It's that time of year again. The cars that are going to star in the coming season start to emerge from the winter gloom and in 2009 that gloom has gone on for far too long. So it was a relief to get on the plane bound for Marseille en route to Le Castellet for the Le Mans Series Test days. Star of the show was the first public appearance of the

Hot off the press! On the 50th Anniversary of its outright win at Le Mans, Aston Martin will aim to repeat this win at La Sarthe in June. Following their semi-works support of the 'Charouz Racing' Lola Aston Martin in 2008, the British team have released an artist impression of the new Lola based racecar in Gulf Oil livery with new bodywork

Another major crash during the first practice session for the 24hr Le Mans race. This time it was Hideko Noda in his LMP2 Lola Mazda that flipped several times. Luckily for him he came out of the crash unscathed, while the car on the other hand was destroyed. I guess he won't be racing this weekend. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxm9PjVmgW4

The Le Mans 24 hours takes place this weekend in central France. In the first of three posts, we will go through the different cars of Le Mans, with the aid of the excellent photography of John Brooks. There are two styles of car at Le Mans, each with two classes. At the front of the grid are Le Mans Prototypes (LMP), followed by GT's which are