A new name will join the Hypercar grid in the World Endurance Championship next year, and you probably hadn’t even heard of it until quite recently.
Unless, that is, you are a cinema aficionado. There hasn’t been an Isotta Fraschini road car built since the early 1950s, but its luxury limousines were once commonplace in Hollywood, on screen and off. One featured in the 1950 classic Sunset Boulevard and they were also the transport of choice of the likes of silent movie star Rudolph Valentino in the 1920s.
The return of a marque whose racing heritage is buried in the mists of time – it won the Targa Florio in 1908 – with the new Tipo 6 LMH Competizione is a complicated one. But at its heart is a decision by a much more famous name in Italian motorsport. The catalyst for a car that has been testing since April and will be raced in the WEC in 2024 with the British Vector Sport team came from Ferrari. The Le Mans Hypercar project that
