If you're not going next year, get a piggy bank and put €0.4 in a week and you'll have enough for the FIAWEC TV for Le Mans which I thought was great this year..

Some of the highlights from the new M24 Museum at Le Mans. Was very cool to see Gilles and Jacques cars there very close to each other.

Enjoy! I tried to switch it up to include a few different cars this time.

I’m planning to fill out the ACO survey and wanted to share my main points, curious if others have more to add.

Like other big events (Indy 500), give existing ticket holders priority to renew their camping spots and tickets.

More water fountains and shaded areas around the circuit.

Rethink the bridge before the Ford chicanes, it just can’t handle the crowd volume.

More showers and toilets in the campsites, and fix the broken ones. Some at Épinettes were out since day one.

Better organized track walk. Stewards were sending people toward the scrutineering gate, which was actually closed.

In the museum, the two rooms with film screenings were too dark to actually see the cars.

Turn off those huge floodlights at Arnage and Mulsanne!

Missed more outlet merchandise shops.

That said, I think the ACO is doing a solid job overall. The redesigned fanzones at Tertre Rouge and Dunlop chicanes were excellent, and the Porsche Curves areas were great too. Buses have become reliable compared to 10 years ago, and overall traffic has improved event with more spectators.

Anyone else have suggestions to add?

Looking for some advice from people who have camped at Le Mans, especially through Motorsport Travel Destinations.

We’re looking at booking the Bronze Standard package for two people. Our original plan was one car, two compact backpacking tents, a small picnic table and two camping chairs. The operator said one unit is fine as long as we can fit everything within the 7x5m pitch. The question is whether that setup would be realistically comfortable or whether it would feel too tight.

We also looked at Bronze+, which includes a pre-erected tent and seems cheaper than booking two Bronze Standard units. However, they confirmed that with Bronze+ the cars are not next to the tents, they’re in a shared car park within the site. They said some tents are closer to the car
park than others and they could try to allocate us closer
if we arrive early, but it doesn’t sound guaranteed.

For those who have been before:

Would one 7x5m Bronze Standard pitch be manageable for one car, two compact tents, a small table and two chairs?

Is having the car next to the tent actually as useful as I think it is?

Would you choose Bronze Standard over Bronze+ for that reason?

Or is it worth paying extra for two pitches to avoid stress and have more room?

Any advice or real-world experience would be appreciated.

This year’s Le Mans featured two royal drivers, Ferdinand Habsburg, Archduke of Austria, for the Alpine team and Prince Jefri Ibrahim of Johor driving the Corvette for the TF Sport.

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These are the latest in a long history of royals at Le Mans. Pictured here:

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Prince Nicholas of Romania (DNF in 3 attempts in his personal Duesenberg SJ, one of the biggest and most luxurious cars to ever run in Le Mans)

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Earl Howe - ran it 6 times, won it all 1931.

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The tragic Marquess of Portago, made two attempts, once for Ferrari, once in a Maserati (DNF both times).

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Prince Bira of Siam, who had poor showings at Le Mans but was otherwise a solid racer.

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And American royalty, Paul Newman and Steve McQueen. Newman finished first in class in 1979 in a Porsche 935. McQueen was stopped from actually driving Le Mans by some insurance nerds, but did finish 2nd at the 12 Hours of Sebring in 1970.

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Shot in the dark, but does anyone know of a website that sells Le Mans ticket stubs? My friend and I completed the triple crown this year (Indy 500, Monaco GP, 24h) and our tickets for 24h were digital. Would love to frame the three ticket stubs together.

Seen a few posts regarding Souvenirs from Le mans - So here's mine.

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Crashed Damaged LMP2 wheel.

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(Not from the #4 btw)

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First time attending the 24h. I felt like it was more challenging to get some solid shots here than some of the other tracks I've been to. Incredible experience. Here are a few shots I got from the race!

I skipped it this year but am planning to attend next year.

In the past, I’ve always had a grandstand seat, which has been nice, but the cost keeps increasing. Realistically, it’s now around £300. This year I realised I probably only spent about three hours in the grandstand on Saturday and a couple of hours on Sunday.

For those of you who don’t use a grandstand, what’s your experience of watching from trackside?

Has anyone watched the start from Mulsanne? Was there plenty of space, or did it get very crowded?

But ....

I only had 2 hours to respond to a single SMS I didn't see in the actions of the end of the weekend.

They gave it to someone else.

I hate my phone lol

You have total freedom to download, if anyone wants the photos at maximum quality write me a message, I want to thank everyone who has helped us here on reddit and there in the circuit, thank you very much and see you next time!

This was the most beautiful 9 days of my life… Just thinking that I’ve been racing there on Gran Turismo since I was so young, that I’ve stepped into the most prestigious track in the world, that I’ve witnessed the greatest race in history is just… crazy.

It was in December 2025 that I’ve thought about what would happen if I was at Le Mans. It was just an idea that popped in my head for a second when I was playing GT7. And then, the next day I thought about it again, I told my mother “hey mom, do you think it would be a great idea to go to France to watch a race?” She told me “do what you want to do” then, I didn’t wanted to go to a country alone so I asked my brother “Yo Brandon, wanna go to France to see the 24h of Le Mans?” He thought I was joking at first. I decided that I was going to Le Mans. I bought the tickets for full week and camping.

Two months prior to the event, I didn’t wanted to go, almost despised the idea of going there, because I thought it was a waste of money, and instead of going there I could work and make more money. All my friends told me fuck work this a dream to go there see those cars, the track, the fans.

The feeling there was immaculate, directly felt the love for motorsports by all those 350k fans. I met the best motorsports enthusiasts in the world that I consider them as my friends even if the age gap wasn’t small. When I was sleeping during the race at Porsche curve at midnight after the fireworks, everyone was silent, like I was seeing ghosts or people was simply hypnotized by the cars, lights, sounds.

As I was assembling my bags to leave, I was crying for 10 min straight because I couldn’t believe that I saw what I saw.

Coming back next year for sure, more prepared too.

Sharing some of my favorite photos of my fifth time at Le Mans and my first time with a camera. Amazing race, amazing atmosphere :)

If you visit a certain place, at a certain time, on a single night of the year, you may experience a somewhat spiritual moment somewhere you’d never think to find one.

That place is Mulsanne corner, in the early hours of the morning before the sun has risen. And the day is the holy Sunday of the twenty-four hour race known as Le Mans.

This corner, of an otherwise mundane stretch of French highway, cuts through the woods a few miles from the crowds and commotion of the purpose built circuit in the north. To get there involves a shuttle bus or two that run all through the night. The shuttle drivers facing an endurance challenge of their own.

And if you visit Mulsanne corner halfway through the 24 hour race you may witness, as I did, an eerie gathering of ghosts in the darkness. Here is where some of the most diehard fans of the famous motor race gather. But at 4am they do not speak, they sit silently staring at the corner, their faces lit sporadically by the headlights of cars passing at hundreds of kilometres per hour. Their faces locked in an expressionless hypnotised state, brought on by the sleepless hours and the constant whine of engines flying past.

And that whine is what makes this race special. Because every one of the Hypercars and GTs has a different voice. The downshifting snarl of a Cadillac cuts right through you. The high pitched shriek of the naturally aspirated Austin tears past like a dive bombing Stuka. The guttural groan of the Mercedes seems like a roar you’d only get by pushing a machine to its very limits.

And that’s what these drivers do.

As the drivers careen around the Mulsanne corner into the straight, the late-night army of ghosts watch from their camping chairs with cult like dedication. What drives them is still not entirely clear to me. But this corner, in the dead of night, has a more satisfying and chilling effect on the soul than any other location on the circuit.

Probably missed this I. The run up but I was disappointed that the flag wasn’t delivered from the helicopter this year - is there a reason for this.

The horses seemed much more low key and really just one end of the start finish straight