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Lining up for the 85th Le Mans race

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We've had the Monaco Grand Prix and the Indianapolis 500, and so it can only be a couple of weeks now until the last remaining part of the Triple Crown of Motorsport - the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Graham Hill is the only driver to have successfully won all three races in his career.

The 85th running of the event will be held on 17–18 June 2017 at the Circuit de la Sarthe. Among the drivers competing for victory are Anthony Davidson, Sebastien Buemi, Nelson Piquet Jr. and Vitaly Petrov. Also set to take part are Rubens Barrichello, Sergey Sirotkin, Karun Chandhok and Bruno Senna.

But at Le Mans, it's the cars that are the stars. And here they all are, lined up on the start/finish straight ahead of the official test day. It's an astounding and really quite beautiful site unlike any other in motor racing.

 
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Andrew Lewin

Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.

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