This year's 24 Hours of Le Mans will be stronger than any before.
started as a science fair and turned into a hair-raising race the moment the green flag waved. This was 1923, when the number of horses in use in Europe still exceeded that of cars, though the global shift to the internal-combustion engine had begun about a decade earlier.If you’ve ever been through the Loire Valley and the tiny town of Le Mans, I don’t have to tell you it’s in the sticks. Ancient farm fields still rotate the same crops of beans, grapes, onions, leeks, and asparagus.
Today Le Mans is a celebrity of races. The words are synonymous with sports-car racing, obscuring the provincial origins. Billions are spent on the cars, which no longer have horns. This year is the race’s centenary and 91st running .is commemorating the race by not only looking back at the most fascinating moments in Le Mans history, but also treating it the way it was meant to be from the start: as a science fair gone nuts.
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