During Monterey week, endurance cars of former glory gathered for three days at the Laguna Seca circuit for a special event comparable to the Mans Classic. Official BMW driver Bill Auberlen took the opportunity to slip behind the wheel of a McLaren F1 GTR that competed at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1996.

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Iron Lynx has taken the wraps off the three Mercedes-AMG LMGT3s to compete in the 94th 24 Hours of Le Mans on 10-14 June 2026. Three cars, three colour schemes, three personalities: one concept.

At the 24 Hours of Le Mans, silver spells speed and slick machinery. For this year&rsquo;s edition of the classic French race, Iron Lynx are reviving the Silver Arrows concept on their three Mercedes-AMGs fielded in the LMGT3 class. A bridge between heritage and modernity, the Italian team&rsquo;s liveries present three versions of the same story. Each Mercedes-AMG LMGT3 has a distinctive identity, while remaining true to the Silver Arrows tradition.

<h2>Looking to hit the target at the 24 Hours of Le Mans</h2>

The #61 Mercedes-AMG LMGT3 of Martin Berry, Rui Andrade and Mercedes-AMG factory driver Maxime Martin has a bold black rear. The #79, in the hands of Johannes Zelger, Matteo Cressoni and Lin Hodenius, brings vibrancy with splashes of yellow. Finally, the #62, which joins the first two full season WEC competitors for Le Mans, bears the colours of Qatar, a milestone in the partnership between Iron Lynx and the Qatar Motor and Motorcycle Federation established for the European Le Mans Series. Abdulla Al-Khelaifi, Julian Hanses and Giuliano Alesi will take the wheel of the third car.

&quot;It&rsquo;s a great pleasure for us to bring the Silver Arrows back to the 24 Hours of Le Mans for the second consecutive year&rdquo;, says Andrea Piccini, Team Principal &amp; CEO of Iron Lynx. &ldquo;I particularly enjoyed that we are doing it by featuring three distinct and unique personalities. We are also delighted to partner with Team Qatar as they take part for the first time in this legendary race. The first time at Le Mans is always unique and I really hope it will be an unforgettable experience.&quot;

Stefan Wendl &ndash; Head of Customer Racing, Mercedes-AMG Motorsport: &quot;I am very pleased to see three Mercedes-AMG LMGT3 cars once again on the grid for this year&rsquo;s 24 Hours of Le Mans. Our thanks go to Team Qatar and our Customer Racing Team Iron Lynx for making this additional entry possible. Continuing the story of the Silver Arrows in 2026 through the liveries of all three cars, following our debut last year, underlines the special significance this race holds within our motorsport heritage. Building on the experience gained last year, we now aim to confirm our sporting progress with a strong result at the endurance classic in Le Mans.&quot;

That&rsquo;s the essence of the 24 Hours of Le Mans: keeping a tradition relevant, heading for a destiny, yet living the present moment. The past, present and future on track together.

Iron Lynx continues the Silver Arrows legacy at the 2026 24 Hours of Le Mans

Following the reveal of its prestigious patron, Lewis Hamilton, the M24 - Motorsport Museum is getting ready to open its doors.

Every day, the greatest gems of motorsport are taking their place as the exhibition space comes to life. On the agenda: discover authentic and legendary vehicles from Formula 1, Endurance racing, Can-Am, and Rallying.

The ticket office is open&mdash;it&rsquo;s time to book your tickets!

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<h2 style="text-align: left;">For the most curious</h2>

Guided tours available for Summer 2026.

Accompanied by an expert tour guide, dive into the heart of the history of the 24 Hours of Le Mans and motorsport.&nbsp; Let yourself be guided through a new, immersive experience that will make you feel the thrill and emotion of the famous Le Mans race.

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<h2 style="text-align: left;">Visit new official store</h2>

Continue the experience and discover the new store starting May 28, located in the heart of the M24.

An exclusive 300 m&sup2; space designed to showcase the official collections and immerse you in the passion of the 24 Hours of Le Mans. An elegant, contemporary, and immersive world created for visitors.

Until the grand opening, find all our collections on <a href="https://boutique.lemans.org/en/?ob_hash=61e1e51ee26b936e3aad214525231873f3cb9ccdf7fdce47c611c971427e3e46&amp;utm_source=EMAILING&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=BOUTIQUE_M24&amp;utm_campaign=J-7_OUVERTURE_M24_EN_001ZNR" target="_blank">the online store</a>.

<h2 style="text-align: left;">New - Private event spaces</h2>

With 270 m&sup2; of private facilities, the M24 offers versatile rooms tailored to all your event formats: the Grand Prix 1 &amp; 2 suites (140 m&sup2; of modular space, accommodating up to 110 people), the Indianapolis room (50 m&sup2;, up to 18 people), and the Le Mans Lounge (80 m&sup2; for cocktails or sit-down lunches).

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Learn more about the <a href="https://www.m24-musee.com/en/" target="_blank">M24 - Motorsport Museum</a>.

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Just a few weeks ahead of the 94th 24 Hours of Le Mans on 13-14 June, Inter Europol Competition has unveiled the special livery inspired by landscapes of rapeseed fields given to its ORECA 07-Gibson LMP2.

There are liveries that cover a car, and then there are liveries that give it a soul. For the upcoming 2026&nbsp;24 Hours of Le&nbsp;Mans, Inter Europol Competition has favoured the latter. The #43 ORECA&nbsp;07-Gibson shared by&nbsp;Kuba Śmiechowski, Tom Dillmann and&nbsp;Nick Yelloly will sport&nbsp;a special creation&nbsp;by Polish designers Aleksandra and Gustaw Lange, from the Lange &amp; Lange design studio.&nbsp;The Art Car fielded by&nbsp;the LMP2 winner of&nbsp;last year&#39;s&nbsp;24 Hours of Le Mans is comprehensive in concept, including&nbsp;the prototype itself as well as the visual identity of the project as a whole.

<h2>a livery inspired by rolling rapeseed fields</h2>

Inter Europol Competition&rsquo;s iconic yellow and green are on full display. These colours are extracted from&nbsp;the rapeseed fields of Poland,&nbsp;those vibrant expanses that flow&nbsp;with&nbsp;the wind. Yet at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, nothing stands still, so&nbsp;the designers have transformed this peaceful image into a living entity&nbsp;coursing with energy and speed.

The car&nbsp;becomes&nbsp;a moving canvas and an evocation of the Polish Impressionist movement &mdash;&nbsp;steeped in references to Leon Wycz&oacute;łkowski, Edward Dwurnik&nbsp;and Waldemar Świerzy &mdash;&nbsp;and of&nbsp;the Polish School of Posters.

Aleksandra and&nbsp;Gustaw Lange: Our goal was to create something that works on an immediate visual level, but also carries deeper layers of meaning. This is not just aesthetics. It is a language that connects history, emotion&nbsp;and function.

<h2>Le Mans, THE PErfect stage to tell a story</h2>

At the 24 Hours of Le Mans, every detail eventually tells a story, from&nbsp;brake discs glowing red in the night to&nbsp;bodywork caked with insects. This Art Car embodies the&nbsp;tradition in which the machine represents&nbsp;far more than mere performance. Inter Europol Competition has not lost sight of what truly matters, fully aware of&nbsp;what it takes to survive the most unforgiving race in the world.

Sport Director Sascha Fassbender:&nbsp;Winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans twice and finishing second once has shown us what it takes to perform at the very highest level of endurance racing. But motorsport today is more than just competition, it is a powerful communication platform and an opportunity to think beyond the obvious.&nbsp;With this Art Car project, we wanted to go further than performance alone. It is about expressing who we are as a team, telling a story, and connecting with people in a way that goes beyond the track. Motorsport gives you a unique stage, and we believe it should also be a space for creativity, for bold ideas, and for thinking truly out of the box 
.&nbsp;

<h2>SEEKING a SECOND consecutive WIN</h2>

The 24 Hours of Le Mans has always served as a living automobile museum. Some cars win the race, others earn a place in the collective memory. Inter Europol Competition is going after both this year.

When the #43 sets off on Saturday, 13 June at&nbsp;16:00, Kuba Śmiechowski, Tom Dillmann, and Nick Yelloly will be&nbsp;looking to claim&nbsp;the top step on the LMP2&nbsp;podium for a second year in a row. Their experience, precision&nbsp;and team spirit are sure to&nbsp;be decisive factors in&nbsp;the team&#39;s result on the track, but it is the Art Car that will resonate&nbsp;far beyond the world of motorsport.

It is also worth noting the Polish outfit has&nbsp;entered&nbsp;a second chassis bearing the #343 to be driven by&nbsp;Bijoy Garg, Reshad de Gerus&nbsp;and Nico M&uuml;ller.

Kuba Śmiechowski: Le Mans is a place where every detail and every decision count. This project shows that motorsport is not only about performance, but also about emotion and storytelling in a unique way. We are proud to be part of something so special and we can&rsquo;t wait to get started.

And perhaps that is, deep down, what has made the Le Mans&nbsp;classic unparalleled for more than&nbsp;a century. Here, even the paint can tell a story of endurance.

Inter Europol Competition transforms ORECA 07 into rolling work of art

Some cars disappear into the darkness when night falls. Not the #3 DKR Engineering Oreca 07-Gibson. On the contrary, it promises to emerge from the depths of the forest like a nocturnal beast. Designer Victor Vullo is behind the Luxembourgeois team’s spectacular 24 Hours of Le Mans livery.

For its fifth 24 Hours of Le Mans on 10-14 June,&nbsp;LMP2 Pro/Am&nbsp;entrant&nbsp;DKR Engineering has chosen a visual identity for onlookers to interact with rather than to contemplate. Designer <a href="https://victorvullo.wixsite.com/studio" target="_blank">Victor Vullo</a> isn&rsquo;t out to make a political statement. He seeks to portray the emotion sparked by a race car: an image that kindles the imagination and keeps the flame aglow for decades.

<h2>A beacon in the darkness</h2>

By day, the #3 Oreca 07-Gibson sports the traditional DKR Engineering colours: pitch black and glowing orange. But when the sun sets on Le Mans, the livery will come alive. The designer sought to take the graphics produced for the European Le Mans Series a step further, like a deep-sea diver exploring the bed of the ocean.

&ldquo;I wanted to rework the legacy of the famous 2022 Nemo livery. The Le Mans design is an extension of the ELMS one, but it goes further into the depths. I drew on bioluminescence to create a neon effect that will come into its own at night,&rdquo; he explains.

The concept is inspired by marine organisms that produce their own light in the absolute darkness of the sea bed. An apt idea for Le Mans, the race where everything changes when midnight strikes. When the circuit is cloaked in black, the headlamps trace its outlines. Some cars stand out. Others disappear.

<h2>A livery that speaks to young hearts</h2>

Victor Vullo evokes his design with the enthusiasm of a child. This was no exercise in aesthetics; the creation stems from vivid memories of the Porsche 962 and Jaguar XJR-9.

&ldquo;As a child I was fascinated by the Group C liveries. I quite simply set out to please the 24 Hours of Le Mans crowd with a completely different design and I hope children will be as captivated as I used to be.&quot;

Everyone remembers a car, an image, a feeling of being trackside at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. This Oreca 07-Gibson sets out to be that memory. To establish that connection. Not a staid painting. No, a car that people can relate to, the one they&rsquo;ll want to photograph, the one they&rsquo;ll look out for on the Pit Straight.

Asked whether he considers his creation to be an Art Car, Victor Vullo is humble. &ldquo;I don&#39;t consider myself an artist. More an industrial designer. To me, this is design work. What really counts is that fans enjoy looking at the car.&rdquo;

<h2>Looking for the limelight</h2>

That said, DKR Engineering is not coming to Le Mans just for appearances. Last time, in 2024, the team finished in 21st place overall and seventh in LMP2. The 2026 European Le Mans Series has been frustrating so far: 17th at the 4 Hours of Barcelona and 18th at Le Castellet &ndash; results that do not reflect the team&rsquo;s potential.&nbsp;Especially since she has achieved two podium finishes in LMP2 Pro/Am in her last two participations.

Team manager Kendy Janclaes is counting on a well-balanced crew: Canadian John Farano, Mexican Sebasti&aacute;n &Aacute;lvarez, who took part with IDEC Sport last year, and Dutchman Renger Van der Zande, for whom this will be the ninth Le Mans start.

To Victor Vullo, the collective effort is beautiful to see. &ldquo;Now I&rsquo;ve experienced the race from the inside with DKR Engineering, I know that everyone is out to do their best to achieve a good result. Team spirit still exists and that restores my faith in humanity.&rdquo;

At Le Mans, cars always have more to say for themselves than a ranking or a lap time. Some seek to dazzle, while others look to make a lasting impression. The #3 Oreca 07-Gibson would no doubt like to do both.

A neon livery for DKR Engineering at the 2026 24 Hours of Le Mans

24 Heures du Mans 1996

Why the McLaren F1 GTR? Because the car is equipped with a&nbsp;BMW engine and the German manufacturer was celebrating its&nbsp;100th anniversary at the Laguna Seca circuit! Enjoy a lap of the Californian track and listen to the roar of the&nbsp;V12 engine in the McLaren entered officially by&nbsp;BMW, with the support of Team Bigazzi, at Le Mans back in 1996 (eighth overall)!

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