My 24hrs in Le Mans

The diary is bursting at the seams!

I’ve just returned from Le Mans on a flying visit to see this great for the first time for real.

What a show.

I was only there for not even 24 hours, almost enough you might say, except I arrived Friday afternoon at 5.30pm…  in time for dinner!! 

Peugeot UK were hosting journalists for the race and I arrived just as the drivers parade started. 

Next morning I made my way to the circuit for race day - and a briefing about my much anticipated ‘lap’.

 It's not every day you get invited to drive the Le Mans 24hr race circuit closed off, yet alone with a baited audience!... Oh they were for the race! 

At 11.00am our ‘lap’ had turned into a fully choreographed  10-car Peugeot RCZ stunt team!!

With six formations to remember, add a VIP to the passenger seat (to witness everything) and 200,000 odd race fans… rallying at this moment felt  a doddle!! 

What an experience! We were coming out of the last chicane on to the start finish straight at 13.00….. try and tell me we are in road cars.

I’ve been placed 5th in our 1st formation (funnily enough), ‘I coming to the front’ just as we cross the start/finish line and I hit the power, the radio crackles ‘formation deux!’….

It was one hell of an experience and even though we weren’t  racing, apparently from the outside it looked fantastic!! 

So back to the day job, boarding a plane to Ypres for a two-day test.

Looking forward to the test and the rally massively!

So I’ll let you know how it goes!

Guy