While Mark Webber, freshly retired from Formula 1 at the end of 2013, was the highest profile ex-F1 star racing at the Circuit de la Sarthe this past weekend, the Le Mans field, as is so often the case, was graced by a heap of former-F1 talent, with 19 former racers competing in the 2014 event. While there was ultimately heartbreak for Webber and the rest of the #20 Porsche crew on the marques return to Le Mans, as the car slowed from second overall late in the race, there was success for a number of other former-F1 stars up and down the field, with four ex-F1 racers on the overall podium and a GTE class win for two more. Lucas di Grassi and Marc Gene – the latter standing in for...
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