24 Hours of Le Mans

At the E3 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles this week, Forza is displaying three one-off Xbox controllers honoring Ford Motor Company's [NYSE:F] achievements at the prestigious 24 Hours of Le Mans. The blue, black and red controllers match the liveries sported by Ford's 1960s efforts to...

The 83rd running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans has come and gone, and with it, we have a new (old) overall victor: Porsche. Displacing the dominant Audi Sport Racing team in the world’s greatest endurance race for the first time since its return to Le Mans racing last year, Porsche not only took...

The new 2012 Porsche 911 is set for a world debut at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show but barely disguised prototypes can already be seen testing in the south of Germany.

At the time of writing, we’re now into the final hours of this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans race. You can get a feel for what it’s like driving around the 8.5-mile Circuit de la Sarthe where the race is held thanks to this interactive video. ALSO SEE: Porsche One-Two Finish At 2015...

While this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans rages on, we have some news from the track. French automaker Renault presented a new concept car in Le Mans that previews its new Alpine-branded sports car set for launch in 2016. It’s called the Alpine Celebration, and its arrival also marks 60...

This weekend is the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the highlight of the World Endurance Championship and one of the most popular motorsport events of the year. While the premier LMP1 class draws most of the attention, when it comes to cars that you and I can actually drive then it’s the...

BMW hasn’t competed in the 24 Hours of Le Mans since 1999, when its V12 LMR secured the first and only overall victory for the German automaker in the prestigious race. Now, BMW might be planning a comeback, though the goal this time isn’t thought to be competing with the likes of...

Aston Martin has revealed a special new livery for the number 97 Vantage GTE race car that will be competing in this weekend’s 24 Hours of Le Mans, the highlight of the 2015 World Endurance Championship. Designed by artist Tobias Rahberger, it uses various optical effects to make the...

A trio of Porsche 919 Hybrids will be lining up on the grid in this weekend’s 24 Hours of Le Mans, and during the race you'll be able to bid on a 919 Hybrid of your own. Well, a life-size replica at least. Porsche’s Asia Pacific division will auction off the replica to help raise funds...

Nissan and its radical GT-R LM NISMO are currently in France taking part in the official testing for the 24 Hours of Le Mans, which this year runs the weekend starting June 13. Nissan is entering three of its front-wheel-drive racers in the event’s premier LMP1 class, going up against the...

Nissan missed the first two rounds of the 2015 World Endurance Championship but it’s now in final preparation mode for the series highlight, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, scheduled for the weekend commencing June 13. Nissan plans to field three of its front-wheel-drive GT-R LM NISMO race cars in...

The McLaren F1 secured its place in motorsport history 20 years ago when five lightly modified examples wearing the GTR badge crossed the finish line of the world’s most famous endurance race in France to complete one of the most important results the event had ever seen. We are, of course...

Renault has been teasing sports car fans for a number of years now. How you ask? By showing off an Alpine concept that has us all drooling. It was shown to the world a few years back, and soon after production plans for a new sports car, possibly dubbed the AS1, were confirmed. Now though, it seems...

Having already missed April 12’s opening round of the 2015 World Endurance Championship at the Silverstone Circuit in the U.K., Nissan has confirmed that its new GT-R LM NISMO LMP1 racer won’t be ready for the next round at Belgium’s Spa-Francorchamps on May 2 but will be on the...

A new season of the World Endurance Championship gets underway this weekend, with the first event on the eight-race calendar being the 6 Hours of Silverstone in the U.K. Having already had a close look at the Audi R18 e-tron quattro, the new Nissan GTR LM NISMO and the Toyota TS040 Hybrid for the...

If you had said only a few years ago that a video game fanatic would one day be racing in top level motorsport, based purely on their skill in popular racing sims like Gran Turismo, it’s safe to say that virtually everyone you came across would have doubted your claims. Today, however, we...

Nissan’s new LMP1 hybrid race car set for the 2015 World Endurance Championship, which includes the prestigious 24 Hours of Le Mans, was revealed during yesterday’s Super Bowl XLIX in which the New England Patriots defeated the Seattle Seahawks 28–24. The new race car, whose...

Nissan is venturing into the Le Mans world with its all-new GT-R LM Nismo LMP1 prototype racer. The car is quite different from the competition it will be racing against thanks to its front-engine, front-wheel-drive layout. ALSO SEE: How To Drift Hot Wheels (Yes, Really): Video The rest of the...

The reigning champion in the World Endurance Championship, Japanese automaker Toyota, will be out to defend its title in the premier LMP1 category this season with its hugely successful TS040 Hybrid race car. The TS040 Hybrid made its debut in 2014 and won five out of the eight races for team...

Nissan has released the first photo of its all-new race car that will compete this year in the premier LMP1 category of the World Endurance Championship, which also means racing alongside the likes of Audi, Porsche and Toyota at the prestigious 24 Hours of Le Mans. Nissan first confirmed its...