The date to remember, however, is June 2014, and the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
He has competed in the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the Rolex 24 At Daytona.
The car will be a contender in the Le Mans endurance race in France this summer.
He claims to have been in contact with Marseille and Le Mans over a possible summer transfer.
He'd won everything in sportscars except Le Mans, and he was crying because his last chance had gone.
This car generates real, live, Le Mans-quality ground effects, and it is ferocious.
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Among them will be a pair of roosters one Barbezieux and one Le Mans.
For his part, Mr Fabius emerges stronger from Le Mans than might appear.
Audi have now won seven of the last eight Le Mans 24-Hour races.
Bentley, the brand was known in the 1920s for the gentlemen playboys--Bentley Boys--who raced the fast cars at Le Mans.
It finished third at Le Mans that year and in 2003 claimed the top two spots in the 24-hour endurance race.
Senna, who is the son of Ayrton Senna's sister, Viviane Lalli, is driving in the Le Mans sportscar series this season.
It is the sixth time Audi have won the race, and the fourth Le Mans victory for both Biela and Pirro.
The most tragic incident occurred during the 1955 24 Hours of Le Mans, when two cars collided near the main stands.
The racing stripes the number 22 are an homage to the Porsche 917 that won the 1971 24 Hours of Le Mans.
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Major league racing took a brief hiatus and returned in 2007 and 2008 with the American Le Mans Series and IndyCar Series.
The MotoGP circus moves to France in two weeks time for the fourth race of the season at the famous Le Mans track.
Brazilian driver Jaime Melo Junior, who won two Le Mans 24-hour endurance races, has been arrested after crashing his car during a high-speed chase.
Forty-eight of each model will be made, with Continental GT models available this summer and Mulsanne Le Mans Edition models available in the fall.
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Otherwise, consumers would still be able to find names such as Chevelle, Cutlass, Fairlane, Granada, Le Mans, LTD and Reliant in new car showrooms.
Following their decision to withdraw from Formula 1, BMW will now focus on the touring car series, Formula BMW and the American Le Mans series.
The Zonda looks like what it is, a domesticated Le Mans prototype, a hard-eyed courtesan in a carbon-fiber corset laced with an assassin's piano wire.
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He wanted a tourbillon you could wear while driving Le Mans.
From Daytona to Le Mans to a rural road in Ireland, auto racing spectators have long been too close to the action when parts start flying.
Le Mans winner Marco Melandri holds a 24-point margin over Rossi in third, while Spanish newcomer Daniel Pedrosa is 21 points ahead of him in fourth.
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Peugeot also enjoyed success at Le Mans before the era of Audi dominance, winning in 1992 and 1993, but the French team has not competed since then.
Mr Melo, who won the Le Mans 24-hour race in 2008 and 2009, then reportedly switched off the headlights of his car and drove away at high speed.
Despite being 100 years since Renault won the first French Grand Prix at Le Mans, it was Italian team Ferrari celebrating with first and third on the podium.
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This one, an MT4 (chassis no. 1169) with a rather amazing racing pedigree, was made to compete in the 1955 Le Mans race but wasn't finished in time.
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