We love a retro gallery and DSC partner and photographic editor has done us proud with this one – digging deep into his archive for a selection from his very first 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2001
Andy Wallace – caught on camera
The current DSC Editor and Lola, FIA WEC and The Race ace Sam Smith chow down!
Home Team
Pair of (Panoz) Aliens
Corvette C5-R
Ascari pair
Ascari crews
Scrutineering in the Place des Jacobins car park!
Snappers galore
Larbre Viper
Frank Biela
GG meets Jan Lammer’s and family – this pair are now in their mid 20s!
Vanina Ickx
PK Sport’s Porsche – A year later driver David Warnock would play a key part in establishing DSC
#7 Heaven
Bentley Boys (and Girls)
Pretty little MG Lola
Stefan Johansson
Never give Dindo the remote control!
John Nielsen
Audi Line-Up
The Usual Suspects
Johnny Herbert, Ralf Kelleners and DIdier Theys
Christian Pescatori, Dindo Capello and Laurent Aiello
DIdier de Radigues
Yojiro Terada
Raring to go
The more you look, the weirder it seems
Reynard and Porsche
Chrysler LMP
Scott Maxwell in the Ascari
Dayglo – night glow
Anthony Kumpen
Monochrome dome
Steely glare from Martin Brundle
Jan Lammers
Kevin McGarrity and Warren Hughes
#17 Pescarolo Courage
Panoz’s new weapon – it would fire blanks!
Champion Audi would fail to finish – their day at Le Mans would come!
Gulf Audi
TK
Malcolm Cracknell and Anthony Reid
Virtual Le Mans – 2001 style
Kevin McGarritty, Julian Bailey and a close personal friend
That won’t buff out!
Back to the grind
22 year-old Sébastien Bourdais
Le Mans Legends start
C-Type
Christian Pescatori
Shady
Gridding up
and away they go
Race start
GT battlers
High Hopes
Den Bla Avis Dome
Crewe bus
Inter
Polesetting Aspen Knolls Callaway
Classic Le Mans night shot
Sand voort
It would be second in GT for the Freisinger Porsche – With Gunner Jeannette becoming the then youngest ever finisher and podium scorer.
The Saleen would give Oliver Gavin his first (of many) visits to the podium
#2 Audi
Green machine
A very different look
The Bentley was untested in the wet
Crowded house
1,2,3 cross the line
Joy unconfined
The crowd released
En route to the podium
Jakob Ebrey – He’d have been about 12 back then!
Appropriate garb for the first Bentley podium since 1930!
Bentley Boys rejoice
Win number 3 for TK
Two in a row for this trio – and it would become three the following year