[LM24] Historical Le Mans 'class' evolution ???

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Hello,

Been looking at different classes over the years which of course creates some inevitable confusion :-) on my part.

From 1961 to 1962 they went from

Class S and GT ('61) to
Class EXP and GT ('62).

Was EXP completely new or was there any connection to the previous S class? Did the cars that used to be in the previous S class get more or less morphed into GT?

It appeears that EXP continued on in following years as P ('63+) and SP ('68+).

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Also Class S did reappear in 1966. But this Class S seems to occupy more 'exotic' and 'super cars' or very low production race cars vs the more mass produced sports cars of the old '61 Class S. True?


Thanks,
-T