This years Le Mans is happening this weekend. For more info, here's a link to the Official site. https://www.24h-motos.com/en/program?date=2026-04-18
Awesome spectacle, used to go every year as a young man, the silence just before the start at 3pm on Saturday is astonishing, as is the 24 hour endurance drinking ;-)
Status this morning Interesting looking through the Pit Times statisctics. Kawasaki Orleans have obviously had some trouble with over 5 hours in pits, there area few on 5-6 Hrs of total pit times - a difficult night for some.
If you’re a bit bored of Ducati dominance elsewhere, I think it’s safe to say this is the very race for you.
I wonder why there did not appear to be a single Ducati in the line up. There were a couple of Aprilia V4 bikes - placed P14 & P20 - but otherwise they all looked to be inline 4 cylinder engined bikes. Maybe inline 4 cylinder Jap bikes are just more reliable for a 24 hour endurance race.
The race commentators were discussing this issue, and said that there were no Ducati's racing due to their cost. BMW and Japanese are cheaper to run.
No that was Gino Rea…. Along with Leon Haslam and Steve Brogan. Cracking race, really enjoyed that, likewise i’d like to get along to it one year. The car race is just so stupidly busy now that it makes getting around the outer reaches of the circuit a very time consuming thing. But i do miss going there, did something like 22 or 23 consecutive car races previously
Oh, and great to see Toms Ward and Oliver get 3rd in class…. That looked ominous at just after 6am when he got involved with a collision near Goodyear/Dunlop Bridge and then his team management were summoned to the stewards office! Wardy lives about 300mtrs from me, so great to cheer on one of the locals
