Hi Gator,
I live up in Cincy and like you have been going to the Petit and Sebring since the late ninties. I've been to Le Mans six times with some British friends who live both here and abroad. As Phil said I would be heading there sooner rather than later, the airfare has become terribly expensive (enough to stop me from going for the past couple of years) and the dollar is taking a pretty good pasting against the Euro and Pound. You'll enjoy Le Mans, very cosmopolitan and evocative atmosphere, some superb eating and drinking to be done. I will warn you though, don't expect the same sort of spectating we get at Road Atlanta or Sebring (or my home circut Mid-Ohio). The paying public are placed a hell of a long way from the action at Le Mans, usually having to look over a cement wall, paddock admission is not available without media or competitor creds and the facilites can be character building to say the least.
Fax