24 Heures du Mans 2007" Web Application • ONEIGHTURBO at ONEIGHTURBO

This is like a dream come true. As a designer/art director/racing enthusiast, this is the epitome of greatness! Thomas Baekdal is an amazing thinker, creative and visionary.

When I say a dream come true I mean it in a way that this is where/what I want to be doing in my career today. Taking all the above interest and combining it into a product that I see is needed out there in the online world.

Everything is in place and it takes people like Baekdal to execute on them. Yes, I could have attempted this but he is so more advanced

I am not that particular interested in sport. I mean, I like sailing and skiing which I do when I got time for it. But there is one thing that has always intrigued me – the 24 hour endurance race “Le Mans”.

I watch Le Mans every single year – and not only occasionally during the day – no, I watch 24 hours of Le Mans. I know how this sounds, every single woman in the world now thinks I am a geek – but who cares, it’s Le Mans, it doesn’t have to make sense.
What does this have to do with this website?

When you put so much effort into a single task, you want to have great tools to work with – and the Le Mans website isn’t one of them. So, for the last 6 years I have been making a web application to solve my need for information.

I wanted a single and usable location to get:

* Live News
* The exact le Mans time
* Lap times
* Lap position
* Race events
* Picture, web cams
* Background information

I want to know more than the TV commenter’s – or at the very least – just as much. When they says; “I think that is the leading Audi with a punctured tire”, I can say “No, on my screen it clearly says that it is the second one with McNish in it”.

…and this is how it looks: