TopGear.com live from the Le Mans 24hrs
Welcome everyone, to the 79th running of the 24 hours of Le Mans. It is, quite simply, the greatest race in the world. Fifty-six cars will compete on an eight-and-a-half mile circuit from Saturday afternoon to Sunday afternoon in the hope of a) not crashing, and b) taking top honours.We’ll have full access to the famous Circuit de la Sarthe to try to bring you, loyal TopGear.commer, some sideways pictures, videos and thoughts from the oldest endurance motor race on Earth. I’ll be reporting live from the Signateceh-Nissan team where GT Academy winner Lucas Ordonez will see if his twiddly PlayStation skills can transfer into a real, V8-powered weapon of oversteer as he makes his LMP2 debut.
And Matthew Jones will be trying not to get in the way of a vital pit-stop as our ‘writer-at-large’…
Matthew Jones: those with an impeccable memory may recall the live coverage I brought you from the last round of the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup at Spa in Belgium.
This time round I’ll be doing the same on a larger stage and with even less sleep – some behind-the-scenes access to the teams, race reports as they happen and all the best car culture goings on from the hordes of infamously ‘refreshed’ spectators.
If you want to see anything, get us to speak to anyone or get up close with any of the cars, let me know and I’ll do my best to get you the info you want. Fire your questions/requests/abuse into the handy space below.
And we’re off…
