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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.
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
With an influx of new Hypercar manufacturers, it would appear that the good times are rolling for WEC – but not all is well within the paddock. Last year’s Le…
Kévin Estre is enjoying himself. He and his Porsche team-mates have been in control of the race for almost nine hours, everything running smoothly through the desert night. Then, suddenly,…
Relief all round on the grippy subject of motor sport tyre supply this month after confirmation that the Avon brand has been saved by a newly created company that flips…
The story of Jean Rondeau, the last garagista to win the Le Mans 24 Hours, is a tale of grit, determination and against-the-odds endeavour that propelled the Frenchman from near-obscurity…
Robert Kubica was set to be Ferrari’s next star F1 driver until he suffered a devastating accident in 2011. Now, 13 years on, the Pole is finally for the Scuderia — in a WEC Hypercar. He tells James Elson how he never gave up on the dream
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
With an influx of new Hypercar manufacturers, it would appear that the good times are rolling for WEC – but not all is well within the paddock. Last year’s Le…
Kévin Estre is enjoying himself. He and his Porsche team-mates have been in control of the race for almost nine hours, everything running smoothly through the desert night. Then, suddenly,…
Relief all round on the grippy subject of motor sport tyre supply this month after confirmation that the Avon brand has been saved by a newly created company that flips…
The story of Jean Rondeau, the last garagista to win the Le Mans 24 Hours, is a tale of grit, determination and against-the-odds endeavour that propelled the Frenchman from near-obscurity…
Robert Kubica was set to be Ferrari’s next star F1 driver until he suffered a devastating accident in 2011. Now, 13 years on, the Pole is finally for the Scuderia — in a WEC Hypercar. He tells James Elson how he never gave up on the dream
