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When it comes to memorable years at Le Mans, there are few that are more so than the 1999 edition of the 24 hour race.There was no shortage of quality in the field that year with entrants from a variety of manufacturers including Audi, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, Panoz and Toyota but it would be Mercedes-Benz who would steal the limelight and not for the reason they’d hoped for.During the race, th …

Conceived in the late 1970s as a return to the ‘good old days’ when both amateur and factory teams could run the same production-based cars in championship events, the Group B classification revolutionised the world of rally, arguably increasing it’s popularity to rival that of Formula One during its short lived stint in the 1980s.Incredibly the cars produced during this golden era of rallying are …