24h Le Mans
Many concerts are already set to provide the soundtrack for race week heading into the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and Test Day is already looking like a great teaser thanks to some of the teams and the working atmosphere in the pits.
Two teams in the LM P2 class are putting special emphasis on music in their decorations. The sides of Irish team Murphy Prototypes' Oreca 03 (No. 48) pay tribute to Jazz, as a nod to the extracurricular activities of its American gentleman-driver, Mark Patterson, a chairman on the Board of Directors of Jazz at Lincoln Center, one of the most prestigious American music institutions, based in New York. American team ESM's two Ligier JS P2s (No. 30 and 31) sport the colours of Rolling Stone magazine.
Life in the pits, simultaneously frenzied and hyper-focused in anticipation of Scrutineering, is also scored with different music from one pit to the next. British team Jota Sport often goes with classic rock from the 1970s like Led Zeppelin, AC/DC or even Isaac Hayes and his legendary "Shaft" soundtrack. A few pits away, the technical team for the three 919 Hybrids is working to the sound of Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing in the Dark" (1984). It's one of the more unique aspects - and charming - of Test Day: the pits at the 24 Hours of Le Mans can turn into veritable jukeboxes!
Jean-Philippe Doret / ACO - Translation by Nikki Ehrhardt / ACO
Photo: LE MANS (SARTHE, FRANCE), CIRCUIT DES 24 HEURES, 24 HOURS OF LE MANS, FRIDAY MAY 29 2015. The decoration of the Ligier JS P2s belonging to the American team ESM will be specific to the 2015 24 Hours of Le Mans.
