The first half of the race. Commentary from Jonny Palmer and Peter Snowdon.

There was no official winner declared in those early days, it was a car’s performance over three consecutive years which counted, and the original racetrack was more like a gravel rally stage than a race circuit.

You can hear why a last minute change of heart by W.O. Bentley changed the course of his eponymous brand forever.

Their challenge is to choose any car, any driver and any circuit layout since 1923. The difficult bit is that they each need to be from a different era!

Race 1 commentary from Jonny Palmer and Bruce Jones with Joe Bradley in the pits

Race 2 commentary from Richard Craill and Jonny Mowlem, with Joe Bradley in the pits

Jonny Palmer and John Hindhaugh open the week’s live broadcasting with features and previews.

Ian James talks about his late entry in this year’s race, Richard Dean and Phil Hanson preview the competition in LMP2 and John Hindhaugh talks to Chris Sagemueller from AMG Mercedes about the Crowdstrike F1 safety car.

Plus producing tyres for NASCAR’s Garage 56 entry and Ben Keating on GTE

Thursday

Jonny Palmer and Paul Truswell look back at Wednesday’s action and discuss what can be interpreted from the lap times so far.

Colin Braun talks about his return to Le Mans with Crowdstrike, 16 years after his debut; Kamui Kobayashi reveals his NASCAR ambition and Racecar Engineering’s Andrew Cotton looks ahead to what he thinks will happen in the race.

Saturday

John Hindhaugh and Nick Daman host the final Lunchtime at Le Mans as the build-up to the race continues. Nick reveals how pit garage allocations could affect the outcome of the race.

Plus more Le Mans memories from Andrew Marriott, Stefan Wendl from AMG Mercedes Customer Racing on their partnership with Crowdstrike, and a look at the 2024 calendars for the FIA World Endurance Championship and Asian Le Mans Series.

The 2022 GT4 Champions from British GT will be campaigning an Audi R8 LMS Evo 2 in ACO competition in 2023 whilst raising funds and awareness for Sir Jackie Stewart’s “Race against Dementia” charity.

Hear what is expected from this new challenge as John chats to Team Manager Max Daymond, drivers Sennan Fielding and James Wood and Team Principle Gary Blackham.