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Celebrating the weird and wonderful monsters of sportscar racing

Few disciplines of motorsport offer better possibilities to build a colossus of the track than sportscars. For Autosport's recent Monsters of Motorsport special issue, we picked out some of the finest (and not so fine) that have graced sportscar classics including Le Mans, Daytona and Sebring

Exactly how much horsepower Mark Blundell had under his right foot when he claimed pole position for Nissan at the 1990 Le Mans 24 Hours can never truly be known. But it was probably in excess of a monstrous 1100bhp. That goes a long way to explaining his six-second margin at the top of the timesheets.

The 3.5-litre twin-turbo V8 in the back of his Nissan R90CK was a big-boost qualifying special designed to give 900bhp or perhaps more. But the extra horses he had at his disposal when he set out on arguably the most famous single lap in Le Mans history early in final qualifying on Thursday night resulted from a technical problem.

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