Luxury Racing Luxury Racing Luxury Racing is a motor racing team from France that formed in 2009. The team specialises in Endurance racing, more specifically the FIA World Endurance Championship and has solely used Ferraris since 2011. The team had its first venture in the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2011, where they raced two cars in the LMGTE Pro class. They qualified 36th and 41st, which is 8th and 13th in their class with the #59 and #58 cars respectively. Unfortunately, both cars didn't finish the race, with the #58 car managing only 136 laps, and the #59 car lasting
Grand Prix motor racing event of the Formula One World Championships is still called a "Grand Prix"; Formula One is referred to as "Grand Prix racing". Motor racing was started in France, as a direct result of the enthusiasm with which the French public embraced the motor car. Manufacturers were enthusiastic due to the possibility of using motor racing as a shop window for their cars. The first motoring contest took place on July 22, 1894 and was organised by a Paris newspaper, "Le Petit Journal". The Paris–Rouen rally was , from Porte Maillot in Paris, through the Bois de Boulogne, to Rouen. Count