{"id":503529,"date":"2023-06-07T08:11:58","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T15:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/?p=503529"},"modified":"2024-12-02T20:49:18","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T20:49:18","slug":"the-le-mans-24-hours-centenary-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/the-le-mans-24-hours-centenary-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"The Le Mans 24 Hours Centenary Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All images by: Virtual Motorpix\/Glen Smale<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some Le Mans 24 Hour Background<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do you remember when your favourite band or singer released their latest, long-awaited album? Perhaps it was Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, JJ Cale, or some obscure group that you really liked. You would go down to the record shop (remember those) and search eagerly for that new album, and finding it, you would pay the man behind the till so you could rush home to put your new album on the turntable as quickly as possible. While this writer was an enthusiastic fan of the above artists, and others like them, the same excited feeling would run through my body when, as a young boy, I would read the latest news about the greatest endurance race of all time, the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">24 heures du mans<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n        .memberful-global-teaser-content p:last-child{\n            -webkit-mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n            mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n        }\n    <\/style>\n<div class='memberful-global-marketing-content'>\n<div class=\"a07online-global-marketing-content-wrapper\">\n<h2 class=\"a07online-global-marketing-title\">No Subscription? You&#8217;re missing out<\/h2>\n<p class=\"a07online-global-marketing-content\">Any Text Here<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a07online-global-marketing-prompt\" href=\"https:\/\/supercars.memberful.com\/checkout?plan=86696\">Get Started<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"a07online-global-marketing-signin\">\n<h4 class=\"a07online-global-marketing-signin\">Already a Member? <a href=\"https:\/\/supercars.memberful.com\/account\">Sign in to your account here<\/a>.<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All images by: Virtual Motorpix\/Glen Smale Some Le Mans 24 Hour Background Do you remember when your favourite band or singer released their latest, long-awaited album? Perhaps it was Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, JJ Cale, or some obscure group that you really liked. You would go down to the record shop (remember those) and search eagerly for that new album, and finding it, you would pay the man behind the till so you could rush home to put your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":828365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263,3766,11272,261,11441,18207],"tags":[17152,432,545,17140,894,1148,17143],"class_list":["post-503529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car-culture","category-history","category-members-only","category-motorsport-racing","category-museum","category-special-feature","tag-car-culture","tag-events","tag-history","tag-members-only","tag-museum","tag-24-hours-of-le-mans","tag-special-feature"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Le Mans 24 Hours Centenary Exhibition<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The 24 Hours of Le Mans this year is hosting a month long celebration of 100 years of the greatest race on the planet, with some of the most famous cars on display.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/the-le-mans-24-hours-centenary-exhibition\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Le Mans 24 Hours Centenary Exhibition\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The 24 Hours of Le Mans this year is hosting a month long celebration of 100 years of the greatest race on the planet, with some of the most famous cars on display.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/the-le-mans-24-hours-centenary-exhibition\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Supercars.net\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Supercars.net\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-06-07T15:11:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-12-02T20:49:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/16_LeMans-Museum-2023-095047-gs-scaled.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1920\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Glen Smale\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@supercars_net\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@supercars_net\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Glen Smale\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"15 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/the-le-mans-24-hours-centenary-exhibition\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/the-le-mans-24-hours-centenary-exhibition\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Glen Smale\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/c91e5ce2dd5f2c084f9aee47f8ac50fd\"},\"headline\":\"The Le Mans 24 Hours Centenary Exhibition\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-06-07T15:11:58+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-12-02T20:49:18+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/the-le-mans-24-hours-centenary-exhibition\/\"},\"wordCount\":2305,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/the-le-mans-24-hours-centenary-exhibition\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/16_LeMans-Museum-2023-095047-gs-scaled.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Car Culture\",\"Event (Car Events &amp; 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