Toyota vs Audi is set to be the duel all attention is focused on at Le Mans this year. Audi has its illustrious history, but Toyota has returned to endurance racing with great promise. The Audis have qualified on pole, but the Toyotas are believed to have greater ranges. How it will play out over a day of racing will be fascinating. But who better to give a view on the weekend than Allan McNish? Twice a Le Mans winner, he is also in the rare position of having driven for Toyota, Porsche and Audi at La Sarthe.
How do you win at Le Mans? Ask McNish...
Today's Time for Tea? [we're late, it's Friday so by all means make it a beer instead! - Ed.]features McNish in an episode of The Racer's Edge, produced with our colleagues at F1 Racing. Well, it comes under Time for Tea?, but at 51 minutes long it might be worth sitting down with the first of the weekend's drinks instead...
Having said that, it's certainly worth taking in as much as possible. Peter Windsor conducts the interview well, clearly knowledgeable and letting McNish speak for the majority of the time. The latter's honesty on his ill-fated Toyota F1 career is refreshing and his insight on endurance testing is certainly worth paying attention to. McNish's appreciation of being mentored by Jackie Stewart is very sincere as well, and certainly a stage in his career we knew little about.
And there's a game to play whilst watching the video also; it's called 'guess the Audi Allan McNish is driving'. Given the tacho reads to 9 and the mirrors are chromed, we'll go RS5...