Le Mans: Four hours before the start

This year Le Mans celebrates the 100th anniversary of the legendary race and there are only four hours left until the start of the marathon. Exactly at 4 p.m. local time, the race officially starts, but even before that all cars are already on the starting field, a helicopter with the French flag flies over it, the choir sings the Marseillaise, the national anthem of France, and aerobatics will demonstrate their skills in the skies over the French Air Force’s Patrouille de France track group.

At 12:00 the teams have the last opportunity to check the readiness of the vehicles on the track: a short “warm-up” session lasts 15 minutes, during which you still have time to fine-tune the cars and adapt them to the current weather conditions.

By the way, today they can be quite difficult, because just closer to the start of the race, the forecast promises not only rain, but rather heavy rain, possibly a thunderstorm. In addition, the precipitation may last until about midnight, but how everything will actually be, we will soon find out. Meanwhile, Le Mans is dry and calm, but the weather is cloudy and the air temperature is about 23 degrees. Although the humidity is high and it looks like it’s about to drizzle…