Le Mans 24 Hours: Danger, beauty & hydrocarbon - why the race is more important than you realise
Engine overrun - a sound created when droplets of fuel escape on to red-hot exhaust pipes.
About 300,000 people flock to north-west France for this annual Glastonbury for petrolheads, with the hardest core collecting around the Dunlop Curve to watch the action. "These new regulations permit car manufacturers to have freedom of design and now we have fantastic cars," says World Endurance Championship CEO Frederic Lequien.
But this revival - which saw the race sold out two weeks after going on sale - is led by Ferrari, who have returned to Le Mans after 50 years away, adding to their already exhaustive F1 schedule.
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