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Le Mans 24 Hours safety car procedure: a full guide
The Le Mans 24 Hours uses just a single safety car, after new procedures in 2023 resulted in chaos and confusion
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.s
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
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‘I couldn’t believe what I’d just got to do’
The success of a track test depends on the car, the environment and its owner. The car was Porsche 917 chassis 22, painted to look like its Le Mans-winning sister…
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Why Porsche 917 terrified Attwood: ‘I knew it was going to be a problem the moment I saw it’
Richard Attwood strides into the pub, dapper as ever just days after his 85th birthday, and greets me with an enormous grin. The pub is significant, not for what, but…
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1952 Le Mans 24 Hours: when one man almost won the race solo
LEVEGH’S 23 HOURS OF LE MANS JUNE 1997 No one has ever managed to win Le Mans single-handedly, but in the early ’50s one man nearly did. Pierre Levegh, who…
Great Read
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Jean Rondeau: The only driver to win Le Mans in their own car
Jean Rondeau did not always play by the rules; anyone who had the nerve to test pukka Le Mans cars on the public roads was bound to be a little…
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How to win Le Mans: ‘It’s easy! Just put petrol in’
The Le Mans 24 Hours is like no other race. There is something about this more-than-100-year-old enduro that drags one back to give it another go, even after disaster or…
Archive
Le Mans 2025: teams and drivers in full
FERRARI Ferrari 499P Either factory entry will fancy snatching that Le Mans hat-trick for Ferrari, but the yellow AF Corse 499P has an equal chance of being in contention too.…
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Le Mans 2025: balance of performance
The Balance of Performance probably won’t decide who wins the Le Mans 24 Hours. But it could determine who doesn’t. In the two years since the mass influx of manufacturers…
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Le Mans 2025: what you need to know
1. Ferrari goes for the hat-trick Ferrari will complete a Le Mans 24 Hours hat-trick if it lifts the trophy this year. And the 499P Le Mans Hypercar will remain…
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Le Mans 24 Hours safety car procedure: a full guide
The Le Mans 24 Hours uses just a single safety car, after new procedures in 2023 resulted in chaos and confusion
Archive
‘I couldn’t believe what I’d just got to do’
The success of a track test depends on the car, the environment and its owner. The car was Porsche 917 chassis 22, painted to look like its Le Mans-winning sister…
Archive
Why Porsche 917 terrified Attwood: ‘I knew it was going to be a problem the moment I saw it’
Richard Attwood strides into the pub, dapper as ever just days after his 85th birthday, and greets me with an enormous grin. The pub is significant, not for what, but…
Archive
1952 Le Mans 24 Hours: when one man almost won the race solo
LEVEGH’S 23 HOURS OF LE MANS JUNE 1997 No one has ever managed to win Le Mans single-handedly, but in the early ’50s one man nearly did. Pierre Levegh, who…
Great Read
Archive
Jean Rondeau: The only driver to win Le Mans in their own car
Jean Rondeau did not always play by the rules; anyone who had the nerve to test pukka Le Mans cars on the public roads was bound to be a little…
Archive
How to win Le Mans: ‘It’s easy! Just put petrol in’
The Le Mans 24 Hours is like no other race. There is something about this more-than-100-year-old enduro that drags one back to give it another go, even after disaster or…
Archive
Le Mans 2025: teams and drivers in full
FERRARI Ferrari 499P Either factory entry will fancy snatching that Le Mans hat-trick for Ferrari, but the yellow AF Corse 499P has an equal chance of being in contention too.…
Archive
Le Mans 2025: balance of performance
The Balance of Performance probably won’t decide who wins the Le Mans 24 Hours. But it could determine who doesn’t. In the two years since the mass influx of manufacturers…
Archive
Le Mans 2025: what you need to know
1. Ferrari goes for the hat-trick Ferrari will complete a Le Mans 24 Hours hat-trick if it lifts the trophy this year. And the 499P Le Mans Hypercar will remain…
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