ACO Le Mans Annual 2017

ACO Le Mans Annual 2017 by Book

Weight 2.2kg By Jean-Marc Teissedre & Thibaut Villemant
The Le Mans annual is one of our perennial library essentials and the format is a pretty familiar one by now. The scene-setting features this year give brief summaries of the related championships such as the WEC, European and Asian Le Mans Series in which the main protagonists spend the rest of the year competing. We are then introduced to the teams and taken through the test weekend and qualifying sessions before concentrating on the race itself. And what a race 2017 saw! With the LMP1 cars plagued with un-reliability, a shock LMP2 victory looked to be on the cards, only for Porsche to snatch the lead back with just over an hour remaining having fought back from 55th position. In LMP2 the second placed Vaillant entry was disqualified after the race, giving Jackie Chan’s team a class 1-2 and overall double podium. The GTE Pro category was decided on the last lap which was like something from a sprint race and Ferrari dominated GTE Am. The race reports keep us informed of the ebb and flow of the action and there are a wealth of superb images capturing the action and atmosphere. Detailed results include hour-by-hour positions, overall class positions and full race records for the top three (top two in LMP1) finishers in each category.