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It’s fair to say that this year’s racing calendar hasn’t exactly gone to plan. That’s why we’re about to settle down for one of our favorite 24 hours of racing of the year in mid-September — for the first time since 1968 — rather than its more common summer time slot.

The coronavirus outbreak continues to have an adverse effect on the motorsport calendar in 2020. Automobile Club de l’Ouest (ACO) has now confirmed that the 88th edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans is the latest event on the shelf, as efforts to curb the spread of the disease continue to ramp up.

If you were looking forward to watching Aston Martin’s Valkyrie compete in next season’s World Endurance Championship, including Le Mans, we’ve got some bad news for you. As of today, Aston has withdrawn its entry for the 2020-2021 season, while it “considers” its future participation.

The governing body of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the Automobile Club de l’Ouest (ACO) will shake up next year’s race yet with a new two-stage qualifying format. It replaces the three-session qualifying we’ve seen in recent years, as the top-class LMP1 cars make their final appearance.

Peugeot has confirmed plans to return to the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2022 with a new hypercar programme. Parent company Groupe PSA revealed the good news on Wednesday morning. The brief statement confirms its intentions to not only compete in Le Mans, but to contest in the 2022 World Endurance Championship (WEC) as a whole.

After 13 months of racing, the showpiece end to the 2018-19 FIA World Endurance Championship is upon us: the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Aston Martin has become the first manufacturer to reveal its Le Mans “hypercar”, under the new rules for 2020-2021.

Prepare to say farewell to the prototype era. A new set of rules agreed by the FIA and ACO confirms that the new top category will use hypercars more closely resembling manufacturers’ road cars, instead of cookie-cutter prototype race cars.

It’s time again for one of the greatest spectacles in racing, the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

This year is going to be a significant change for the World Endurance Championship. For a start, it’ll be 14 months long…

British sports car maker Ginetta has officially unveiled its new LMP1 race car, ahead of the 2018/19 World Endurance Championship.

It’s a little too early to say that the World Endurance Championship (WEC) is a series in crisis. The signs aren’t good though; only one manufacturer remains in the top LMP1 category as brands ditch the expensive hybrid category for the electric hum of Formula E.

The future of LMP1 is in doubt today, as Porsche has announced it too is terminating its involvement.

The Le Mans 24 Hours is an unforgiving race. With cars running at full throttle for significant periods and immense stops, Le Mans will test any machine.

If you’re anything like us you’ll be glued to the television or radio this weekend for the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

With 322 race starts to his name, Rubens Barrichello handily owns the title of most experienced Formula One driver. Despite never winning the driver’s championship, the Brazilian did finish second in points in 2002 and 2004 as Michael Schumacher’s teammate at Ferrari, and more recently third in 2009 during Brawn GP’s whirlwind single-season campaign.

With Le Mans only just over a month away, the final 60-car entry list has been revealed.

Toyota took a magnificent 1-2 victory at the 2017 6 Hours of Spa with the No. 8 car of Kazuki Nakajima, Anthony Davidson and Sebastien Buemi taking the checkered flag and their second victory in a row. It was Toyota’s first victory at Spa in two years.

The 2017 FIA World Endurance Championship got off to a thrilling start at Silverstone this past weekend. Toyota took a hard-fought victory overall, earning an early points lead in LMP1 over arch-rival Porsche.