Cadillac wants to be the first American company to win Le Mans since 1969. The brand’s plans in France do not end there.
If you know the Cadillac V-Series.R, the sound you associate with it is probably the outrageous roar of the car’s 5.5-liter V-8 bump starting after rolling out of a pit lane on electric power. GM sports-car boss Laura Wontrop Klauser thinks about a different sound, the one she has not heard yet. She thinks about the American national anthem, played when a factory Corvette won its class at Le Mans in 2023. It has not been played during celebrations for an overall win in half a century.
This is the biggest single prize an automaker can win. Outside of Ford-powered privateers in the 1975 and 1980 races, it has been won only by major auto manufacturers. Of those automakers, only Lorraine-Dietrich, Simca, and inaugural winner Chenard-Walcker have since gone out of business. In a world where energy-drink corporations are winning F1 world championships, Le Mans is still a race that is effectively only winnable by an elite program put together by a major manufacturer.
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