Saturday afternoon, 4 pm. The sun is shining over the Circuit Paul Ricard. The drivers sprint to their cars; the engines roar to life. A Le Mans-style start, just like in the old days. Except that it’s November 2026.
Welcome to the 2 Tours d’Horloge, the world’s only 24-hour race exclusively for historic racing cars. Here, Chevron prototypes take on Porsche 964s, classic BMW touring cars and French racing history. And instead of museum-like restraint, there’s genuine motorsport. With all the trimmings.
Once again this year, the night went on and on. Technical faults, frantic repairs, changing weather conditions. Not to mention the traditional onion soup at midnight in the pit lane. French motorsport simply has a charm all of its own.
In the end, François Rivaz, Frank Stippler and Alexander Furiani took overall victory in the Chevron B19. After 505 laps and just under 2,940 kilometres.
And whilst elsewhere classic cars are carefully tucked away under tarpaulins, here they are driven for 24 hours straight. After all, that’s exactly what they were built for.
