Motor Racing Legends support Le Mans
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7th November, 2010
Motor Racing Legends has announced the return of the Le Mans Legend
historic support race to next year’s Le Mans 24 Hours week-end. For 2011, the race will be for cars that were eligible
for Le Mans from 1949 to 1965 – which covers vehicles from Aston Martin DB2, Austin-Healeys, C-type and D-type
Jaguars, through to the familiar archetypes of the 1960s: front- and mid-engined Ferraris, Morgans and MGBs, plus a
vast array of other icons from this evocative era (to keep the racing close and competitive, the grid will exclude the
highly successful Ford GT40s).
Says Duncan Wiltshire of Motor Racing Legends, “The 1950s and early ’60s is, for many people, perhaps the most
emotionally charged period of motor racing history – a genuine golden era, when the cars were not only beautiful, but
also highly distinctive and instantly recognisable. For spectators (and there are some 230,000 at the Le Mans weekend),
this makes the racing even more enthralling, as you don’t need a wealth of historical knowledge to get excited by the
sight of a Ferrari 250LM or Jaguar D-type flat-out on a race track.”
The 45-minute race, for either one or two drivers, will take place on the full 8.5-mile Le Mans circuit on the
morning of Saturday 11th June 2011, a few hours before the start of the modern "24 Hours".
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