100 years of the world's greatest race

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Welcome to Le Mans 100

There is no race quite like the Le Mans 24 Hours. Across the course of its 100-year history, no other…

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1923-2023 Evolution

1923: The birth of the 24 Hours, with no winner... As well as founding a legend, the very first 24…

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1949 Post-war, racing returns at Le Mans. Well, for one driver at least...

It must have been like receiving a gift without the wrapping, handed to you in a carrier bag. The Hon…

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1953: Jaguar wins Le Mans at a record speed and changes the game...

If you’re going to make a mark, make a big one. Jaguar was still in the ‘promising youngster’ category when…

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1965: The last time Ferrari won at Le Mans

To younger fans, it’s a stretch to associate Ferrari with Le Mans. Sure, the pseudo-works AF Corse team kept the…

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1971: Porsche’s 917 lights up a ‘boring’ Le Mans entry...

Funny how perspectives change. Reporting the Le Mans 24 Hours for Motor Sport in 1971, Andrew Marriott mentioned that Jenks…

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1988: Jaguar finally breaks Porsche's stranglehold at Le Mans

Tom Walkinshaw was bang on when he predicted it would take three years for Jaguar to win the Le Mans…

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1999: Mercedes flips at Le Mans, leaving BMW to score big

You’ll see many a fierce battle through rose-tinted Ray-Bans, but 1999 was the real deal. Mercedes, Toyota, Nissan and BMW…

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2009: Peugeot wins at Le Mans to end Audi domination

Peugeot wasn’t ready to win the Le Mans 24 Hours in 2008, but that changed the following season. The 908…

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2015 Porsche wins at Le Mans during the peak of LMP1 rules

If the 2000s diesel boom ushered in a new age of efficiency at Le Mans, the hybrids that followed brought…

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Heroes of Le Mans

10. Allan McNish Years 1997-2013 Starts 14 Best result 1st 1998, 2008 & ’13 By his own admission, he’d considered…

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1925: Bentley takes on Le Mans

Better back then? Le Mans was an entirely different challenge in the 1920s. J. D. Benjafield was a part of…

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Tom Kristensen in a Bentley Blower - a meeting of Le Mans legends

D’you know Tivoli Gardens, in the centre of Copenhagen?” Tom Kristensen casts a quizzical glance across the table and perceives…

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Jaguar shocks Le Mans with second win

The Le Mans 24 Hours carries with it more tradition and history than any other event, and the occasion of…

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The Brits are coming

Stirling Moss preferred the C- to the D-type. The latter was tauter and faster – at Le Mans at least…

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Le Mans show must go on, despite 1955 tragedy

The tragic accident involving so many spectators which happened in the early stages of this year’s Le Mans 24 Hours…

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Ferrari's Le Mans glory days

The participation of Ferrari at Le Mans started in 1949 when Ferrari the company was but two years old, though…

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1965 Le Mans mystery — was there a third man in Ferrari win?

Official race results, once confirmed, are seldom questioned. This is certainly true of the most prestigious surviving road race of…

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1967 Le Mans 24 Hours: The greatest race of them all?

My lamented friend Jabby Crombac always considered the 1967 Le Mans 24 Hours to have been the greatest in the…

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Porsche 917: They created a monster!

In the late 1960s, the Commission Sportive Internationale was concerned that speeds of Group 6 prototype sports cars were becoming…