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Introduction
24 Hours of Le Mans (French: 24 Heures du Mans), a major event held in Paris, located 200 kilometers southwest of the town of Le Mans, the event has experienced 90 years of development, it has become the world’s largest car endurance race. Le Mans racing the average speed on the road is about two-thirds of 370 kilometers, the car in a straight line can be up to 404 kilometers per hour. It’s carmakers showcase the best environmental performance and reliability of the car.
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History
first Grand Prix
In 1906, the city of Le Mans was a world’s first Grand Prix: French automobile club Grand Prix. In general, the game is considered an important indicator of motor sport began to move toward development. In 1923 the French car industry veteran with racing correspondent Du Hang Hu law, as well as car manufacturers coqui trio founded the First 24 Hours of Le Mans, the year 2005 has been held for 73 sessions (1936, 1940 to 1948 did not held).
1955 Le Mans catastrophe
June 11, 1955, there was a major disaster Le Mans, French driver Pierre Levegh driving Mercedes 300SLR car rear-ended a after looking into the 100 Lance Macklin’s Austin-HealeyTaiwan, causing Levegh himself and 83 spectators were killed and 120 others injured in a serious accident. It is the history of the car in order to calculate the number of deaths the most serious accidents. The last race was won by Mike Hawthrown Jaguar D-Type. French media and his teammates Mike Hawthrown Bueb on the podium spraying champagne scoffed.
After the accident Mercedes-Benz and Jaguar announced its withdrawal from motorsport, France, Spain, Switzerland and Germany also announced a ban on motor racing was held in their countries. Jaguar and Mercedes-Benz in the 1980s only to return to motor racing, Switzerland still does not allow motorsport held.
90s
In 1991, driven by Johnny Herbert, Volker Weidler, and Bertrand Gachot Mazda 787 three drivers won the championship, it is history’s first wins get this championship-winning rotary engine car.
In 1999, Mark Webber driving a Mercedes-Benz CLR, in practice sessions and warm-up before the game, the Mulsanne straight on the road twice volley tumble, to carry out the first five hours in the game, teammate Peter Dumbreck’s car also occurred in the same accident, the audience around the world shocked. Mercedes-Benz finally decided to cut this racing.
2000s
In 2006, the Audi R10 TDi to win the Le Mans 24 hour race, is the history of the first diesel car to win this tournament. Three for the champion Frank Biela, Marco Werner and Emanuele Pirro.
In 2008, the Danish driver Tom. Christensen (Tom Kristensen) Following 1997,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004 and after 2005, the eighth of winning the Le Mans 24 hour race, became the most winning driver.
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Le Mans
Le Mans 24 hour race because of a long straightaway, such as the famous Mulsanne straightaway, so more emphasis instead as racing speed increases linearly F1 racing under pressure to increase the cornering speed, the car body together to obtain a complete covering a lower drag coefficient (coefficient of drag), in order to avoid the rear spoiler angle adjustment is too close increasing the pressure but perpendicular to hinder straight road speed increases drag, Le Mans car so as to increase the length of the rear spoiler or rear as possible after the shift, the angle of attack can be smaller with the shift length spoiler principle of leverage enlarge pressure without adding too much wind resistance. In 1988 Le Mans car race in a straight path to reach the highest speed of 404 kilometers per hour, but this did not take long race cars did not finish the race due to engine overheating; the 1989 Le Mans Mercedes-Benz in the race car Sauber C9 straight road out of 398 per hour kilometer speed and win the championship.
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Competition System
Every year in June held the second weekend in Le Mans, France Speedway. Competition by the French Automobile Club of the West (Automobile Club de l’Ouest, ACO [1]) is responsible for hosting.
In recent years, the competition is divided into four categories, namely LMPl (e.g. Audi R10, Peugeot 908 HDi like, positioned closer to the last group C Prototype car), LMP2 (e.g. CourageLC75), GT1 (e.g. Chevrolet Corvette C6R and Aston Martin DBR9), as well as most entry GT2 (such as the Ferrari F430 GT).
Le Mans 24 hour race itself has also led to a number of tournaments, namely the Le Mans Endurance Series (Le Mans Endurance Series [2]) and the American Le Mans Series (American Le Mans Series [3]). In 2006, Japan will launch a new Japanese Le Mans Series (All-Japan Le Mans Series).