The filth and the fury of the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
as a journalist in 2015 as a guest of Nissan in what would be an ill-fated year.I slept in a six-by-eight-foot storage container stacked on the loge level of the Stade Marie-Marvingt, the 25,064-seat home to Le Mans Football Club right inside Tertre Rouge, the turn that sets up the blistering rocket ride of the Mulsanne straight. When I arrived at the stadium, I was given a rudimentary Nismo-branded shaving kit and a pair of red tartan paper slippers to wear to the bathroom.
I’m sure there are hotels and caviar for the snot-nosed elites, wherever they’re hiding. But that’s not the essence of Le Mans. Le Mans would be a blue-collar orgy if everyone weren’t passed out from drinking too much cheap wine.Getty Images It’s not just a carnival atmosphere that adds texture to the 24 lawless hours. There’s actually a carnival.Nissan had commissioned certified motorsport weirdo-genius Ben Bowlby , who had devised, built, and unleashed—at Le Mans, of all places—a half-baked front-engine, front-wheel-drive LMP1 that wedded a twin-turbo V-6 with a flywheel-based hybrid system, which would theoretically send power to the rear wheels.
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