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In June the ACO celebrated the 90th anniversary of the first 24 Hours of Le Mans that was held in 1923.  At each of the FIA World Endurance Championship events there has been a special presentation to the oldest surviving competitor in each of the nations we visit and presentations have been made in England, Belgium, France and Brazil.  In Austin it was the turn of the American drivers, with 93 year old Richard Thompson receiving an entry into the 24 Heures du Man Hall of Fame.  Unfortunately Richard, also known as the 'Flying Dentist', was unable to travel from Florida to Texas but a video presentation was shown to the assembled guests. In addition Corvette acrried a special panel on the back of its cars taking part in Saturday's American Le Mans Series race with the names of all of the 307 American drivers who have competed at Le Mans in the last 90 years.  For more information visit the ACO website HERE Image taken on a Fuji X100 ...

One of my duties as the Photo Delegate for the 24 Hours of Le Mans is to assist in the setting of the cars for the traditional group photograph on the grid ahead of the official test.  With Eric Gilbert, the official photographer, high above the track in a 'Cherry Picker' it was my job to co-ordinate by radio the placing of the cars on the grid, which numbered 35 out of the 56 cars entered for the race.  It took around 45-minutes to get all the cars into position and the resulting shot was worth all the effort. Here are some of the images I took of the grid full of cars from ground level along with the official shot from above the track by Eric Gilbert of motorsport.com. The impressive grid of 35 cars out of a total of 56 taking part in the 2013 24 Heures du Mans   The group photo drew the attentions of the press corps gathered at Le Mans The official image taken by Eric Gilbert / motorsport.com - COPYRIGHT ACO / 24-lemans.com Pushing the cars back to...