By the mid-1960s, Matra also started getting involved in various motorsport competitions, with Jean-Luc Lagardère promising to win a Formula 1 title and the iconic 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance ...

une décision radicale pour que l'équipe Matra-Simca impose à nouveau une voiture française aux 24 Heures du Mans, vingt-deux ans après la Talbot de Louis Rosier et son fils, en 1950. Le ...

l’association en entre Idec Sport et Matra se concrétise avec la révélation, ce mardi 19 mars, de la livrée du proto LMP2 qui disputera l’European Le Mans Series et les 24 Heures du Mans ...

Britain's Graham Hill won Monaco five times between 1963 and 1969, drank the milk at the Brickyard in 1966, and in 1972 drove to victory at Le Mans with Frenchman Henri Pescarolo in a Matra MS670 ...

It also weighed only 1,653 lbs (750 kg) – much lighter than today's Le Mans hypercar's minimum weight of 2,270 lbs (1,030 kg). Matra and Simca are two now-defunct French automakers, but once ...

The Le Mans tradition grew in popularity until 1936 ... This leveled the playing field for other marques, including Matra-Simca and Renault-Alpine, to rise, although Porsche would dominate ...

Ferrari will be quick to tell you that the 2023 24 Hours of Le Mans is their first attempt to ... and the 312PBs beaten by Matra-Simca. The last eight years of the brand's golden age were a ...