GM to race 24 hours

NASCAR’s Next Generation Stock Car will race at the Le Mans 24 Hours in 2023 if plans by Hendrick Motorsport, Chevrolet and Goodyear come to fruition. The go ahead to race still needs to be given by the ACO’s selection committee, but the idea is to run a Gen 7 car fitted with a hybrid system taken from the manufacturer’s LMDh platform as a Garage 56 entry.

The plan was hatched in 2020 between NASCAR president, Jim France, and ACO president, Pierre Fillon, and unveiled at Sebring. If it goes ahead, it would be the first time a Stock Car has competed in the great endurance race in nearly 50 years. The last time was in 1976, when the Grand International category was formulated specifically for