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• Léon Bollée
  ...lée Automobiles''' was a French company founded by [[Léon Bollée]] in [[Le Mans]] to build a first vehicle called "Voiturette". ...r Léon Bollée by Hurtu & Diligeon, only the prototypes were made at the Le Mans factory.
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• Porsche 911 GT1
  ...cing car designed for competition in the GT1 class at the [[24 Hours of Le Mans]] and sold as a road car for homologation purposes. The roadgoing version w ...GT1 in 1995, announcing that it would compete at the 1996 [[24 Hours of Le Mans]]. In spite of its name, the car actually has very little in common with th
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• BMW V12 LM98
  ...port]]. This combination was successful in winning the 1995 24 Hours of Le Mans. However, by 1997 the F1 GTRs were no longer competitive against newer bree ...ting the car's chassis and develop its aerodynamics for the 24 Hours of Le Mans. At the same time, BMW Motorsport turned to [[Schnitzer Motorsport]], a lon
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• BMW V12 LMR
  |Category = Le Mans Prototype ...e[[ 24 Hours of Le Mans]]. Immediately following the [[1998 24 Hours of Le Mans]] in which both BMW V12 LMs had failed to finish due to mechanical difficul
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• Petit Le Mans
  The '''Petit Le Mans''' (French for ''little Le Mans'') is a [[sports car racing|sports car]] [[endurance racing|endurance]] rac ...Le Mans Series]]. It uses the rules established for the [[24 hours of Le Mans]] by the [[Automobile Club de l'Ouest]] (ACO), which are slightly modified
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• Bentley Speed 8
  ...e technology with the [[Audi]] [[Audi R8 Race Car|R8]]C (which cars won Le Mans the preceding 3 years). The Speed 8 marked [[Bentley Motors Limited|Bentley ...h the minimum weight mandated for the LM GTP class of the [[24 Hours of Le Mans]].
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• Jean Bugatti
  ...Type 57 tank-bodied racer]] which had just won at [[24 Hours of Le Mans|Le Mans]], not far from the factory on the highway near the village of Duppigheim,
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• Group C
  ...nd [[Group 6 (racing)|Group 6 Two Seater Racing Cars]] (open-top sportscar prototypes like [[Porsche 936]]). Group C was used in the FIA's [[World Sportscar Cham ...[[Le Mans 24 Hours|Le Mans]] in the mid-1970s. GTP was a class for roofed prototypes with certain dimensional restrictions, but instead of the more usual limits
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• Cadillac Northstar LMP
  ...Series]] as well as an attempt to return Cadillac to the [[24 Hours of Le Mans]] since they first entered in {{24hLM|1950}}. The Northstar LMPs were name ...fine-tune the engine until it was properly prepared to not only survive Le Mans, but also to beat the dominant [[Audi R8 (race car)|Audi R8]]s. GM would t
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• MR layout
  ...nship|Sports Prototypes]] as MR was sealed and Ferrari lost interest in Le Mans until the 1980's. The skyrocketing speeds and power of the [[Porsche 917|91
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• Toyota GT-One
  |Category=[[Le Mans Prototype|LMGTP]] ...t raced in the 1998 [[24 Hours of Le Mans|1998]] and 1999 [[24 Hours of Le Mans]].
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• Audi R15 TDI Plus
  |Category = [[Le Mans Prototype]] (LMP1) |Races = 6<!-- Up to the 2010 24 Hours of Le Mans -->
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• Lola T70
  ...r to a few factory-built prototypes, the [[Ford]]s won again twice at [[Le Mans]], while Lola took the [[1969 24 Hours of Daytona|1969]] [[24 Hours of Dayt An [[Aston Martin]] engined coupe bodied T70 was entered by Lola at Le Mans in 1967, but even with drivers such as [[John Surtees]], the car failed to
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• Ferrari 333 SP
  |Category = [[Le Mans Prototype]] ...fourth, respectively. The car also made its debut at the [[24 Hours of Le Mans]], but was never competitive in the French race, its best result a 6th spot
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• Audi R10 LMP
  ...den race at the 2006 [[12 Hours of Sebring]] and the [[2006 24 Hours of Le Mans]]. It was the first [[diesel]] to win either of those events. The Audi R10 ...[Automobile Club de l'Ouest|ACO]], who sets the rules for racing in the Le Mans 24 Hours, has reduced the [[restrictor plate|restrictor]] size on the engin
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• Audi R8 LMP
  ...Le Mans]] in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, and 2005. A streak of six straight Le Mans victories was broken-up only by the [[Bentley Speed 8]] in 2003, when the R ...e R8 has seen action in a few races leading up to [[24 Hours of Le Mans|Le Mans]].
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• World Sportscar Championship
  *[[24 Hours of Le Mans]] 1953- ...aguar Cars|Jaguar]] works team, who did not enter any events other than Le Mans, despite the potential of the [[Jaguar C-Type|C-]] and [[Jaguar D-Type|D-Ty
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• Tom Walkinshaw Racing
  ...A GT Championship|GTP Championship]]. Jaguar cars won the [[24 Hours of Le Mans]] and the [[24 Hours of Daytona]] in 1988 and 1990. The company also began ...turning them into open top prototypes. The [[Porsche]]-powered cars won Le Mans in 1996 and 1997.
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• 24 Hours of Le Mans
  ...ng|endurance race]], held annually at ''[[Circuit de la Sarthe]]'' near Le Mans, France, in the French [[Sarthe]] ''département''. It is organised by the ...e year but for an error in the team orders of the [[Ford GT40]] team at Le Mans, in 1966, which took the win from him, although he finished first.
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• Panhard
  Daimler's Stahlradwagen prototypes of 1889 inspired Levassor to manufacture cars. He obtained a licence to pr ...]]s dominated the "Index of Performance" class at [[24 Hours of Le Mans|Le Mans]] and other small-engine racing classes.
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