Etienne Psaila
Across a century of innovation, rivalry, and raw endurance, 24-hour racing has remained motorsport’s most unrelenting test. Chasing Midnight: The Golden Age of 24-Hour Racing traces the full evolution of long-distance competition-from the dust and daring of early Le Mans to the corporate stakes of Ford vs. Ferrari, the turbocharged fury of Group C, the chaos of Sebring, the glory of Daytona, and the dawn of today’s global Hypercar era. Told with clarity and precision, it captures the races, machines, and personalities that shaped endurance racing’s defining decades.This book follows the sport’s breakthroughs and challenges, chronicling the technological leaps that redefined what cars could survive, and the human stories that made each victory more than a matter of speed. It examines the historic rivalries, the rise of legendary manufacturers, the changing rules that reinvented the sport, and the modern convergence of global regulations that ushered in a new golden era.Grounded entirely in fact, Chasing Midnight illuminates how engineering brilliance, strategic mastery, and human resilience converged to create the world’s most demanding motorsport tradition-one that continues to captivate drivers, teams, and fans across the globe.
