Here's an interesting piece of news for Nissan Month. The rumorists at Japan's Best Car Magazine are now speculating that Nissan may release an ultra limited production Le Mans edition of the R35 GT-R. With roots going back to the old school LM R33's, the new car will supposedly push out out somewhere around 600hp and include a number of
I don't have quite the amount of historic Le Mans photos that John Brooks has, but at least I can share this photo of the Toyota GT-one living the quiet life as a display inside the History Garage at Mega Web in Tokyo. This car was campaigned ten years ago in the 1998 Le Mans 24hr race with Keiichi Tsuchiya as one of its drivers. -Mike Garrett
A pair of mid '90s era Honda NSX race cars. The car on the right is from the 1995 24H of Le Mans and the car on the left is a JGTC (Now Super GT) machine from roughly the same time period. I took this photo a couple years ago at the Honda Collection Hall. I was hoping to see the Le Mans car again when I was at the Collection Hall a few weeks ago
As we build up towards the big Le Mans weekend, I will be sharing some the few Le Mans race car photos that I have. This famous 641hp Nissan R390 was one of three cars campaigned in the 1997 Le Mans race. For '97 the cars were done in the striking black and red livery seen above, though I prefer the way the R390's looked in white and blue livery