at Donington under John Kirkpatrick,…

The timing of BMW’s return to the Le Mans 24 Hours in pursuit of overall victory, a quarter of a century on from the V12 LMR’s triumph, is a timely…

It wasn’t an auspicious start. Less than an hour into BMW’s 1999 Le Mans 24 Hours campaign at the pre-event test one car was parked in the barriers, the other…

1. Don’t discount Toyota Twelve months ago, Toyota headed into the Le Mans 24 Hours as the clear favourite, though it ultimately lost out to Ferrari in a thrilling race…

The Porsche 917 made waves on its debut, eventually marking itself out as a sports car icon – is it your 'Race car of the Century'?

Dario Franchitti had a deal in principle to drive Porsche's all-conquering 919 in the 2015 WEC campaign before a horror IndyCar crash forced him into retirement. The Scotsman relives a world of 'what-ifs?' in Motor Sport's latest Centenary Stories podcast episode