Nearly a year ago, TEMPISH had an idea to try to attack the highest levels in the world's most famous 24-hour race, in Le Mans, France. Putting a ten-member team into the prestige category has proven to be a difficult task. We had to change the set we had done 3 months before the start of the race several times. The dozens of brave ones were - Ondra Suchý, Martin Labuz, Rosťa Švrček, Kamil Hastík, Tomáš Ptáčník, Vojta Pospišilík, Ondra Pyszko, Dušan Čičmanec, Rafal Gawel and Mateusz Sologa.

The whole team arrived in France on Friday and on Saturday morning it was already ready for the race circuit. The skybox base was great and everything was ready as it was supposed to be.

After a tour of the circuit, Ondra Suchý took on a 300m long sprint, which determines the position of the racer at the start. In this sprint, he took the 4th place out of 370 racers and the starting position was great. It was almost impossible to see how quickly some of the contestants managed to put their skates on after the starting shot and set off on the track. The fastest ones managed it in about 4 seconds.

Immediately after the two opening rounds, we were in the fourth position with a loss of about 35 seconds. The tactic was clear, we switched one round in which we left our maximum. We wanted to ride a 4.2 km long track under 7 minutes, which we did. Ondra Suchý even managed to race the lap for 6:16 and Tom Ptáčník for 6:19, the other guys all around 6:35. Despite these times, however, the first three teams managed to move away.
The winning team, composed mainly of the French representation team, managed to ride over 900km in 24h. Our TEMPISH team managed 845km, which would be enough to win last year. This year was different and the competition was huge. All the boys from the team left their maximum in every round on the track. In spite of that, it was only enough for the "fourth place" in the category and fifth overall in all categories, but after the race, the team was disappointed because we were all thinking about the winning positions, however we were happy to survive this extremely demanding race in the heat and to finally be in the first five in such a competition is a beautiful result!

A huge thank you to all of our support, who did a great job and without which it would not work! Zdeňa Sauer, Martin Marsin, David Superata, Vláďa Kyas, Tomáš Pitrun and last but not least Tomáš Hromádka and his wife Věra. The support was great, the food was excellent and the people in the whole team were absolutely amazing!!! It was a very strong experience that will not be forgotten and I hope we will return to Le Mans again.