EPISODE · Jun 18, 2026 · 18 MIN
16th June 2007: The Race That Rewrote The Rules Part 6
from Chequered Past · host Martin Elliot
16th June is a date that has delivered some of motorsport's most extraordinary stories. In 1984, Porsche made the remarkable decision to boycott their own sport's most prestigious race — and the privateers they left behind produced one of the great Le Mans comebacks. In 2007, a technological watershed: the first time two diesel prototypes went head to head at La Sarthe, in a battle between Audi and Peugeot that would define a decade of endurance racing. And in 2018, a Japanese manufacturer entered Le Mans for the twentieth time — carrying the weight of two consecutive heartbreaks — and faced the race that had always found a way to deny them.Cover Image: By Fabrice Pluchet, CC BY-SA 4.0, LinkSend us Fan MailMusic by #Mubert Music Rendering
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16th June is a date that has delivered some of motorsport's most extraordinary stories. In 1984, Porsche made the remarkable decision to boycott their own sport's most prestigious race — and the privateers they left behind produced one of the great Le Mans comebacks. In 2007, a technological watershed: the first time two diesel prototypes went head to head at La Sarthe, in a battle between Audi and Peugeot that would define a decade of endurance racing. And in 2018, a Japane...
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