Ferrari on top with triumphant return at centennial 24 Hours of Le Mans

Scuderia win despite last competing at Le Mans in 1973Ferrari complete 342 laps to hold off Toyota challenge

Driving into history with a stone-cold classic race to mark its 100th anniversary, the centennial 24 Hours of Le Mans delivered on every level, not least in an equally historic return to the top for Ferrari. Scriptwriters tasked with pencilling a storyline to honour the occasion would surely have not dared imagine a plot quite as gripping, or as unlikely, as the one that unfolded at the Circuit de la Sarthe.

For half a century the Scuderia have not competed in the top class at Le Mans but they came back in style, taking a mighty victory at the first time of asking and after an immense struggle in a vingt-quatre more than worthy of marking the occasion.

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