Enlarge / The new Porsche LMDh car, about to leave its garage at the Circuit de Catalunya in Spain. (credit: Porsche) Porsche’s next race car is so new that it still doesn’t have an official name. It’s not even due to enter its first race for more than 11 months. But there are few things […]
Enlarge / Peugeot’s 9X8 seen testing at Aragorn in Spain in late December 2021. (credit: Peugeot) With the introduction of the new Hypercar class, Peugeot will try to do something unheard of in more than 50 years—win the 24 Hours of Le Mans without a rear wing. The French automaker raised a few eyebrows when […]
Enlarge / GreenGT’s prototype hydrogen-powered racer. (credit: Dhananjay Khadilkar) Around 400 meters away from the buzz of the paddock during this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans stood a tent with two racing cars and a mobile fueling station. Every now and then, people wearing blue T-shirts bearing the logo of Mission H24 would walk […]
Enlarge / This sketch is all we’ve seen of Porsche’s forthcoming LMDh hybrid racer. But now we know that when it starts racing in 2023, it will be run by Team Penske. (credit: Porsche) In 2021, there is a real buzz building in the world of sports car racing. After many years of running incompatible […]
Peugeot is returning to Le Mans for the first time in over a decade with a new hybrid prototype called the 9X8. [credit: Peugeot Sport ] No race is as important to a French company like Peugeot as the 24 Hours of Le Guys. The annual endurance classic is arguably tougher than ever, now requiring […]
After winning the last couple of Le Mans races with its TS050, Toyota Gazoo Racing returns in 2021 with an all-new car for an all-new category. It’s called the GR010, and it will compete in the Le Mans Hypercar class. [credit: Toyota ] The future of the 24 Hours of Le Mans is resolving into […]