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Freeman [soylentnews.org] writes:

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/06/heres-what-happens-when-you-send-a-nascar-stock-car-to-le-mans/ [arstechnica.com]

When Le Mans renovated its facilities in 2012, it built 55 pit garages for regular entrants in its annual 24-hour race and one more for entrants that want to demonstrate something new (there are actually a total of 62 entrants this year, but the special one is still called Garage 56).

These have included the pint-size Nissan Deltawing [arstechnica.com] in 2012 and the closely related electric Nissan ZEOD RC [arstechnica.com] in 2014. In 2016, quadruple amputee Frédéric Sausset [arstechnica.com] did something neither of those two Nissans could manage, finishing the race in a specially modified prototype with the SRT 41 team, which repeated the feat with a pair of paraplegic drivers in 2021. And there have been attempts to run a hydrogen-powered racer from Garage 56 [arstechnica.com]. But this year's entry is a bit different—and a little more familiar to Americans. It's a NASCAR stock car.
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While it will be racing on the same track at the same time as the other 61 cars in the race, the Garage 56 entry is in its own class, and it's there to entertain the fans and hopefully finish the race rather than fight for overall victory. The drivers appear to be having fun, too [yahoo.com].

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