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FARNHAM, SURREY, United Kingdom (Retrospectively via telephone) – In the 75 years that Le Mans has been running as a 24 hour race, the best finish by a woman has been a fourth place by Frenchwoman Odette Siko in 1932. Californian Liz Halliday, the only woman to drive in the 75th running of the 24 Hours of Le Man version of the aims to change that. She wants to win it all.
Lofty goals – but then when you hear Liz talk about here two passions driving fast cars and riding big horses (she is also attempting to qualify to the US Olympic Equestrian team) – one gets the impression that she might just be the woman to break through.
Halliday, 29, a Californian who now lives in United Kingdom says, “I like a purpose-built car,” referring to the Courage LMP2 car that she drove this year at Le Mans.

North Bend, WA — One of the great things about an event like the 24 Hours of Le Mans is, like the Olympics, it brings you in contact with many different people, and many different cultures. You can not help but leave an event like Le Mans without having a changed perspective.

One of the treats for me at Le Mans was having Laurent Charniaux sit next to Joe and I in the press room. In our short stay at Le Mans, our view of the world was changed in many ways — but one of the best things was getting to know this photographer.

North Bend, WA — One of the amazing things about the race at Le Mans is the number of cameras that attend the event — and I am talking about fans not the media. It doesn’t matter where you go on the track there are fans with cameras.

Sure, a goodly number of them have some sort of digital

snapshot camera — but you would be surprised how many folks are carrying around high end digital cameras — Nikons and Canons with the latest and greatest in lenses as the above picture, made from the top of the front straight away grand stand shows.