Endurance spectating at Le Mans - part 3
Following all the hi-jinks of the previous few days, by the time race day dawned, some of us were learning to pace ourselves. Some of us weren't and probably never would but I'd already twigged that the Le Mans 24 Heures can eat you up and spit you out. (Photo by Alan Mansell) With everything else going on you could easily forget that the world’s greatest motor race was about to take place. However, the trip into the city centre for the driver’s parade the night before had helped remind us. Thanks to Sarrazin’s flying lap, the No.8 Peugeot 908 driven by Franck Montagny was on pole alongside the No.1 Audi of Alan McNish. In 3rd and 4th position on the grid were two more 908s but this didn’t mean anything – they’d started strongly last year and Audi had won in the end. In LMP2 Caspar Elgaard’s Team Essex Porsche headed the pack while in GT1 the Corvette C6R driven by Jan Magnusson had been fastest in practice – and its V8 sounded the best of all engines in the race. In GT2, witho...