The first race was run in 1923. The lap record was nine minutes 39 seconds. The average speed, 66.69 miles per hour.

13 seconds sound clip from the Le Mans (1971) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:15:38 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. On this circuit, the world's most famous motor race is run.

- Conceived by Charles Faroux and Georges Durand shortly after the First World War, the course was named after the nearest town, and the number of hours that men and machines are put to the supreme test of speed and stamina.

- The circuit is 13.469 kilometers. Or 8.418 miles.

- Composed of country roads linked through the main highway, nearly all of it open to traffic 363 days a year.

- Along the 3.2-mile Mulsanne Straight, the cars reach a maximum speed in excess of 230 miles per hour.

- The first race was run in 1923. The lap record was nine minutes 39 seconds. The average speed, 66.69 miles per hour.

- Last year, the lap record was three minutes 22 seconds. The average speed, 145.508 miles per hour.

- The race is open to six classes of cars. From the smallest production models to the largest sports prototype engines. All competing at the same time on the same circuit.

- There are 55 cars and 110 drivers representing countries from all over the world.

- They will drive day and night, through sun and rain.

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