Richard Craill talks about his emotions and experiences on his first visit to the Le Mans 24 hours
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With much talk of the Le Mans centenary we take a chance to look back at that first-ever race. There was no official winner declared in those early days, it was a car’s performance over three consecutive years which counted, and the original racetrack was more like a gravel rally stage than a race circuit. You can hear why a last minute change of heart by W.O. Bentley changed the course of his eponymous brand forever.
Paul Jurd and Paul Tarsey are in the UK and at Le Mans are the full team of contestants. Regulars Joe Bradley, Jim Roller and Peter Snowdon are joined by ‘the voice of Radio Le Mans’ John Hindhaugh. Their challenge is to choose any car, any driver and any circuit layout since 1923. The difficult bit is that they each need to be from a different era!
Jonny Palmer and Joe Bradley look at the entry list to this year’s race. Race 1 commentary from Jonny Palmer and Bruce Jones with Joe Bradley in the pits Race 2 commentary from Richard Craill and Jonny Mowlem, with Joe Bradley in the pits
Tuesday Jonny Palmer and John Hindhaugh open the week’s live broadcasting with features and previews. Ian James talks about his late entry in this year’s race, Richard Dean and Phil Hanson preview the competition in LMP2 and John Hindhaugh talks to Chris Sagemueller from AMG Mercedes about the Crowdstrike F1 safety car. Plus producing tyres for NASCAR’s Garage 56 entry and Ben Keating on GTE Thursday Jonny Palmer and Paul Truswell look back at Wednesday’s action and discuss what can be interpreted from the lap times so far. Colin Braun talks about his return to Le Mans with Crowdstrike, 16 years after his debut; Kamui Kobayashi reveals his NASCAR ambition and Racecar Engineering’s Andrew Cotton looks ahead to what he thinks will happen in the race. Saturday John Hindhaugh and Nick Daman host the final Lunchtime at Le Mans as the build-up to the race continues. Nick reveals how pit garage allocations could affect the outcome of the race. Plus more Le Mans memories from Andrew Marriott, Stefan Wendl from AMG Mercedes Customer Racing on their partnership with Crowdstrike, and a look at the 2024 calendars for the FIA World Endurance Championship and Asian Le Mans Series.
John Hindhaugh and Paul Truswell discuss the Hypercar entries for this year’s 24 hours.
John Hindhaugh and Richard Craill report from two days of pésage.