Le Mans Features
In-depth Le Mans features and Le Mans exclusive articles from Crash.
Who could be the next manufacturer to join the Hypercar class at Le Mans?
With one of the best Le Mans races of recent time in the books, we look at how the Hypercar class could be even more dynamic in 2025 and beyond.
Who are the 16 ex-Formula 1 drivers competing at the 2024 Le Mans 24h race?
Who are the 16 former Formula 1 drivers competing at the Le Mans 24h race in 2024 and who stands the best chance of success?
Who are the favourites to win the 2024 Le Mans 24h race?
With just over a month to go before the historic 24 hour of Le Mans race, we look at the favourites for victory.
How the cruelty of Le Mans struck Toyota again
How fitting that this, an FIA World Endurance Championship season that was deemed to be oh-so-predictable, would offer a late sting in the tail. And where else but at Le Mans, the cruellest of all motor races?
Alonso: From WEC rookie to history maker?
Fernando Alonso only started driving a Toyota Gazoo Racing LMP1 car 19 months ago at the World Endurance Championship Rookie Test in Bahrain but since then he has enjoyed a rapid rise passing milestones along the way.
How will Fernando Alonso’s WEC and Le Mans adventure be remembered?
Fernando Alonso will draw the curtain on his time in the FIA World Endurance Championship this weekend when he makes his second appearance at the 24 Hours of Le Mans with his sights set on a drivers’ title victory.
The F1 grid contesting the 2019 Le Mans 24 Hours
21 former Formula 1 drivers line up on the 2019 Le Mans 24 Hours grid boasting a collective 1,232 Grand Prix starts and 36 victories.
The winning formula that keeps Dunlop’s racing rubber on top
Having just celebrated its 130th Birthday on June 14, British tyre manufacturer Dunlop heads into this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans this weekend looking to claim an eighth consecutive victory at the Circuit de la Sarthe.
Can Toyota really lose the 24 Hours of Le Mans?
Maybe just by writing this headline, fate has been tempted. Maybe we’re set for the same heartache that has burdened Toyota in recent years. Or maybe, this time around, Toyota will finally take its elusive maiden victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Not Just Alonso: 5 Stories to Watch at the 24 Hours of Le Mans
As we near the start of the 2018 24 Hours of Le Mans at 3pm on Saturday, the focus of the pre-race coverage has, unsurprisingly, centred on one driver: Fernando Alonso.
F1 arrives at Le Mans in 2018
Formula 1 drivers have never been strangers to Le Mans but amid the fanfare surrounding Fernando Alonso’s debut at the iconic 24 hour race it appears a number of former famous faces of Grand Prix racing have been pulled to the attraction.
The fictional hero racing for real at the Le Mans 24 Hours
Michel Vaillant may not be real but he could win the Le Mans 24 Hours this year...
Le Mans 24 Hours: Returning to where tears and champagne flow
Last year's heart-breaking end to Toyota's victory charge demonstrates how the magic and passion of Le Mans 24 Hours burns so brightly. Now it is time to return.
Mark Webber: The career that could have been
Mark Webber is known-best for his F1 exploits, but his racing career could have been very different but for 'that' crash at the 1999 Le Mans 24 Hours...
Earl Bamber: What happened to the forgotten Le Mans winner
After Nico Hulkenberg and Nicky Tandy grabbed the headlines as Le Mans winners in 2015, what happened to their unknown co-driver?
Max Yamabiko: The enigma of Nissan's Le Mans contender
Nissan's much anticipated LMP1 debut nears with the Le Mans 24 Hours... but as Max Yamabiko explains, the GT-R LM NISMO remains something of an enigma
Kate Walker: MG's Dancing Daughters
On Le Mans weekend, Crash.net's Kate Walker looks back at some all-women teams who made their mark during the 24 Hours...
Be 007 for a day - or Lewis Hamilton...
Fancy being James Bond for a day, and experiencing the ultimate thrill of getting behind the wheel of an Aston Martin and letting rip around one of the UK's premier race circuits? That's what I was asked too. Silly question really...
A lap of La Sarthe.
Ahead of the Le Mans 24 Hours this weekend in France, the Audi factory drivers talk through a lap of the famous La Sarthe circuit... Frank Biela on the Dunlop corner/chicane:
The Audi R10 - a 'tyre-ing' project.
On Saturday 17 June, Audi will become the first major manufacturer to launch an assault on the Le Mans 24 Hours with a diesel powered car - and Michelin will play an important role in trying to help the R10 follow in the footsteps of the ultra successful R8.
Andy Wallace's lap of Le Mans.
This weekend the eyes of the motorsport world will be firmly fixed on France for the 73rd running of the most famous endurance race of them all - the Le Mans 24 Hours.
Rick Pearson looks to the new LMES season.
As one of the driver for the Tracsport team, Rick Pearson is a regular contributor to Crash.net in the teams monthly 'Tracsport Talkback' column.
Working the Wheel: Le Mans.
Le Mans is right there alongside Monaco, Monza and the Nurburgring as one of the top circuits in motorsport, a venue where drivers dream of racing in one of the most famous races that there is.
Tracsport TalkBack: From Sweden to Le Mans.
The Tracsport team has had an amazing year, jumping from Caterham racing into the thick of the action in the Le Mans Endurance Series.