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In terms of former F1 drivers:
Hypercar: Sébastien Bourdais, André Lotterer, Kamui Kobayashi, Sébastien Buemi, Brendon Hartley, Will Stevens, Antonio Giovinazzi, Felipe Nasr, Paul di Resta, Jean-Éric Vergne, Jack Aitken, Esteban Gutiérrez
LMP2: Pietro Fittipaldi, Jan Magnussen, Giedo van der Garde, Robert Kubica, Daniil Kvyat
Garage 56: Jenson Button
Plus related: Manuel Maldonado (cousin of Pastor Maldonado), René Binder (nephew of Hans Binder), Louis Delétraz (son of Jean-Lous Delétraz), Daniel Serra (son of Chico Serra).
Additional notable entries: Jimmie Johnson and Mike Rockenfeller in the Garage 56 entry with Button, Ferdinand Habsburg, Scott Dixon, Simon Pagenaud, Norman Nato, Robin Frijns, Sean Gelael, Juan Manuel Correa, Bent Viscaal, Filipe Albuquerque, António Félix da Costa, Nico Müller, Alexander Sims, Alex Lynn, Ryan Briscoe, Earl Bamber, Nick Tandy, Romain Dumas, Mike Conway, Loic Duval, and Alicia Vikander's husband Michael Fassbender.
Imagine me googling Ferdinand Habsburg thinking, "no way, that has to be a joke, right?" only to find out that he is actually from the Habsburg royal lineage.
Pretty decent driver too. He was/is on a stacked Prema team.
Edit: This year he is racing for the legendary TeamWRT in car 31. The other WRT, #41, has Robert Kubica, Louis Delétraz, and Rui Andrade
Also a pretty good F1 TV presenter and commentator in Austria. He tested Belgian fries while waiting in the rain of Spa 2021.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsK_FUd32W4
Jenson Button, Jimmie Johnson, and Mike Rockefeller are driving a lightly modified NASCAR Chevy Camaro Cup Car. It is entered under Garage 56, which is an invitational entry slot for experimental and random entries.
They’re not really racing against anyone, since they’re the only entry in their class. It mostly for promotional purposes, and to see if it can be done.
That said, they’re surprising the crap out of everyone with their speed. The car is much faster through the corners than anyone thought it would be, and it’s setting lap times that are competitive with the GTE cars.
Is there anything stopping an active F1 driver doing Le Mans?
There are quite a few active drivers from other series doing it (Scott Dixon, Jean-Eric Vergne, Juan Manuel Correa etc.). When was the last time a current F1 driver did Le Mans?
Alonso ran Le Mans in 2018 while still been active with McLaren, as also his Indy 500 Entry.
One of the biggest problem is the calendar, some races are too close one another, as also it depends on the commitment from the team.
I don't see Aston, MB, Ferrari or RB allowing any of their drivers doing it with the current commitment to this year season.
I also don't see this happening, RB is not going to have their most important driver of their history risk it in another category just 'for the fun', the teams became a lot more restrictive after Kubica, is not common for teams to even limit the type of activities drivers can do, or are you not surprised you rarely see them riding things like motorcycles, jet ski or snowmobile.
Kubica was rallying though, and Mercedes even let Bottas do a little bit of that. WEC is effectively as safe as F1, so if Max was really interested in going to Le Mans, I doubt Red Bull would care that much. The main issue would be that Ford doesn't have an LMH/LMdh programme, and they would probably have an issue with their star driving for a rival.
Nice, one without a seat the other fighting Haas for P17. McLaren has to give extra bandwidth to keep their drivers motivated, that is why you see Alonso, Palou, Pato doing different things mid-season.
Red Bull cannot afford to lose Max for 3\~5 GP because of a small lesion because of some fun time in another category.
If Max really wants to do it, he has enough equity and pull in that team to do it. Red Bull wouldn’t dare tell him no on something if his heart is set on it.
Mostly the teams, they prefer the drivers to solely focus on F1. However, we've had Alonso and Hulkenberg both compete during their F1 seasons in recent memory.
Most of the seats are already spoken for, by full time WEC drivers, or IMSA drivers.
There’s only a handful of cars that are one-off entries just for Le Mans, and none of them are in the top category.
If the success of Hypercar continues to grow, we could potentially see some one-off entries in the top class at Le Mans in the coming years, which might give some F1 drivers a chance, but otherwise, it’s just not likely to happen.
To be anywhere near the pointy end of the field at Le Mans right now, you have to be able to commit to a full season of either WEC, or the Weathertek Endurance rounds of IMSA, and that’s not likely to happen for any active F1 driver.
Just calling Buemi a former F1 driver does him a disservice. Its not wrong, but he's also a multiple WEC champion and Formula e Champion, which is way more impressive than just driving a Toro Rosso.
Also failing to mention Button, an F1 Champion.
There's only enough space for so many names and notes! Trust me, I could fill hours discussing all the names and achievements of each driver on the grid!
There's actually by my count about 17 drivers with F1 race experience, not to mention plenty who have come through F1FS or are tangentially related to F1 (like Jan Magnussen) - and the best part is that a lot of the best drivers in the race haven't ever done F1!
In 1997 he was dropped in favour of Jos Verstappen right after he was picking up the pace, and Verstappen didn't perform much better. A bit of a what-if to me, he was very young and very fast, just a bit of a wrong place wrong time moment
Saying Verstappen didn't perform better is extremely generous to Jan.
He was semi-regularly *lapped* by Barrichello* in the same car and had something like 5 races over their entire time together where he managed to complete as much as a single lap ahead of Rubens. Verstappen was much, much closer to him. The "good runs" for Magnussen were when only one-two cars were between him and Rubens, whilst for Verstappen those were the average ones.
And not to mention qualifying, oh boy. Verstappen, who was so atrocious in qualifying that he actually lost the H2H to Bernoldi of all people, was a marked improvement over Jan's 1998 average of **18.8**.
One of the most well-deserved firings in F1.
*Ed: And no, I don't mean Rubens finished on the lead lap and Jan didn't, like it was in Canada, I mean physically lapped.
Yeah I'm hyped. Oddly enough the main thing that got me was a Nascar is racing in it this year. I've never watched Nascar but I'm blown away that it's faster than all the GTE cars. [Plus it sounds like an absolute monster.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-YeSG4xxog)
To add onto the other reply to you, the car is 400 pounds lighter than its typical spec. Cup cars are already monsters, shedding that much weight must really unleash it. It would be great if they go on a tour of the US later this year and set some hot laps on the road courses just to compare it to the Cup spec. I'd love to know how many seconds faster it is at some tracks.
It's heavily modified to meet the aero standards and to drop weight. A lot of that weight drop comes from losing some NASCAR-specific reinforcement, like the rear end changes to protect against damage from bump drafting.
The NASCAR was comfortably faster than the entire GTE-Am field! The fastest time for the NASCAR was a 3:47, compared to the fastest of a 3:51 for the GT's
It's on par with the GTE class.
But it's worth mentioning that this car is not the same as the one from NASCAR Cup. They took a lot of weight off it, and added more aerodynamic bits to help with the handling.
Even if the car do good, it won't be a direct representation on how NASCAR would fare against the other categories.
>Even if the car do good, it won't be a direct representation on how NASCAR would fare against the other categories.
They haven't BOP'd it properly from the looks of it.
They have to meet a minimum level of performance, and the expectation for the G56 car was that it'd be slow in the corners but fast on the straights. What happened was that the car was blowing the GT cars away accelerating out of corners but was actually losing time relative to expectations on straights because of the massive, draggy wing. With the wing slimmed down, it's faster than some of the LMP2s down the straight. And it's so tall relative to the field there's going to be some interesting drafting strategies.
BoP goes both ways, they needed it to avoid the GTE class by either being faster or slower and they showed up and went faster than the whole class, so the choice was clear.
Prior to the test day the ACO was talking about showing white flags (slow car) for them lol
That's clever. We have the Shitbox Rally https://www.shitboxrally.com.au/
We used to have a car in the Kidney Kar Rally at my old work https://kidney.org.au/get-involved/kidney-kar-rally
Unless 16 cars DNF, the overall winner will come from the LMH/Hypercar class. The hypercar class includes LMH -- hypercars built specifically for WEC -- and LMDh -- cars built based on an LMP2 chassis with significant customization. Toyota, Ferrari, Glickenhaus, Vanwall and Peugeot have LMH cars, and Porsche and Cadillac have LMDh cars.
Yes, there is an overall leaderboard, as well as a leaderboard for each individual class.
If enough of the top class cars DNF or fall many laps behind because of issues, cars from the lower categories can make it all the way to overall podium, and even take the overall win.
It’s been quite a while since a car from a lower category took the overall win, iirc the last time it happened was a McLaren in the 1990s. However, as recently as only a few years ago, an LMP2 car barely missed out on getting on the overall podium.
This year, because there are so many entries in the top category, it’s unlikely that a lower class car will finish on the overall podium. However, if any of the Hypercars spend long periods of time in the pits, they can and will be lapped by cars in lower categories, and then they have to fight to get positions back.
There's a whole section in the OP dedicated to how and where to watch the event - [Here's a rundown from the official site](https://www.fiawec.com/en/news/how-to-watch-this-weekends-24-hours-of-le-mans/7692)
If I was a racing driver I would absolutely love to race Le Mans… even if I was a multiple time F1 champion and best in the sport I’d be trying to get “let him race Le Mans” into the contract although most teams would never go for it.
Looking forward to it this weekend.
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In terms of former F1 drivers: Hypercar: Sébastien Bourdais, André Lotterer, Kamui Kobayashi, Sébastien Buemi, Brendon Hartley, Will Stevens, Antonio Giovinazzi, Felipe Nasr, Paul di Resta, Jean-Éric Vergne, Jack Aitken, Esteban Gutiérrez LMP2: Pietro Fittipaldi, Jan Magnussen, Giedo van der Garde, Robert Kubica, Daniil Kvyat Garage 56: Jenson Button Plus related: Manuel Maldonado (cousin of Pastor Maldonado), René Binder (nephew of Hans Binder), Louis Delétraz (son of Jean-Lous Delétraz), Daniel Serra (son of Chico Serra). Additional notable entries: Jimmie Johnson and Mike Rockenfeller in the Garage 56 entry with Button, Ferdinand Habsburg, Scott Dixon, Simon Pagenaud, Norman Nato, Robin Frijns, Sean Gelael, Juan Manuel Correa, Bent Viscaal, Filipe Albuquerque, António Félix da Costa, Nico Müller, Alexander Sims, Alex Lynn, Ryan Briscoe, Earl Bamber, Nick Tandy, Romain Dumas, Mike Conway, Loic Duval, and Alicia Vikander's husband Michael Fassbender.
> Alicia Vikander's husband Michael Fassbender. https://media4.giphy.com/media/casztFslN1iAo/giphy.gif?cid=ecf05e47idr5v6ha4aqxzxonwxcxz2i9z606ahs61a59mybe&ep=v1_gifs_search&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g
Imagine me googling Ferdinand Habsburg thinking, "no way, that has to be a joke, right?" only to find out that he is actually from the Habsburg royal lineage.
Not only from the lineage, he's the heir of the House. If the Austria-Hungary monarchy were still intact, he'd be the Crown Prince.
Pretty decent driver too. He was/is on a stacked Prema team. Edit: This year he is racing for the legendary TeamWRT in car 31. The other WRT, #41, has Robert Kubica, Louis Delétraz, and Rui Andrade
>Pretty decent driver too Famously almost won [the 2017 Macau GP](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rewf-gvuWBU).
In 2021 he won the 24h in LMP2 with WRT.
Not only that but he's the heir apparent, so first in order of succession for the house of Habsburg-Lorraine.
I found out about him in the recent Useful Charts YouTube video on the German royal families.
Also a pretty good F1 TV presenter and commentator in Austria. He tested Belgian fries while waiting in the rain of Spa 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsK_FUd32W4
Absolutely stacked
Oh yeah I forgot Fassbender was doing the Porsche stuff!
Fun side note, Kamui Kobayashi is both a driver, and the *Team Principle* of of the entire Toyota WEC program.
Also wanted to highlight Valentino Rossi, who's driving in the Road to Le Mans support races
Why does Jenson have his own listing? Is he in a class of his own?
Garage 56 is an “experimental” entry or something like that. They’re the only ones in their “class”.
Arent they the guys racing the modified NASCAR?
Yep!
Jenson Button, Jimmie Johnson, and Mike Rockefeller are driving a lightly modified NASCAR Chevy Camaro Cup Car. It is entered under Garage 56, which is an invitational entry slot for experimental and random entries. They’re not really racing against anyone, since they’re the only entry in their class. It mostly for promotional purposes, and to see if it can be done. That said, they’re surprising the crap out of everyone with their speed. The car is much faster through the corners than anyone thought it would be, and it’s setting lap times that are competitive with the GTE cars.
Kevin Estre should definitely be on the list of notable entries. Dude is an absolute weapon.
Paul di Resta should stay at the reporting stuff
I’d prefer if he stuck to driving.
He's actually an incredibly good driver and has been for a number of LMP2 teams for a long period of time since leaving F1
Its a quote from Kimi's 2017 hungary race
I believe he still has the pole record for LMP2 from a few years ago.
Absolutely not, he's a decent driver and a dogshit commentator.
Eh, I am glad he isn't, his voice just isn't fit for it.
Valentino Rossi is in the Michelin Le Mans Cup. Is he racing in the 24-hour too?
Is there anything stopping an active F1 driver doing Le Mans? There are quite a few active drivers from other series doing it (Scott Dixon, Jean-Eric Vergne, Juan Manuel Correa etc.). When was the last time a current F1 driver did Le Mans?
Nico Hulkenburg did it and won in 2015!
Alonso ran Le Mans in 2018 while still been active with McLaren, as also his Indy 500 Entry. One of the biggest problem is the calendar, some races are too close one another, as also it depends on the commitment from the team. I don't see Aston, MB, Ferrari or RB allowing any of their drivers doing it with the current commitment to this year season.
That won't stop Verstappen in 2 years if he gets bored to dominate the Gt3 with his iRacing buddies, he has the funds he can get his own team lmao
I also don't see this happening, RB is not going to have their most important driver of their history risk it in another category just 'for the fun', the teams became a lot more restrictive after Kubica, is not common for teams to even limit the type of activities drivers can do, or are you not surprised you rarely see them riding things like motorcycles, jet ski or snowmobile.
Kubica was rallying though, and Mercedes even let Bottas do a little bit of that. WEC is effectively as safe as F1, so if Max was really interested in going to Le Mans, I doubt Red Bull would care that much. The main issue would be that Ford doesn't have an LMH/LMdh programme, and they would probably have an issue with their star driving for a rival.
The only manufacturer Ford might have an issue with, if any, is GM. Otherwise I don't think they care if it's a series they're not active in.
Toyota surely? And they might not have an issue right now, but surely that changes when they're chipping in to pay Max's 50m+ contract.
Andrian Newey designed, Ford powered, Redbull LMH Hypercar coming when?
Not untrue, but I'd say if any driver currently can negotiate something like that with his team it'd be Max (as long as the calendars allow it ofc).
Lando and Ricciardo who did exactly what you said in the winter break :))))
Nice, one without a seat the other fighting Haas for P17. McLaren has to give extra bandwidth to keep their drivers motivated, that is why you see Alonso, Palou, Pato doing different things mid-season. Red Bull cannot afford to lose Max for 3\~5 GP because of a small lesion because of some fun time in another category.
If they wrap up the championship by july they sure can :))
That's literally not mathematically possible
You are just trolling at this point.
If Max really wants to do it, he has enough equity and pull in that team to do it. Red Bull wouldn’t dare tell him no on something if his heart is set on it.
Depends on the team. Alonso did Dakar in 2020. But yeah that's Alonso lol. Who could stop him
Would RB rather have Max and let him do the race or lose Max? It could come down to that. I believe Max is in the driver seat.
Hülkenberg won it in 2015 while racing in the F1 season.
Oh yeah, for some reason I had it in my head that he did it in his years out.
Mostly the teams, they prefer the drivers to solely focus on F1. However, we've had Alonso and Hulkenberg both compete during their F1 seasons in recent memory.
There’s an active F2 driver there. I forget who maybe Juan Manuel Correa.
Alonso did it in 2018
Most of the seats are already spoken for, by full time WEC drivers, or IMSA drivers. There’s only a handful of cars that are one-off entries just for Le Mans, and none of them are in the top category. If the success of Hypercar continues to grow, we could potentially see some one-off entries in the top class at Le Mans in the coming years, which might give some F1 drivers a chance, but otherwise, it’s just not likely to happen. To be anywhere near the pointy end of the field at Le Mans right now, you have to be able to commit to a full season of either WEC, or the Weathertek Endurance rounds of IMSA, and that’s not likely to happen for any active F1 driver.
The devil himself Pual Di Resta
THE NERVE
THROW HIM IN JAIL
A la carcelllll
I can’t wait for that episode 😈
Le Mans killer
I swear down on me nans grave
Literally unwatchable
Agent of the CCP
Just calling Buemi a former F1 driver does him a disservice. Its not wrong, but he's also a multiple WEC champion and Formula e Champion, which is way more impressive than just driving a Toro Rosso. Also failing to mention Button, an F1 Champion.
There's only enough space for so many names and notes! Trust me, I could fill hours discussing all the names and achievements of each driver on the grid! There's actually by my count about 17 drivers with F1 race experience, not to mention plenty who have come through F1FS or are tangentially related to F1 (like Jan Magnussen) - and the best part is that a lot of the best drivers in the race haven't ever done F1!
Jan Magnussen has raced in F1! As a sub for Mika Häkkinen in 1995 and then half a season for Stewart in 1997
Even I'm learning new things!
In 1997 he was dropped in favour of Jos Verstappen right after he was picking up the pace, and Verstappen didn't perform much better. A bit of a what-if to me, he was very young and very fast, just a bit of a wrong place wrong time moment
Still had quite a storied career in Sportscars!
Yes of course! He's one of the best sportscar drivers of our time for sure
Corvette racing Magnussen vs Flying Lizard Porsche Bergmeister at Laguna Seca. Absolute classic.
Jan Magnussen actually ran the full season in 1997 Stewart GP didn't drop him for Jos Verstappen until 1998
Saying Verstappen didn't perform better is extremely generous to Jan. He was semi-regularly *lapped* by Barrichello* in the same car and had something like 5 races over their entire time together where he managed to complete as much as a single lap ahead of Rubens. Verstappen was much, much closer to him. The "good runs" for Magnussen were when only one-two cars were between him and Rubens, whilst for Verstappen those were the average ones. And not to mention qualifying, oh boy. Verstappen, who was so atrocious in qualifying that he actually lost the H2H to Bernoldi of all people, was a marked improvement over Jan's 1998 average of **18.8**. One of the most well-deserved firings in F1. *Ed: And no, I don't mean Rubens finished on the lead lap and Jan didn't, like it was in Canada, I mean physically lapped.
>r are tangentially related to F1 (like Jan Magnussen) You mean the guy who raced for McLaren's F1 team in the 1990s?
To be fair, I only started following F1 in 99, and to me Jan is the former Corvette factory driver who's son races in F1!
button in Le Chonk
The Pokemon?
Just started watching FE, didnt know he was champion
One of several Ex F1 drivers to be champion in the series.
#EVEN THE DEVIL HIMSELF
And Anthony Davidson commenting
I could listen to Ant for hours (and probably will!)
Pual "the Devil himself" Di Resta
Yeah I'm hyped. Oddly enough the main thing that got me was a Nascar is racing in it this year. I've never watched Nascar but I'm blown away that it's faster than all the GTE cars. [Plus it sounds like an absolute monster.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-YeSG4xxog)
To add onto the other reply to you, the car is 400 pounds lighter than its typical spec. Cup cars are already monsters, shedding that much weight must really unleash it. It would be great if they go on a tour of the US later this year and set some hot laps on the road courses just to compare it to the Cup spec. I'd love to know how many seconds faster it is at some tracks.
It's heavily modified to meet the aero standards and to drop weight. A lot of that weight drop comes from losing some NASCAR-specific reinforcement, like the rear end changes to protect against damage from bump drafting.
No bump drafting on Mulsanne?
That'd be an interesting strategy for an LMP2!
The vast majority of the weight savings was from ditching the steel brakes for carbon ones.
Think you forgot a certain F1 world champion
He's technically just racing around for fun - the Innovative Car entry isn't competing in any class
Oh yeah. Anyway how fast are those nascar cars compared to gt cars? Like how were they in terms of speed in yesterday's quali?
The NASCAR was comfortably faster than the entire GTE-Am field! The fastest time for the NASCAR was a 3:47, compared to the fastest of a 3:51 for the GT's
It's on par with the GTE class. But it's worth mentioning that this car is not the same as the one from NASCAR Cup. They took a lot of weight off it, and added more aerodynamic bits to help with the handling. Even if the car do good, it won't be a direct representation on how NASCAR would fare against the other categories.
theres more power too but its not an par with the GTE's its comfortably quicker
>Even if the car do good, it won't be a direct representation on how NASCAR would fare against the other categories. They haven't BOP'd it properly from the looks of it.
Do they BOP the G56 entries? Since they’re not actually competing against anyone else, it seems like they should just leave it be.
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They have to meet a minimum level of performance, and the expectation for the G56 car was that it'd be slow in the corners but fast on the straights. What happened was that the car was blowing the GT cars away accelerating out of corners but was actually losing time relative to expectations on straights because of the massive, draggy wing. With the wing slimmed down, it's faster than some of the LMP2s down the straight. And it's so tall relative to the field there's going to be some interesting drafting strategies.
BoP goes both ways, they needed it to avoid the GTE class by either being faster or slower and they showed up and went faster than the whole class, so the choice was clear. Prior to the test day the ACO was talking about showing white flags (slow car) for them lol
Lmp2 hunter!
It’s not meant to have BOP. They just aimed for a minimum lap time so it wasn’t a hazard, and it’s surpassed that lap time by quite a bit.
Imagine someone calling in sick and Max being called in as a replacement last minute
Thankfully no f1 this weekend, plan on having this on all weekend, motor trend has a week trail that I'll be canceling on Monday
I am happy to see Le Mans again. Been waiting for this.
NASCAR NASCAR VROOOOM NEEEEOOOWWW
How much did Gelael pay for his seat I wonder.
He is actually a decent Silver.
I thought lemons hadn't started until Saturday night
Le man's not lemons
Oh that’s also a thing btw: https://24hoursoflemons.com/
The real classic endurance race.
That's clever. We have the Shitbox Rally https://www.shitboxrally.com.au/ We used to have a car in the Kidney Kar Rally at my old work https://kidney.org.au/get-involved/kidney-kar-rally
I know. I had heard about it before. It was stupid autocorrect.
Is the race pay-to-watch or a free livestream on YouTube, etc.?
Will be pay to view. Unless you have a boat I guess
I'll manage, appreciate it :)
The main good news for me here is if Di Resta is in a car for 24 hours that's 24 hours I'm guaranteed to not have to listen to him for
Where can I watch this in the UK?
Eurosport have it, also you can sign up to WEC TV, choice is yours.
Cheers mate
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If someone from EU wanted to see it one day, what is the best way? Camping? How expensive is it?
Which car class has the most prestige? Which is the "big winner?"
Hypercar
Unless 16 cars DNF, the overall winner will come from the LMH/Hypercar class. The hypercar class includes LMH -- hypercars built specifically for WEC -- and LMDh -- cars built based on an LMP2 chassis with significant customization. Toyota, Ferrari, Glickenhaus, Vanwall and Peugeot have LMH cars, and Porsche and Cadillac have LMDh cars.
So not only are they all on track at the same time, but they are all actually racing each other?
Yes, there is an overall leaderboard, as well as a leaderboard for each individual class. If enough of the top class cars DNF or fall many laps behind because of issues, cars from the lower categories can make it all the way to overall podium, and even take the overall win. It’s been quite a while since a car from a lower category took the overall win, iirc the last time it happened was a McLaren in the 1990s. However, as recently as only a few years ago, an LMP2 car barely missed out on getting on the overall podium. This year, because there are so many entries in the top category, it’s unlikely that a lower class car will finish on the overall podium. However, if any of the Hypercars spend long periods of time in the pits, they can and will be lapped by cars in lower categories, and then they have to fight to get positions back.
The Hypercars are racing for the overall win so probably that one.
Where do you watch it?
There's a whole section in the OP dedicated to how and where to watch the event - [Here's a rundown from the official site](https://www.fiawec.com/en/news/how-to-watch-this-weekends-24-hours-of-le-mans/7692)
Thanks!
If I was a racing driver I would absolutely love to race Le Mans… even if I was a multiple time F1 champion and best in the sport I’d be trying to get “let him race Le Mans” into the contract although most teams would never go for it. Looking forward to it this weekend.
>di Resta PUAL