Q&A: Hugh Chamberlain.

The Le Mans timetable means that Friday is a day with no track activity, giving the teams the opportunity to prepare their cars for tomorrow's race. Running the two MG Sport and Racing cars is the CMS team - led by the hugely experienced Hugh Chamberlain. As the drivers rested and the crews worked on the cars - we asked Hugh for his thoughts:

Hugh, how is Le Mans going for Le Mans this year?

Hugh Chamberlain: "It's going well. We had a few hiccups with a couple of things that happened n practice, particularly Mark, when he was on a flier, got knocked off a couple of times. We're sixth and twelfth, we'd have liked to have had one and two, but you have to be realistic and we're one-two in the category and by a long way. So yes, it's not going too badly."

You've been to Le Mans many times before, and know that anything and everything can happen in the race, do you try to cover every eventuality in your preparation."

HC: "That's what we try to do, but what we need is someone who can predict what will happen!

"It's one of those things, you can change a million things, have a huge amount of back-up, and a threpenny bit part will break and stops you on the circuit. You make your own luck and but try to work out in advance what might go wrong and try to put it right beforehand, which is what we are doing."

So what do you actually do the cars between qualifying and the start of the race at 4pm on Saturday?

HC: "Make sure everything is nailed together! It's as simple as that."

Everyone perceives this race as a test of endurance for car and driver, but it obviously is just as hard for everyone in the pit.

HC: "It's terribly boring in the garage! The drivers are going round and round and all you can do is be woken up every three and a half minutes to be reminded they are still going round!

"No, there's an awful lot of work to be done and of course there is 45 minutes doing nothing except working out what might happen, and then suddenly all mayhem lets lose when a driver comes in and want more fuel. We give him the fuel, some tyres - and send him on his way again. It's a lot of activity for a very short period of time and then nothing for another 45-50 minutes."