100 ans de 24 Heures – Résultats complets

Product description

The results of all 76 editions of the 24-hour race in the Ardennes from 1924 to 2024 are printed on 192 pages, but so are the lists of the retired, unclassified, declassified, non-starters and non-qualifiers, as well as the results of the Coupe du Roi.

The statistics are supplemented by around a hundred amusing, unusual and yet true anecdotes – both together are illustrated with more than 550 photos.

Did you know, for example, that the Peugeot factory wanted to ban the starting number plate 204 on a BMW 1800 Ti in 1965? Or that the Belgian team that entered Zastavas in 1976 put the names of fictitious Yugoslavian drivers on the entry forms to pretend official participation? Who would dare to present a car without an engine at scrutineering these days, as the team that entered a Marcos Mantara in 2001 successfully did? Would it not have been thought not so long ago that champions of… video games like Gran Turismo would one day find themselves in a real race, behind the wheel of a state-of-the-art GT3, fighting for a place on the podium?