Six-time Olympic champion Chris Hoy is set to compete at the legendary 24 Hours of Le Mans race this June.
The endurance race which was first run in 1923 will take place on the 18th and 19th of June. The Scot along with two team-mates will drive a Nissan-powered Ligier JS P2 chassis at the famous circuit.
He will become the second Olympic champion to race at Le Mans. In 1962, French skier Henri Oreiller, who won the men’s downhill and combined at the 1948 Games took part in the race.
Shortly after retiring in 2013, Hoy took up motor racing and he contested the inaugural season of the Radical Sportscars SR1 Cup taking his first motorsport podium at Snetterton in the same season.
He has since contested selected rounds of the Radical SR3 Challenge and Radical European Masters in Radical’s SR3 RS and SR8 RX open sportscars.
In 2014, it was announced that Hoy would be joining the British GT championship driving a Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 with a view to competing in the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2016.
Hoy took his first victory in international competition at the opening round of the 2015 European Le Mans Series at Silverstone where he drove a Ginetta-Nissan to a class win alongside team-mate Charlie Robertson
