On June 16-17 the Circuit de la Sarthe, on the outskirts of the French town of Le Mans, will host sports car racing's most famous event. In April, it hosted the two-wheeled equivalent. ESPN was invited to spend that race stationed inside the operation of Honda's factory team, providing a perfect view of the resolve required for a race operation to complete 1,440 minutes of racing.
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It had been dark for a couple of hours when the garage next to Honda's suddenly burst into life, as each of the separate openings of the Le Mans pit-lane would do at various interludes throughout the event.