S.A.S Princesse Charlène de Monaco will give the Start for the 24 Heures du Mans 2019

The Automobile Club de l'Ouest has the immense honor of announcing the identity of this year's edition of Le Mans 24 Hours Starter: Princess Charlene of Monaco.

The 24 Hours of Le Mans 2019 will be exceptional: Super Final of the 2018-2019 Season, they will mark the apotheosis of the FIA ​​World Endurance Championship. To give the start of this 87th and historic edition, One starter, Her Serene Highness Princess Charlene of Monaco. Top-level sportswoman, swimming champion, actress involved in the Monaco Grand Prix, the Princess enjoys competition and motor racing. Human and technological performance, physical and mental are all defining criteria and crucial values ​​that make sense for S.A.S Princess Charlene of Monaco and ACO.

Between the Principality of Monaco and Le Mans, Princess Charlene of Monaco will embody the relay between these high places of motor racing, theater of achievements and progress.

Pierre Fillon, President of the Automobile Club de l'Ouest: "We are delighted and proud to announce that HSH Princess Charlene of Monaco has accepted to be the starter of the 24 Hours of Le Mans 2019. Her personality symbolizes the major role that women have to lead in motor sports and in society. At the Automobile Club de l'Ouest, our history and our present bear witness to our desire to make these disciplines and their professions accessible to women. This is not an obligation, nor is it to apply quotas, but rather to broaden and concretize the scope of possibilities for women. The ACO does not only want to allow them the right to dream, but rather the right to do, to practice, to fulfill their desires, their passion. "

HSH Princess Charlene of Monaco will be the starter of the 87th edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, one of her 62 crews, a women's trio, hired by Kessel Racing, in the LM GTE AM category, composed of Rahel Frey, Manuela Gostner and Michelle Gatting.