24 Hours of Le Mans News
- Le Mans starts to come alive
All the teams have set up camp in their respective garages and the mechanics are either attending scrutineering or putting the finishing touches to their preparations. The paddock is also filling up fast with motorhomes and hospitality facilities.
Audi’s two-storied glass building is particularly impressive and takes the top prize for elegance and style. There...
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- Shakedown testing
With a week to go before practice begins ahead of the 2011 Le Mans 24 Hours, the teams have been shaking down their respective cars.
The motorhomes and hospitality facilities are in the process of setting up camp in the paddock at Le Mans. Meanwhile, the teams have been performing ‘systems check’ tests at different circuits in Europe before travelling to the...
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- A day in the life of Allen McNish: Video
Allan McNish, Audi driver, explains us the various difficulties which he meets when he drives to Le Mans 24 Hours.
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- MICHELIN Pilot Super Sport
Born From Endurance Racing For The Most Exhilarating Drive!
All of the technology which goes in to making Michelin tyres, and especially the brand new Pilot Super Sport brand of road tyres, is born and bred on the race track.
The long hours of hard work which Michelin’s engineers and designers put in to improving grip and, therefore,...
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- Michelin’s quick guide to the Le Mans 24 Hours
One year in the making, around a quarter of a million spectators trackside and a television audience of tens of millions – no other sporting event in the world is like the Le Mans 24 Hours which takes place over the weekend 11/12 June.
Michelin has been associated with the famous race since its inception all the way back in 1923, the birth of a winning partnership with the...
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- Michelin at Le Mans...a brief history
Michelin’s involvement in motorsport is renowned the world over but what isn’t necessarily given due credit is the manufacturer’s massive success story at the Le Mans 24 Hours Race.
Throughout its history Michelin has established a huge profile at the pinnacle of both four-wheel and two-wheeled racing, on circuits and rally stages. Le Mans though has...
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- Interview with CRS Racing’s Andrew Kirkaldy
Over the past few years British squad CRS Racing has become one of the foremost GT and sportscar operations to emerge on the global stage, achieving great success at every level, but at Le Mans next month the team will achieve a long-held dream of competing in the 24 Hours Race for the first time.
Headed by principal Andrew Kirkaldy, a former McLaren Autosport BRDC...
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- Star Interview...Peugeot’s Anthony Davidson
Anthony Davidson heads into this year’s Le Mans 24 Hours Race with a very realistic opportunity to achieve the victory he desperately craves in the endurance classic – the young Briton spearheading Peugeot’s factory team alongside fellow ex-Formula One drivers Alexander Wurz and Marc Gene.
Truly a world-class talent, the 32-year-old never quite...
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- MICHELIN Pilot Super Sport UK Launch, Silverstone
We threw open the doors to our Pilot Super Sport test at the Porsche Performance Driving Centre, Silverstone in the first week of May and took a group of enthusiastic drivers behind the curtain to try our tyres against the opposition. And if that wasn’t enough of a risk, we chose some people from this country’s most popular and influential motoring forums like Piston Heads...
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- Interview with Le Mans ace Allan McNish
Scotland’s Allan McNish is unquestionably one of the most successful sportscar racers the UK has ever produced – a two-time Le Mans 24 Hours winner, in 1998 and 2008, and a podium finisher for the past couple of years...using Michelin tyres of course!
“Every year I can’t help but get excited when I think about it as it’s not just another...
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