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Peugeot unveils its Le Mans Hypercar
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…
100 years of Le Mans
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Le Mans celebrates a century of innovation, daring and brilliance at this weekend’s running of the 24 Hour event.
As modern Hypercars battle to join the greats of decades past, we look back at the moments that made an endurance test into the world’s greatest race, and ahead to who will come out on top in 2023.
Le Mans 24 Hours: 100 years at the limit
Top 100 Le Mans moments
Latest on Le Mans – past and present
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Know your Le Mans Hypercar!
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…
Le Mans News
Peugeot reveals radical 9X8 Le Mans Hypercar for 2022 WEC entry
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
Sports Car News
Aston Martin Valkyrie AMR Pro revives Le Mans hypercar project
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…
Le Mans News
Mazda 787B’s giant-killing ’91 Le Mans win: ‘None of us thought we could actually win 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
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Toyota finally faces a new challenger
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…
Le Mans News
Jenson Button says ‘If I’m not on the Le Mans 2023 grid, there’s something wrong!’
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
Auctions
Hailwood and Hobbs Porsche 917 K for sale with record $16m auction estimate
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…
Le Mans News
BMW will return to top-level endurance racing in 2023 with LMDh prototype
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…
Archive
Peugeot unveils its Le Mans Hypercar
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…
Archive
Know your Le Mans Hypercar!
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…
Le Mans News
Peugeot reveals radical 9X8 Le Mans Hypercar for 2022 WEC entry
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
Sports Car News
Aston Martin Valkyrie AMR Pro revives Le Mans hypercar project
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…
Le Mans News
Mazda 787B’s giant-killing ’91 Le Mans win: ‘None of us thought we could actually win 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
Archive
Toyota finally faces a new challenger
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…
Le Mans News
Jenson Button says ‘If I’m not on the Le Mans 2023 grid, there’s something wrong!’
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
Auctions
Hailwood and Hobbs Porsche 917 K for sale with record $16m auction estimate
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…
Le Mans News
BMW will return to top-level endurance racing in 2023 with LMDh prototype
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…