Collection(s) : Sport auto
Paru le 07/11/2012 | Relié sous jaquette 263 pages
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The Le Mans 24 Hours is the most famous endurance race in the world, and this year it celebrated its 80th anniversary. The event, which has always been a technical laboratory aimed at cars for the everyday motorist, saw the maiden victory by a hybrid-engined vehicle. This is a first in its history and is in keeping with the development of new technologies with which the Automobile Club de l'Ouest wishes to associate itself. This Yearbook tells the story of the race in words and pictures starting with the preparations, then the behind-the-scenes action and the unfolding of the 2012 event in which Toyota took the fight to Audi, the current benchmark in endurance racing. While the German make won, all eyes are now turned to next year's race. In Grand Touring, Ferrari beat Aston Martin, Corvette and Porsche after a closely-fought battle. Joys for some, tears for others, a game of light and shadow, immaculate cars contrasted with damaged ones - Le Mans is pitiless ! The pages of this book recreate all these feelings and all the values, which make the Le Mans 24 Hours an event totally unlike any other.
Jean-Marc Teissedre
It was through his love of model cars that math's teacher. Jean-Marc Teissedre, discovered his true vocation. This coincided with the launch of Auto Hebdo in 1976 to which he has remained faithful ever since becoming one of the best (if not the best) endurance racing journalists.
He has also contributed to all the major books dedicated to his specialty with his usual talent and enthusiasm, including this Yearbook on wich he has worked since 1978 with Christian Moity and more recently with Alain Bienvenu. In addition to his professionalism, he adds the meticulousness ot the model maker he has always been as he created the magazine Auto Modélisme, of which he recently stepped down from the post of chief editor
Christian Moity
Christian Moity has rubbed shoulders with the likes of Mike Hawthorn, Phil Hill and Olivier Gendebien as well as the more recent generation of Peugeot and Audi drivers. He has also attended 55 Le Mans 24 Hours without a break so he knows all those who are part of the Le Mans story. He was the man behind this Yearbook, spent thirty years as chief editor of the motor sports section of L'Automobile magazine followed by another six in the same post at Auto Passion, so he has covered branches of the sport as different s endurance, rallies and F1 Grand Prix. Today, he is free-lance journalist and this has left him enough time to tackle in-depth works ranging from the far-off 'Villes à Villes' to the modern era in his attempts to retrace a century of motor sport.
Alain bienvenu
In 1976, when he was a history student he answered a classified ad in the magazine Sport Auto which was looking for a collaborator. It was the start of his career in the world of the motor car. He then worked for the DPPI photo agency followed by publishing with L'Année Automobile, the first issues of Auto Passion, Automobile magazine and finally Auto Plus. In addition to his job in the editorial departments of these magazines, he discovered the other aspects of the motor car (shows, tests, new models etc) and began to specialize in the history of makes and the people behind them. But he did not neglect racing with books written in collaboration with his two accomplices mentioned above : 50 Ans d'endurance for E-T-A-I and the Le Mans 24 Hours.
