Car of the Week: This 1954 Jaguar Set a Speed Record at Le Mans. Now It Could Fetch $8.5 Million.
The 1954 example, piloted by Stirling Moss to 172.97 mph on the race’s Mulsanne Straight, will be sold through Broad Arrow ...
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Gordon Murray Says It’s Easier to Win an F1 Championship Than Le Mans—Here’s Why
Murray is best known as the designer of the McLaren F1, one of the greatest cars ever made, a version of which raced at Le Mans in 1995 and won. Murray also was the technical director of McLaren ...
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This Car Won Le Mans, and it Changed the Sport FOREVER
Whenever group C sports car racing is talked about, the image is that of insanity, distilled down and blown up in hundreds of cylinders across dozens of cars as they fought for some of the greatest ...
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Longtails: How the Mulsanne Straight Inspired Some of the Wildest Le Mans Race Cars
Jean Rédélé, who’d founded the French sports- and racing-car maker Alpine in 1955, dreamed of winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans. He entered Alpines, always powered by small-displacement Renault ...
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Aston Martin Valkyrie Le Mans hypercar revealed
Your browser does not support the audio element. Aston Martin has revealed its Valkyrie LMH (Le Mans Hypercar) race car. With this, it will compete in the top rung of ...
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Ford targets outright win at Le Mans from 2027 with LMDh car
Ford will enter the FIA World Endurance Championship's premier Hypercar class in 2027 Ford will compete with a factory team running a new LMDh race car Ford ... win at Le Mans for the first ...
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Ford Aims to Reclaim Le Mans Magic in 2027 with New LMDh Race Car
While Ford had a class victory in 2016 with its GT race car, its last overall win at Le Mans was in 1969. It's been almost 60 years since Ford won the overall crown at the 24 Hours of Le Mans ...
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Aston unveils Valkyrie as Le Mans Hypercar
But they plugged away undeterred, and in October 2023 it was confirmed that the Valkyrie Le Mans Hypercar would compete at Le Mans in 2025. Now the real thing has been revealed, set to be raced in ...
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Ferrari's 1965 Le Mans-winning car sold for $49 million
ROME - The Ferrari that won the 1965 edition of the prestigious Le Mans 24 Hours race was sold for ... with this specific car winning Ferrari’s sixth consecutive title on the “Circuit de ...
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Seinfeld's Porsche 917 from “Le Mans” fails to sell despite $25M bid
A Porsche 917 used for filming of “Le Mans” didn't sell at auction despite a $25 million bid The car is one of three 917s used for filming and the example owned by Steve McQueen The car's ...
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Aston Martin Valkyrie Hypercar Lives On, Though Only as a Race Car Seeking Le Mans Glory
As such, it always looked a lot more like a Le Mans prototype than an F1 single-seater race car. Production took place between November 2021 and December 2024 when it made way for the 1,064 ...