Force India driver Nico Hulkenberg wasted no time after the Canadian grand prix as he looked ahead to his next race outing, and watching with interest in France will be his boss Vijay Mallya.
The German is completing the ultra-rare feat in 2015 of combining a full-time F1 seat with a programme to contest the fabled Le Mans 24 hours.
From the Le Mans pitlane on Tuesday, Hulkenberg posted on Twitter a 'selfie' with his Porsche prototype and the caption "She's ready!"
An interested spectator at Le Mans this weekend will be Hulkenberg's Force India boss Mallya, who will be trackside in a motor home, Auto Motor und Sport reports.
"Vijay said he would only release me for the race if he could come and watch," Hulkenberg joked.
Fernando Alonso also wanted to combine F1 with Le Mans this year, but McLaren-Honda was not as keen as Mallya to allow it to happen. The Spaniard, who watched the race last year, was reportedly disappointed.
"The technology is very high," he said. "You can do two stints on one set of tyres, with the laptimes going up by more than a second. "We only dream about that in formula one."
The very fact that the likes of Hulkenberg, Alonso and full-time Porsche driver Mark Webber rate Le Mans so highly is an indictment of the state of F1 at present.
The Canadian grand prix was condemned by the international media, with not even the usually-customary safety car spicing up the racing action.
"Some would say they (the drivers) weren't pushing hard enough to crash but that's too harsh," former F1 driver turned commentator for British television Sky said.
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