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Who’s the most successful manufacturer at Le Mans? Porsche, Toyota & more

Winning the gruelling Le Mans 24 Hours has been one of the big goals for manufacturers since the race was first run in 1923.

Autosport · May 24, 2023

Archive: How an ingenious fix prevented a movie legend from winning Le Mans

The idea of a fifty-something Hollywood megastar, a future Oscar winner no less, pitching up at the Le Mans 24 Hours and winning the thing on his debut sounds absurd. But it nearly happened in 1979 in a plot line so fanciful that it would have been laughed out of…

Autosport · May 24, 2023

McLaren reveals special 'Triple Crown' celebration livery for Monaco and Spanish F1 races

For the next two F1 rounds, the MCL60 cars driven by Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri will feature a colour scheme that harks back to its successes at the Indianapolis 500, Monaco GP and Le Mans 24 Hours.

Autosport · May 23, 2023

Petrucci “will never forget” Le Mans MotoGP comeback “gift”

The double MotoGP race winner was drafted in by the factory Ducati squad for last weekend’s Le Mans round to replace the injured Enea Bastianini.

Motorsport · May 17, 2023

Peugeot keeping focus on reliability above performance for Le Mans return

Olivier Jansonnie, technical director of the 9X8 project at Peugeot Sport, insisted that there is no change in direction at the team despite clean races for its pair of entries in the Hypercar class in each of the past two rounds of the World Endurance Championship at Portimao and then…

Autosport · May 16, 2023

Ranking the top 10 Le Mans races of all time

Ahead of the 100th anniversary of the Le Mans 24 Hours, Autosport has revisited and updated a top 10 list which first ran ahead of the 2019 race covering the greatest editions of the race in its history.

Autosport · May 12, 2023

Cadillac targets expanding factory WEC effort to two cars in 2024

A WEC campaign in 2024 of an expanded two Ganassi-run Cadillac Racing entries is the “correct engineering way to do it”, according to Mark Stielow, director of motorsport competition engineering at parent company General Motors.

Autosport · May 12, 2023

Magazine: F1 Miami GP review, Peugeot's Le Mans story

That’s more like the Verstappen we expected in 2023. After Sergio Perez twice managed to hold on out front as the Dutchman came through the pack in Saudi Arabia and Azerbaijan, the reigning double world champion proved unstoppable in the United States.

Autosport · May 11, 2023

Ranking the 10 greatest Le Mans cars

It’s one of the classic motorsport debates. There have been many brilliant Le Mans cars in the century since the inaugural event, but which are the greatest?

Autosport · May 6, 2023

Gutierrez joins Glickenhaus for Le Mans as full entry list revealed

The Mexican, who made 59 grand prix starts for Sauber and Haas in F1, has been brought into the Glickenhaus Racing line-up together with Nathanael Berthon to drive its additional Le Mans Hypercar entered for the French enduro on 10/11 June.

Autosport · May 5, 2023