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TimesLIVE
16 hours ago
- Automotive
- TimesLIVE
Ferrari win Le Mans for third year in a row
The #51 factory Ferrari of 2023 winners Alessandro Pier Guidi, Antonio Giovinazzi and James Calado completed the podium with last year's winners Antonio Fuoco, Nicklas Nielsen and Miguel Molina fourth in the #50 Ferrari. Kubica's triumph came on the same weekend as the Canadian Grand Prix at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, scene of his only Formula One win with BMW Sauber in 2008 after a huge crash at the same track in 2007. It also capped an astonishing racing redemption story for the 40-year-old whose Formula One career ended after a near-fatal rally crash in Italy in 2011 that partially severed his right forearm.
Daily Mirror
16 hours ago
- Automotive
- Daily Mirror
F1 cult hero wins Le Mans 24 Hours to join Fernando Alonso in exclusive club
Robert Kubica has become a Le Mans winner more than a decade on from the career-changing crash that he was lucky to survive. The Polish former Formula 1 racer, alongside team-mates Yifei Ye and Phil Hanson, won the world-famous 24-hour race for the first time on Sunday. Kubica made his name racing in Formula 1 and won the 2008 Canadian Grand Prix near the beginning of what promised to be a fine career. He had impressed with BMW Sauber to the point he was set to land a coveted race seat with Ferrari. But that all changed in early 2011 with a crash while rallying which almost killed him. He survived, but needed a partial amputation to his right forearm as well as other very serious injuries. ---
