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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 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
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