Weatherday: The long motor race.

Rib bone from Fin Whale, at Kilmore Quay (2022).

It's a damp and cloudy start and there will be some heavyish bursts of rain. Clearing in the afternoon to a sunny evening. 

Temperatures up to 17deg in moderate breezes from the west. 

On this day in 1923 the inaugural 24 hours of Le Mans endurance motor race began on public roads around the French town of the same name. The winning car was French, built by Chenard & Walcker.

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