today we mainly had our drivers briefing and a meeting with the team crew to teach us how to fix the car in case we have trouble out on the track… so my tuning work with putting the hands on to my Subaru was worth something… Mechanics skills improved… but hopefully not needed off course.

We also had our first media appearance in our big hospi for the journalists to meet us, did a couple interviews for tv and mags. After that we went around the track by bicycle to check out the course and some little modifications to last year. Marcel made sure he stayed powered up with red bull…

We then finished the day with a 1h30 autograph session in front of the pits and a welcome drink invitation from the race organizers.

Tomorrow we get to drive for the first time and we will have a better idea of where we are against the Peugeots…

Mr. Le Mans, aka Tom Kristensen found a new job behind the bar and served me some juice and Alan found his bigger twin brother…

Ben recieved his new night vision glasses…

on a picture from yesterday you can see our present from our big japanese fans, they made us a very nice supporters flag with lots of wishes! Arigato to Japan!

Day 1, arrived well at Le Mans with my S5 on sunday night.

Started the day with greating the hole team, takes a while as we have a LOT of people… Everybody is well prepared with everything, looking good.

The pits look stunning, you can’t see any bit of the wall or construction from the building, its all nicely covered with panels. We even have a built in car lift in the floor for each car, a first for me…

We got the keys for our drivers containers to put all our gear and also sleep  during the race. we took some time to make it all nice and organized but Ben still manged to loose his keys…

Our team hospi is the coolest of the paddock coming straight from F1 with the RED BULL energy station.

After that we made our way to the traditional “place des jacobins” in Le Mans city center where the technical inspection and drivers equipments, license check is done but also where the yearly picture with the hole team and media interviews are held.

Finally, to not feel to remote from my habits… a sushi dinner with my team mates and team members to finish of the day…

After my training camp in Austria I went back to my home town for a great sunny week, lucky with the weather! Nice to get settled and be home a bit before the big highlight of the year comming up next week, the Le Mans 24h!!

I could enjoy and power myself up with outdoor sports every day, alternating rowing with the boat I got from my father and off course, cycling thru the pretty belgian country side….

Also got to catch up with my friends a bit which was nice! We met up in Brussels where the hole town was for some early sunset gathering, very cool!

And while they were working, I was ”working” to… on my Subaru STI… Its my new hobby to get the hands on… I always find some parts on the web to fit into it… this week i updated the air intake, fuel pump and blow off valve with a increased boost program… makes a nice blow off ”pfssssst” sound now…

Off to Le Mans tomorrow… max attack!