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The night hours
Between one and four in the morning the crowd thins, the cars are lit, and the race becomes something else entirely. Most first-time visitors sleep through the best part of it.

Jun 1970 · Le Mans, France
A full day and a full night of racing on public roads outside a quiet French town. Nothing else in motorsport asks this much of a car, and nothing else sounds like the Mulsanne at three in the morning.
Go
Between one and four in the morning the crowd thins, the cars are lit, and the race becomes something else entirely. Most first-time visitors sleep through the best part of it.
Explore
The old walled town above the modern one — Roman walls, a Plantagenet cathedral, cobbled streets. Twenty minutes from the circuit and a thousand years away from it.
Stay
The region is full of them and the hotel stock in Le Mans is not the point. Take a house half an hour out and drive in.
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