• The day and night practices will take place on Friday, from 15:00 onwards.
• The extension of the sixth grid deadline is from 1978 to 1979, opening the track to the Ferrari BBLMs and the BMW M1s.
• The circuit brand new infrastructures

Except these three major changes, the 2006 Le Mans Classic will carry on as its predecessors:

• A race succession (400 cars) lasting 24 hours Racing in turn for 24 hours, each grid for three rounds.
• A huge Club gathering with 5,000 cars expected
• A "Le Mans Heritage Club" reserved for 24 "Le Mans" chassis not racing. They benefit from a concours
• An auction, always run by Christie's
• A village dedicated to Automobile benefiting from the new Bugatti facilities
• An open air Trade Fair where car manufacturers compete with each other to launch their new luxury sporting brand.
• Original shows for instance a flight over the circuit aboard a helicopter, or a discovery track lap aboard a historic bus.

A meeting will take place Friday 7th July 2006. The day testing is from 15.00 and is followed by the night testing until 1.00am.