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Throughout this month, we will bring you a very special Advent calendar dedicated to remarkable stories and anecdotes from the legendary 24 Hours of Le Mans. Today, here is a look back at the 1985 edition won by Italian driver Paolo Barilla, the heir to an agribusiness empire..
There have been a couple of times where the future of the iconic Porsche 911 balanced on a knife-edge. One ...
How Porsche Became the Standard for Excellence at 24 Hours of Le Mans Autoweek 12/25/2020 Ben Barry © Klemantaski Collection - Getty Images Victories, Innovation Define Porsche's 50 Years of Success at the 24 Hours of Le Mans Porsche has won Le Mans a record 19 times since 1970. The most recent, with the all-wheel-drive hybrid 919 in 2017, couldn’t have been further removed from the first in the fearsome 917, a race car with a 246 mph top speed if only rudimentary aerodynamics, but Porsche’s victories thread between these eras like stitches through Le Mans history. ...