After wishing them best of luck, we head back out and make our way down the paddock to Audi's lower Racing Club and hang out directly above the Audi pits. With the windows wide open, you can stick your head out the and look down on the pit box below and, if there's anything going on, enjoy one of the best up-close views in the house.

Here, I also sign up for a tour of the Audi pit at 9 A.M. the following morning. This is just one of several activities that Audi has for its guests to try at this year's race. Some of the others include a helicopter ride above the track, an Audi driving experience and a kart racing competition, for example.

Next, we head to the Audi Racing Arena for some food, drink and relaxation. Situated just before the Ford Chicane, the Arena boasts 24-hour food stations and drink service, an outdoor patio, DJ, entertainment stage, mini spa, poker table and monitors galore to keep track of everything and then some. This is as close to racing purgatory from a spectators standpoint as you can get as guests are waited on hand and foot and treated to some amazing dishes and hospitality.

There is a huge video screen located in the middle of the building directly across from a multi-tier viewing arena that looks like an avalanche of oversized bean bag chairs and weary travelers waiting to happen.

A collection of scale models of Audi's past and present Le Mans prototypes, race worn helmets and full-size replica of the R18 e-tron quattro are also on display in the Arena. There is even a two-screen setup where guests car drive the virtual R18 on the Circuit de la Sarthe thanks to Forza Motorsport 4 and Xbox 360.

It is still light out but the Ferris wheel is full of revelers enjoying what is arguably the best view at Le Mans as I make my way over to yet another Audi hospitality where I am to meet up with some contacts from Michelin who have promised a tour of the race tire compound and paddock at 8 P.M. Inside the compound, dozens of techs and tire engineers are busy unmounting, mounting, inflating, balancing new tires at multiple work stations for the various teams running on Michelin, one of two tire suppliers here at Le Mans. We'll have more on this in the Fall '13 issue of PRN Ignition. For now, check out this short video ( http://wheelsonedge.com/video/2072/Inside-the-Michelin-Tire-Compound-at-Le-Mans).