Le Mans Classic
Le Mans Classic takes place Jul 1 - 4, 2027 in Le Mans, France. The dress code is Casual and weather-ready, with plenty of attendees in period dress. Layers for genuinely cold nights, sun protection for the day and sturdy shoes for a site you will walk several kilometres of. Typical cost ranges from 400 to 1800 EUR per person.
Grids of historic sports and racing cars from the 1920s to the 1990s race the full 13.6km Circuit de la Sarthe in period classes, running in rotation right through the night. Alongside the track there are enormous car-club paddocks, a major auction and a vintage village. Hearing a pre-war Bentley at full noise down the Mulsanne at 4am is the reason people keep coming back.
- When
- Jul 1 - 4, 2027
- Where
- Le Mans, France
- Dress code
- Casual and weather-ready, with plenty of attendees in period dress. Layers for genuinely cold nights, sun protection for the day and sturdy shoes for a site you will walk several kilometres of.
- Cost
- Typical cost ranges from 400 to 1800 EUR per person.
- Weather
- 18 - 27C by day, dropping to 10 - 14C overnight; layers are essential for the round-the-clock racing
- When to book
- Tickets, grandstands and camping open in the autumn; Le Mans hotels are booked out close to a year ahead, so consider Tours or Angers plus a train, or take a camping pitch
- Getting there
- CDG (Paris Charles de Gaulle), 2 hr to Le Mans by TGV via Montparnasse; NTE (Nantes) is 1 hr 45 min by road
- Where to stay
- Le Mans Country Club, Yvre-l'Eveque, Hotel Concordia, Le Mans, Novotel Le Mans Centre Gare
- Official site
- https://www.lemansclassic.com
How to attend
General-admission weekend passes, single-day tickets, grandstand seats and on-site camping all sell through lemansclassic.com, typically opening the previous autumn. It is fully open to the public and general admission covers vast trackside areas plus the club paddocks. Camping is the sensible choice given the overnight racing; otherwise arrive by car or take the TGV to Le Mans and use the tram plus shuttle.
Insider tip
The 3am to 5am window is the entire point - pre-war and 1950s grids running under headlights down the Mulsanne with the crowd thinned out. Bring a head torch, a folding chair and a flask, and set up on the banking near the Dunlop bridge.
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