Automobile Club de l'Ouest

And that, for me, is going to be an intriguing part of it.

What, as the ACO or as the LMEM, do you do about that?

Well, that was going to be one of the questions I was going to ask in the fallout of Portimao, was we've had a trickle, haven't we, of some of the major teams announcing which manufacturer they're intending to race with when the new gen cars debut.

Do you get the sense that everyone's made that decision, or do you think there are still some key teams waiting to see the cars contract before then? I think we're pretty

They are going to be.

But after the disaster they had with Iron Links, the Huracan fell out of...

ACO World Racing.

But we've got the Asia Le Mans series coming up the week after the season finale for the WEC.

And of course, you know, it took over from GTE.

At Le Mans in WEC and the ACO's associate series, like the ELMS series.

And, of course, IMSA became the crown class in IMSA this decade.

So it's just sort of grown and grown and grown.

There were rumors that, uh, Le Mans was gonna leave the WEC calendar.

Um, all over the, um, internet and the motorsport racing world, uh, there was rumors that the FIA and the ACO, um, the Automobile Club de l'Ouest, um, hadn't actually come to an agreement regarding how Le Mans would continue.

So rumors all around the internet were like, "Yep, this is done.

You're never gonna see Le Mans again.

On the dyno, the speedometer read three hundred and eighty one kilometers an hour.

In June 2023, during the centenary running of the Le Mans 24 Hours, the Automobile Club de l'Ouest gave them 40 minutes on the circuit.

Down the Mulsanne Straight, the Multipla ran a shade under a hundred and eighty two miles an hour and dropped a seven hundred and fifty horsepower Porsche on the first acceleration out of the pits.

Five months after that, in a hall at Milano Autoclassica, Stellantis Heritage pulled the cover off a one-off.