A visit to Le Mans has been on my bucket list for years. The number of times I’d wished to spend my birthday weekend drunk in a tent next to a racetrack escapes me, yet for many reasons that wish hadn’t been realised. Thankfully with age, the desire of being drunk has diminished – the aim now is to get high on petrol fumes and savour the atmosphere. Le Mans Classic, organised by Peter Auto, felt like it could deliver the drug I craved, so a plan was hatched to go and sample the magic with Total 911 editor, Lee Sibley.
Five hours on the Poole to Cherbourg ferry and three hours on the road in Lee’s 996.1 Carrera got us to our base for the weekend, a château just north of Le Mans. The trip was punctuated with sightings of other disciples taking part in this bi-annual pilgrimage to La Sarthe in various enthusiast cars – of particular note was an early 911 SC Cabriolet. That, good sir, was a fantastic choice of transport for the weekend.
The château itself had been organised by the great team
