4:53 Ultimate Cars: Beauty - Jaguar E-Type

With the iconic curves designed strictly for aerodynamics, the fact that it is the most beautiful car ever made is just a bonus!

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Sayer's aerodynamic design is a direct progression from the legendary 3-times Le Mans winner, the Jaguar D-type, which also had an amazing design but the E-type was better.

5:56 Road to Le Mans - Testing the New Engine

With a new engine, Creation effectively have a new car but it's now time to put it to the test.

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For the last 5 years, Le Mans has been dominated by one car, the Audi R8. This goliath of German design and engineering has won 4 of the last

2:50 Road to Le Mans - New Engine

If their car is to have a chance against the Audi R8, Creation need a new engine, but it's not quite that simple.

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For the last 5 years, Le Mans has been dominated by 1 car, the Audi R8. This goliath of German design and engineering has won 4 the last 5

John will be supplying engines to 9 cars at Le Mans this year. And they've got a great track record for reliability.

2:57 Road to Le Mans - Meet the Team

Meet the Creation team who are out to dethrone Audi's domination of the Le Mans Grand Prix

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and raced nonstop for 24 hours. It's the ultimate endurance challenge. It's Le Mans . A pace topping 320 km/hr, they race for over 5000 km. That's drag racing from Paris to Istanbul and back, nonstop. It's equivalent to running an entire Formula One season in a single race. Ian Bickerton has taken on the challenge of getting a car into shape that can be Audi at Le Mans , but less than 5 months to go until the race, he has brought his Creation Autosport team here for 2 days of

For the last 5 years Le Mans has been dominated by 1 car, the Audi R8. This Goliath of German design and engineering has won 4 of the last

4:40 The Secret Life of Formula One - The BRM Project

After WWII, English teams plundered the German formula for Grand Prix Racing - leading to the BRM project.

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stunned by the worst accident in the history of motor racing. At Le Mans 24 Hours sports car race, a Mercedes Benz collided with a smaller car as it slowed into the pit lane. The Mercedes

3:55 Ultimate Cars - Racers - Jaguar D-Type

Built specifically to win, the LeMans the D-Type did just that, again and again. The iconic fin helped to give it a look of its own.

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was that there were more column inches, more pure publicity in winning Le Mans than in winning every single other sports car race on the calendar. And so instead of designing a car that had to go quite well in all these racers, he designed a car that was just designed to get well at Le Mans .

Now, the secret of winning Le Mans is to utilize the long straight from the course. If you can do that, you got the race in the bag.

about hurtling down the long straights, which is great for when in Le Mans , but not anywhere else.

5:03 Ultimate Cars - Racers - Porsche 917

The most powerful road racing car ever built, the 917's secret was two 911 engines strapped together!

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rear and ei-- voila! A racing legend was born. Porsche returned to Le Mans in 1970 and did nothing less than annihilate the field, but their glory year was the legendary Le Mans of '71. This year, Ferrari had built a series of cars as a direct response to the 917's and once again, Porsche

other than the Porsche 917? It is the fastest car to win Le Mans . And its final incarnation, its 1100 brake-horsepower engine made it the most powerful road-racing car ever made. And it is quite possibly

after the '71 win, the racing board banned the 5-liter class at Le Mans .

3:39 Ultimate Cars - Racers - Ford GT40

After a business deal with Ferrari went sour, Henry Ford designed to build a car that could 'Kick Ferrari's ass'

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bucket loads of money into the project, when the GT40's arrived at Le Mans in 1964, it was a disaster. No one pass the finishing line and Ferrari came in first, second, and third. Not to be deprived of his promised butt kicking, Ford returned to Le Mans in '65 when every single GT40 retired from the race within 3 hours and Ferrari won, again. It was at this point

with it. With Shelby's adjustments now in place, the GT40 return to Le Mans in 1966, where as Henry Ford promised 3 years earlier, they kicked Ferrari's butt ferociously. First, second, and third, and they won

4:17 Building a Bentley

Take a look at the exhaustive design and manufacture process of a Bentley.

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8 is the car that does it, winning the 24 hours of Le Mans in 2003. The Speed 8 is a racing car test bed for new technologies, now moving from the track into the very

3:54 Bentley - The Lure of Speed

The lure of speed led Walter Owen Bentley to design the '3 Litre', and forge one of the greatest brands in motorsports.

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on one of the ultimate challenges in motorsports, the 24 hours of Le Mans . The car is the new Bentley Speed 8.

The Bentley name brings more than heritage back to the Le Mans . The Speed 8 brings the very latest in racing know how. In 2003, a Bentley once again wins the ultimate 24-hour road