French football great Zinedine Zidane acted as starter to get the mythic Le Mans 24 Hour race on its way at 1400GMT on Saturday.Zidane was wearing winter gear as he waved the ceremonial starter's flag - a French Tricolor with '24' embossed in gold on it - handed to him by French soldiers who had abseiled down with it from a hovering helicopter.
Coming into motorsports from the worlds of business head-hunting and even dog grooming, women will make their presence felt at the iconic Le Mans 24 Hour Race which gets underway on Saturday.Then, tired of office life, she started a dog grooming business.Â
More than 100,000 British fans are expected to make their annual pilgrimage to the Le Mans 24 hours this year, though they would be forgiven for thinking they had mistakenly stumbled upon the French Grand Prix.