Le Mans (Sarthe), June 14th. The Le Mans 24-hour race carries with it more tradition and history than any other event in the minds of most people and the occasion…
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The formation finish, staged for the benefit of the cameras, has become commonplace at Le Mans thanks to a certain manufacturer from Germany. Before Audi’s domination of the event, though,…
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Take out of the equation those pedal-to-metal laps around the old eight-mile Spa-Francorchamps or the pre-Hella Licht-S Osterreichring, and a Porsche 917 couldn't live with a Formula 1 car in…
Everybody loves a trier – although I’m not sure that the world’s biggest manufacturer of cars will (initially) thank me for calling it such. Admittedly Toyota is today more of…
From a personal perspective, Le Mans has hosted far more heartbreaking 24-hour races than this and you need look back no further than last year to know it. And while…
Audi scored its 13th victory in 15 attempts at the Le Mans 24 Hours, and Andre Lotterer, Benoit Treluyer and Marcel Fassler their third in four years, but only after one…
Kazuki Nakajima stole Porsche’s thunder by securing pole position for Toyota in qualifying for the Le Mans 24 Hours. The Japanese, who shares his TS040 Hybrid with Stephane Sarrazin and…
The Silverstone 6 Hours on Easter Sunday gave us our first taste of the mouth-watering battle we’ve all been anticipating in the premier class of sports car racing. Porsche vs…
A series in which Motor Sport’s features editor raids the loft to salvage grainy fragments from his racing past. Le Mans 24 Hours, June 10-11 1978 I’m not ashamed to admit…
No other manufacturer has had a more profound effect on the history of sports car racing than Porsche. In endurance racing’s peak in the 1970s and ‘80s the Stuttgart firm…
If you’ve an idle 15 minutes any time soon, could I suggest you spend it watching the last 15 minutes of the Bathurst 12 Hour, held at the wondrous Mount Panorama…
Will Porsche and Audi be allowed to fight to the finish at Le Mans this year? It is a question I am asked quite a lot at the moment as…
Taken from the July 1997 issue of Motor Sport On and off, Mario Andretti has been trying to win Le Mans for more than 30 years. The place has hardly…
A Porsche winning its class at Le Mans is nothing new but the events of this year's 24 Hours made the company's victory celebrations harder to manage. It seems wrong…
For all that was good about it, and there was more about what I love about Le Mans in 2013 than any I can recall – constantly changing weather, unbelievable…
It was inevitable that triumph would be tempered by tears. Given what had happened at the start of this year’s Le Mans 24 Hours, it would have been fitting to…
