24H of Le Mans
Jean Todt: “At Peugeot, I learned how to build a team”
Jean Todt, stopwatches in hand, on the Peugeot pit wall © McKlein
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What do the 24 Hours of Le Mans mean to you?
It's a legendary race, quite simply. I used to go to the Montlhéry circuit to watch the competitions, but the first big event I wanted to go to was the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Before experiencing them as director of Peugeot Talbot Sport between 1981 and 1993, two significant encounters come to mind. When I was a teenager, in the 1960s, I went to the bookstore at the Champs-Élysées drugstore with my friend Jean-Claude Lefebvre (former driver who became head of communications at Peugeot Sport between 1983 and 2010, then assistant to Jean Todt at the FIA from 2011 to 2013
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