Motorcycle Sport & Leisure

Le Mans

With some symmetry it was 24 years ago that I first went to the 24-hour race at Le Mans. I returned for at least half-a-dozen years watching both the MotoGP and the 24-hour. All these years later I have been back, for the first time in at least a decade. So what has changed? What is still the same? Everything and nothing.

Riding into Le Mans, two-finger saluting bikers are everywhere. Not our two-finger salute you understand, but French V for victory delivered from

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