This has to be the best quote about how hard it is to talk someone into sponsoring your race team:

"Another Japanese firm who want to remain nameless were talking about the arrival of a new (also Japanese) manufacturer at Le Mans and how they have been trying to get the deal to build and run the works cars, "it has been like meeting a beautiful woman, and trying to seduce her, you take her for dinner but she just smiles and you get no where near the bedroom, she teases you but you still want to take her to dinner again, well we have had a lot of dinners with her and now we are at the bedroom door"

from http://www.mulsannescorner.com/news.html

 

Interesting, seems like I will have to go to France next year too
BUtseeing how slow the Mazda is, compared to the competetion, I'm hoping for a 4Rotor again

 

They should just let a French team run the car and the Lemans organizers will create a class for it. Then they will add 1000lbs and cut the fuel cell volume of everybody else so the "French" team can win. Problem solved.