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Welcome to 24 Hour Legends
There is simply nothing like it anywhere else in the world of sport. While twenty-four-hour races are nothing new and…
24hr Legends 2025
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Le Mans top 50 drivers
Taken from Motor Sport June 2019 50. Tomáš Enge Years: 2002-10 Starts: 9 Best result: 4th 2009; 1st in class…
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Woolf Barnato: king of the Bentley Boys
Taken from Motor sport, July 2018 In the run-up to the 2018 Le Mans 24-Hour race the thought occurred that…
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Peter Walker: Le Mans’ forgotten hero
Taken from Motor Sport, February 1996 Frequented by ordinary, everyday drinking folk there isn’t, and never has been, anything particularly…
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Lunch with Derek Bell, 2009
Taken from Motor sport, September 2009 Derek Bell is, quintessentially, an Englishman. He has raced with enormous success in the…
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“Le Mans back then was beyond dangerous”
Taken from Motor sport, June 2005 What do you think of when you hear the words ‘Aston Martin’? If you’re…
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Jaguar D-type: Le Mans’ triple winner
Taken from Motor Sport, June 2004 Down the decades numerous cars have claimed to draw inspiration from the aerospace industry,…
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Voices of the D-Type Jaguar
Sir Stirling Moss Works driver, 1954 Those who drove the D-type in period have mixed feelings about the car. And…
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Porsche 956 & 962 face-off
Photography Marc Riccioni / Taken from Motor Sport, June 2022 These are none other than the first and last Porsches…
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Pivotal Porsche – the 956/962 years
1982 Not as easy as 1-2-3 Porsche laid down a marker with the 956 on its Le Mans 24 Hours…
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The livery birds: those Porsche paint jobs
1: Joest Racing 956B, 1985 Le Mans winner. 2: Kremer Leyton House 962C, 1989 Le Mans, retired. 3: Obermaier Racing…
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The beast from the east: Nissan R89C
Taken from Motor Sport, January 2022 At the end of a year in which Honda of Japan had shone so…
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Mazda 787B: de-fanging the Jaguars
Taken from Motor Sport, June 2001 The finish of Le Mans is always a great occasion, but this one is…
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“He’s no braggart, Ron Gaudion”
Taken from Motor Sport, April 2018 He’s no braggart, Ron Gaudion. If you had been team mechanic on Jaguar D-types…
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No country for old men?
Words Rob Widdows Taken from Motor Sport, August 2007 Pescarolo Sport had garage number one at Le Mans in 2007,…
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Home hero 1980: Jean Rondeau
Taken From Motor Sport, September 2021 The story of Jean Rondeau, the last garagista to win the Le Mans 24…
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Le Mans’ closest finish – 1969
Taken from Motor Sport, June 2001 Le Mans 1969 The 1969 Le Mans 24 hours is acknowledged as one of…
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Renault revolution: the road to a French victory
Taken from Motor Sport, June 2003 Judging by how far the man holding the microphone-on-a-stick jumps back as the car…
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Allan McNish on his Le Mans triple
My driving career spanned four decades, from junior karting in the 1980s through to my final season with Audi in…
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Choose your enemies well
One question on Audi back in the 2000s, and which was also relevant to Toyota more recently in sports car…
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