The history of 24 hours of Le Mans. The 24-hours of Le Mans race has been held annually since 1923, designed to test both cars and drivers for endurances and reactions. As the world’s oldest active sports car race in endurance racing, the 24-hours of Le Mans is one of the most prestigious automobile races in the world and has been called the 2022 PRICES. The “Early Bird” price for a Race Week admission ticket is €82. The €7 reduction on the full price of €89 applies until 28 February 2022. Race Weekend tickets are available for €73 (Early Bird rate). The full price will be €79. Other packages are available including grandstand seats. Le Mans, 1923, and the Bentley 3.0-litre Sport of John Duff and Frank Clement. To give you an idea of how Franco-centric this race was, consider that in the last Gordon Bennett Cup race in 1905 France, like every other nation, had been allowed a maximum of three cars. At Le Mans 18 years later, of the 35 cars that took the start, 32 were French 4fIsy.