Last Friday, FIA WEC on their YouTube channel, posted an almost hour-long video with this year’s Le Mans race review. Nice for a recap.
Category: Le Mans
Porsche’s 20th victory at Le Mans?
That’s the idea with the new 963. Officially revealed yesterday at Goodwood, this is Porsche’s new LMDh weapon for 2023. Powered by a twin-turbo 4.6-liter V8 engine producing 671 hp, the car definitively has the looks. Let’s see if it also walks the walk and talks the talk.
Damn that looks good 🤩
Yep, Toyota did it again.
Well, a 1-2 win – not unexpected, was it? Even so, we had a Glickenhaus on the podium, which was quite nice to see. Some say that Toyota, Glickenhaus and Alpine were only “place holders” until things get really serious next year, when the “big boys” will be back. In LMP2 Jota did a great race, and this year was the last race for GTE-Pro, which was kind of sad to see. At least Ferrari didn’t win. Anything 🤣. Shame to see that no Corvette finished on the podium, though (and they started REALLY well).
In the end a nice race. The great part is that there’s just one year to go for Le Mans 2023 🏆.
REVIEW – Mazda 717C #60
1983 Mazda 717C #60 Pilots: T. Yorino, Y. Terada, Y. Katayama Team: Mazdaspeed Co. Ltd Race: 12th overall (first in C Jr. class) at Le Mans in 1983 Spark (pw) - HACHLM55 (diecast)
Review HERE
24 Heures du Mans 2022
This SATURDAY!!!! 😎😎😎
REVIEW – Dome Zero RL 81 #23
1981 Dome Zero RL 81 #23 Pilots: C. Craft, B. Evans Team: Dome Co. Ltd Race: 1st overall (P+5.0 class) at Le Mans in 1981 Spark (pw) - HACHLM51 (diecast)
Review HERE
It’s official: bulls will run at La Sarthe in 2024!
This was just posted on FIA WEC’s site: Lamborghini will offically race at Le Mans!
Lamborghini Squadra Corse will enter the FIA World Endurance Championship Hypercar class in 2024 with its first LMDh prototype, eligible for both FIA WEC and the IMSA WeatherTech Sports Car Championship (GTP class).
FIA WEC
Obviously Lamborghinis had raced at La Sarthe before, but this will be the first time for a factory effort. For me at least, this was always my gripe with Lamborghini. Looks like I can’t complain anymore.
It was about time! 🐮
REVIEW – Ford GT40 Mk. IV #1
1967 Ford GT40 Mk. IV #1 Pilots: D. Gurney, A. J. Foyt Team: Shelby-American Inc. Race: 1st overall (P+5.0 class) at Le Mans in 1967 Spark - 43LM67 (resin)
Review HERE
REVIEW – Alpine A470 #36
2017 Alpine A470 #36 Pilots: N. Lapierre, P. Thiriet, A. Negrão Team: Signatech Alpine Matmut Race: 5th overall (first in LMP2 class) at Le Mans in 2018 Spark - S7919 (resin)
Review HERE
REVIEW – Dome Zero RL 80 #12
1980 Dome Zero RL 80 #12 Pilots: C. Craft, B. Evans Team: Dome Co. Ltd Race: 25th overall (fourth in S+2.0 class) at Le Mans in 1980 Spark (pw) - HACHLM40 (diecast)
Review HERE