Discover 24 hours flat, the unpublished short story by Emmanuel Villin. Having grown up on the edge of the Bugatti circuit where, every year, sports cars go around in circles for 24 hours in front of thousands of amazed spectators from all over the world, that's to say that I had a difficult childhood.

At Le Mans, everything lasts 24 hours and repeats every year. For my part, I will have lived there 157,680 hours. My oldest automobile memory is that of a sudden brake application which caused the bassinet in which my parents had placed me to waltz and which threw me onto the floor of the family Peugeot 104.