The 2020 version of the 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race has been re-scheduled from June 13-14, 2020 to September 19-20, 2020 due, of course, to the coronavirus outbreak. “Today it is a question of stopping the spread of this virus,” said Pierre Fillon, president of the Automobile Club de l’Ouest (ACO). In last […]
Fernando Alonso – along with teammates Sebastian Buemi and Kazuki Nakajima – won the 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race for Toyota, which had never won the fabled endurance motor race. With no major automobile manufacturers in the race, Toyota had little competition though, as the SMP and Rebellion teams in their hybrid class […]
The No. 2 Porsche 919 won the 2017 version of the 24 Hours of Le Mans after every other leading car in its LMP1 class – most notably the Toyotas – either retired or encountered mechanical problems, leaving the Porsche to win the class by surviving the entire race. Due to the aforementioned attrition rate, […]
For the 13th time in the last 15 years, Audi has won the 24 Hours of LeMans endurance race. The Audi #2 e-tron Quattro with a driving team of Marcel Fassler, Andre Lotterer and Benoit Treluyer won the LMP1 class race ahead of the Audi #1 car in second and Toyota in third. It was […]