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At 24 Hours of Le Mans, automotive expertise and determination combine to provide a showcase of endurance, technological achievement, as well as plain old-fashioned car racing thrills. 2025 marks Le Mans' 93rd edition as all the action revs up on Saturday, June 14 continuing to Sunday, June 15, 2025 and televised live on MotorTrend TV before an expected audience of millions. Whoever claims victory this year joins a distinguished list of winning teams including Audi, Porsche, Jaguar, Ford and Ferrari. New this year? The Cadillac V-Series.R and Porsche 963 are both set to make their 24 Hours of Le Mans debuts.
On Saturday, the preliminaries for the race start at 3PM local time which means 7AM PT / 10AM ET in the US and Canada, where audiences can look forward to start-to-finish coverage on the MotorTrend TV channel and streamed live on MotorTrend +. Velocity Canada also usually provides coverage beginning at 10:00am ET on Saturday. In the UK, watch for live coverage beginning at 2PM on Eurosport. Meanwhile, Motors TV also usually has it covered throughout Europe and broadcast on 100 TV networks worldwide, beaming it into 16 million homes in four languages.
• Due to the grueling nature of the race, it’s compulsory for each car to have three drivers, none of which must do more than 14 hours’ driving in total. • At 24 Hours of Le Mans, Porsche is out in front with 17 wins followed by Audi with 13 wins. • Mazda is the only Japanese manufacturer to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans, in 1991. • In 2010, the Audi R15 team of Timo Bernhard, Romain Dumas and Mike Rockenfeller set the record for the greatest distance achieved by a winning car - 3,362 miles. • American driver Dan Gurney first began the tradition of spraying champagne in celebration at the podium after winning with Ford in 1967.
On the Web, find out more about the classic race in pictures, video clips,
news & updates, profiles on car manufacturers & racers, interesting facts, trivia, and lots of history that continues
to fuel the prestige and glamour behind the legendary 24 Hours of Le Mans ... 2025 Le Mans 24 Hours - The official site including the latest news & updates, complete entry list, related history including a searchable database of results and times dating back to 1923 plus additional photos, video and multimedia presentations available with paid membership. 24 Hours of Le Mans - Wikipedia entry with a detailed history including pop culture references, facts & information on the famous 1955 Le Mans disaster, an overview of the circuit, a complete list of winners, pictures, related links. 24 Hours in Le Mans - Fan site with exceptional images as a result of a marathon photo shoot in 2005. Le Mans - The cult classic starring Steve McQueen that used actual footage of 24 Hours of Le Mans, including site fan forum, lots of interesting behind-the-scenes factoids, photo gallery & memorable movie quotes from the Internet Movie Database.
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Can they go the distance for 24 hours? Non-stop??
