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An Exhausting 'Day of Rest'

Friday at Le Mans has traditionally been considered as a 'day of rest' for teams, media and, most of all, the drivers in the 24 Hours, but that tradition seems to have lost substance over recent years, and Friday has been transformed into one of the most exhausting, and demanding, days in the week's schedule.

Photo: Marcus Potts / CMC

Photo: Marcus Potts / CMCWhile the engineers and mechanics have to complete ground-up rebuilds of their cars in anticipation of the next day's race, everyone else is scurrying around in a frantic panic to keep up with appointments, business lunches, guest presentations, garage tours, press conferences, photo opportunities and every other possible get-together that human ingenuity can contrive - and the whole pandemonium is executed within an environment populated by 250,000 spectators, many wandering around aimlessly in a drunken haze. At the end of the day it is, one supposes, all part of the glorious panoply that is The Le Mans 24 Hours.

The highlight of the day was the evening Driver Parade through the city streets. Mike, Tommy and Chris perched aboard the rear scuttle of a splendid ivory-white Ford Type A, circa 1930, owned (and driven) by Monsieur Joseph Molitineau of St Cyr sur Loire.

A selection of photographs from the day follows, starting with an autograph session in the pitlane.

Photo: Marcus Potts / CMC

Photo: Marcus Potts / CMC

Photo: Marcus Potts / CMC

Photo: Marcus Potts / CMC

Photo: Marcus Potts / CMC

Photo: Marcus Potts / CMC

Photo: Marcus Potts / CMC

Photo: Marcus Potts / CMC

Photo: Marcus Potts / CMC

All photographs by Marcus Potts / CMC


The Le Mans 2009 gallery can be accessed here

Le Mans 24 Hours 2009

Circuit de la Sarthe, Le Mans, France
Final Preparations - Friday June 12th 2009