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That was an awesome review.
Sounds like an awesome adventure.
Scottie
On Jul 7, 2025, at 10:05 PM, Hunter Schultz <hunter.schultz [at] gmail.com> wrote:
Wow.
Terrific write up and it sounds like you had a great time. Thanks for all the tips!
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On Jul 7, 2025, at 7:21 PM, Michel Savard <mysavard [at] videotron.ca> wrote:
I was at the 24 Hours of Le Mans 2 weeks ago. For those interested in going in a near future, here are a few tips. I was there from wednesday to sunday:
You can buy a ticket for the week only, the race only or both. I went for both. The whole thing lasts 8 days. I think it was $500 cad total.
if you can find a hotel room in the city of Le Mans, try to get one close to a red tramway (super comfortable and silent and fast) stop. The last stop south gets you a few meters from the racetrack. Any blue tramway stop is good because you can get off at the
train station and then get on a red-line tramway. Pretty easy, 2 euros each way.
Wednesday: I spent the day in the city. Old Le Mans is pretty cool. Old City and 2 big churches are worth spending time. Food … well this is France. No problem, plenty of choices. All done while walking around. Starting on General Leclerc Street right in front
of the train station, is the walk of fame. Just like in Hollywood, they have plaques on the sidewalk of Le Mans winners. Feet and hands imprint in cast iron (or something like that). I took a picture of all of them.
Thursday: Racetrack all day long. They have lots of 30/45/60 minutes races of different categories (Porsche, Mustang) great fun, but I was amazed at how many yellow and red flags they had. Lots of amateur I guess in those support races. On a 13 kms-long track,
these take a lot of time off the race time. I gave up quickly in watching those.
Worth watching though was the all-in practice for 3 hours in late afternoon. All-in because EVERYBODY (62 cars I think) was on the racetrack. Pretty awesome. I even took a 10-minute helicopter ride for 150 euros around the racetrack. Pilot went around twice.
A great opportunity for fantastic videos.
Friday: 2 support races, did a lot of shopping: Steve McQueen is still very big…. and very expensive. I didn’t buy any souvenir with his name on it. That’s how expensive it was. I got 9 books about him here in my little museum but I couldn’t afford anything
there. if you like model cars, they have thousands of choices. Mostly 1/43rd and other scales. I got the usual, pins, keychains, t-shirt, polo shirt, small travel bag (very cool one). But the big one for friday is the walk around the track. Start at 15h00,
13.4 kms of walking, I did it in 3 hours, twice they stopped us to check we all had our ticket. So, that slowed us a lot. I guess they are afraid some people will get on the track through the forest or something. Again I took pictures all along the racetrack.
Took picture for straight line, then 100m sign before each turn or chicane, picture in the turn, out of the turn and then over again same pattern for 13 kms.
Museum is super, no waiting. Go there during the week. Too many people saturday and sunday, I saw long lines. Little circular room with 4,478 1/43 model cars of past participants, 7-8 models of pits from early years and plenty of cars of course.
Food: Usual burgers and fries, but this being France, you can have some pretty awesome food that you never get at racetracks around the world. Beer 10 euros. Pasta with salmon 15 euros. WOW!
Paddocks were accessible. So, you can see mechanics taking cars apart within 3 feet from you.
Raceday saturday: If you have a reserved seat, no problem. If not, you better get there super super early. Even if the start is at 16h. I was sitting in a grandstand just in front of the Ferrari pits (4), see picture included when Kubica won. The grid walk
is even bigger than in Formula 1. With about 60 cars, that’s a lot of VIPs. Roger Federer was invited to say the famous “Pilotes démarrez vos moteurs”.
And away they went.
I actually stayed up for the 24 hours. Pretty brutal at 66 years old. But I did it and was very proud. I’ll never do that again. You really don’t see much. I walked all night long to have different views. People fall asleep absolutely anywhere, it’s funny.
I got out sunday 16h right after the race
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. Back at my friend's apartment, I saw the Formula 1 Canadian Grand Prix live on television. Cool isn’t it ? That means I stayed up for 40 hours all in all. I slept for 10 hours after that.
I hope this helps to convince you to go go go.
I retired last december and already I got 3 big ones off my bucket list: Australian F1 race, 24 Hours of Le Mans and Roland-Garros tennis tournament.
Next one is in october (21-26), in Mugello for the Finali Mondiali Ferrari.
Forza Ferrari
Michael Savard
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