Le Mans News

Team Bentley returns to Le Mans this weekend to start the final phase of its three year campaign to win the famed 24-hour race once more, some 73 years after its last historic victory.

JML Team Panoz has arrived in Le Mans for this weekend's Preliminary Practice day with it sights firmly set on continuing the team's strong form from the 12 Hours of Sebring.

Team Carsport Modena may have learned a lot from its Sebring test and race results, but ventured to Vallelunga last week to put more miles on its new Pagani Zonda GR ahead of its next outing at Le Mans.

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GT ace Rob Barff has his sites set on Le Mans this season, the GT ace driving for RaceSport Salibury, with support from Chamberlain Motorsports and the TVR factory.

Mark Blundell, Le Mans winner in 1992, will race with Bentley at the famous 24 Hour race this year, and here the Brit chats about his latest appointment, how it affects his relationship with MG, his other plans for 2003 and much, much more. Get reading...

Team Nasamax will hope to demonstrate to the world that renewable fuels can compete in the high technology arena of international motorsport, as it enters the world's first such fuelled prototype for the Le Mans 24 Hours race in June.

Team Bentley has confirmed the final details of its 2003 racing programme, registering two-car entries for both Le Mans and Sebring and tabbing ex-Formula One drivers Johnny Herbert, David Brabham and Mark Blundell to drive the second car.

Eddie Irvine has turned down an opportunity to join Bentley's 2003 Le Mans assault, preferring instead to keep his limited options open in Formula One.

The idea to run a 24-hour race at Le Mans was born in 1922 at the Salon de l?Automobile in Paris. At the same location, some eighty years later, the race organising Automobile Club de l?Ouest [ACO] handed over the historic Le Mans trophy to Audi.

Together with the chairman of the board of AUDI AG, Dr Martin Winterkorn, around 4000 Audi and motorsport fans celebrated Audi?s triple victory at the Le Mans 24 Hour race in the Audi Forum at Ingolstadt on Tuesday evening.

Shortly after returning from its momentous showing in the 2002 Le Mans 24-hour race, the DEWALT/RSS Morgan Aero 8 will take part in the Hillclimb competition at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, piloted by Le Mans drivers, Richard Stanton and Steve Hyde, who are joined for this special occasion by

London based Piper Design, a leading British design engineering company, is currently developing its PO1 LMP900 Sportscar with the aim of competing in next year's Le Mans 24 Hour race.

Two leading British entries in the 70th Le Mans 24 Hours hit problems in the 13th hour, as the GTS leading Prodrive Ferrari caught alight and the sole Bentley visited the gravel trap.

Canadian Corvette driver Ron Fellows has been rendered hors de combat after going down with a bout of food poisoning at the Le Mans 24 Hours.

At 3.00am on Friday morning David Brabham, Jan Magnussen and Bryan Herta faced the realization that they could miss this year's Le Mans 24 Hour.

At 3.00am on Friday morning David Brabham, Jan Magnussen and Bryan Herta faced the realization that they could miss this year's Le Mans 24 Hour. A fire had broken out in the car after Bryan Herta had struck some debris which punched a hole in the floor and damaged the oil filter.

Rumours that have circulated at Le Mans about the N.5 Audi R8, the Audi Sport Japan Team Goh car of Ara/Dalmas/Katoh, having had a huge accident on Wednesday night appear to be firming up.

Ascari's Le Mans effort looks to have ended early with a dramatic accident for Werner Lupberger in the #27 car as the rear suspension failed going in to Indianapolis.

ORECA Group, leaders in endurance racing, and Dassault System's today announced that ORECA Motorsport uses CATIA V5 and SMARTEAM solutions for designing the prototypes for their new 24 hours of Le Mans cars.

The aurally-exciting Morgan Aero 8 is rapidly turning into the car the Le Mans crowd are adopting this year. A superb lap from Le Mans rookie Richard Hay ensured the car easily qualified in the GT category, and Crash asked Richard how he was enjoying his Le Mans:

The Le Mans timetable means that Friday is a day with no track activity, giving the teams the opportunity to prepare their cars for tomorrow's race. Running the two MG Sport and Racing cars is the CMS team - led by the hugely experienced Hugh Chamberlain.

MG Sport and Racing will start the 2002 Le Mans 24-Hours with their cars sixth and twelfth on the 50-car grid.

Klaus Zwart's Ascari marque enter this year's 24 Hours of Le Mans with only a single Judd powered KZR1 LMP900 prototype after being snubbed by the French race organisers but after going on a winter diet the car is much lighter and still hasn't lost her looks.