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.

North Bend, WA — They say you can’t tell a horse without a program — and the same is true at The 24 Hours of Le Mans, where there are four classes of cars and nearly 50 cars screaming around the 8.48 mile track. So while this should have been one of the first articles, let’s look at the classes, what constitutes each class and the winners at the 75th running of this famous race.There are four main classes at the 24 Hours of Le Mans designated by the following: