Le Mans: 24 Hours

For one long weekend every year since 1923, the eyes of the motor racing world have focused on a small town in northwest France whose name has become synonymous with the race that takes place annually on its outskirts. The 24 Hours of Le Mans is an instirution -- an event in which tradition, technology, international rivalry, an all-night party atmosphere, heat, dust. and the bleary-eyed dawn of the event's second day are as much a pan of the experience as the race itself. This book captures and distills the essence of ... Read More

For one long weekend every year since 1923, the eyes of the motor racing world have focused on a small town in northwest France whose name has become synonymous with the race that takes place annually on its outskirts. The 24 Hours of Le Mans is an instirution -- an event in which tradition, technology, international rivalry, an all-night party atmosphere, heat, dust. and the bleary-eyed dawn of the event's second day are as much a pan of the experience as the race itself. This book captures and distills the essence of LeMans, describing what makes the event so special. More than 200 photographs, many of them previously unpublished and taken from the LeMans archives, accompany a newly researched history of the race that presents all the pageantry represented by nearly eight decades of memorable moments and some of the greates drivers and technology in the history of motorsports. Read Less