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Mécénat Chirurgie Cardiaque has been involved in the famous car race since 2009! Thanks to the Automobile Club de l'Ouest and the mobilization of our partners, 167 children with heart malformations from underprivileged countries have been operated on thanks to our fund-raising activities during the event.
24 Hours of Le Mans

Key figures

  • 167

    children saved since 2009

  • 22

    children saved in 2025

  • 17 years old

    partnership

Le Mans 24 Hours 2026

- June 13 and 14, 2026

- 24 Hours of Le Mans circuit

 

GOAL: SAVE 24 CHILDREN

How to save children during the race?

24H for Kids with partners

Mécénat Chirurgie Cardiaque offers 24 Heures du Mans partners the chance to activate their hospitality facilities.

Our solidarity stand

The public can make a donation by sticking a "heart stick" on the Safety Car displayed on our stand.

Collector shopping bags for sale in Carrefour stores

To mark the 24 Hours of Le Mans race, Carrefour stores are selling collector's edition shopping bags to raise money for children with heart conditions.

The official ACO stores

The official bob is partly resold in the Association's stores.

A call for generosity relayed on television

TV visibility and appeals for donations are made live several times during the race, thanks to Fondaction L'Équipe.

The fan wall

The ACO offers its members the opportunity to save even more children.
Pines

24H for Kids with partners

We invited the partners of the 24 Heures du Mans to offer their guests a pin symbolizing a heartbeat in exchange for a donation. The Automobile Club de l'Ouest, WEC, MMA, TotalEnergies, Ouest France and Le Maine Libre and many others joined the movement and financed the operations of several children with heart attacks.

Safety Car

Our solidarity stand

We're lucky enough to be present on the circuit, in the heart of the village, with a sales and entertainment stand whose structure, dressing and furniture are donated by our partners iEvent, Structura, Graphi Concepts, Fabrice Labbé, Ability and Camerus.

On site, our super team of volunteers offered the public the chance to make a donation, symbolized by a "stick'heart", to be stuck on the authentic Safety Car on display at our stand! By the end of the race, the Safety Car had been completely covered with 4,000 stickers and had become the Safety Cœur, enabling us to raise funds to save a child's life.

Carrefour shopping bags

Collector shopping bags for sale in Carrefour stores

Since 2011, Carrefour stores in the Manche and Centre regions have been supporting children with heart problems. More than 50,000 shopping bags in the colors of the Le Mans 24 Hours are on sale for €2.60 in 23 stores.

Thanks to the mobilization of the teams who relayed the operation to customers, the sale of shopping bags enabled us to save 8 children from heart attacks in 2025! That's 70 children over the past 15 years.

24 Hours of Le Mans cap

The official ACO stores

Every year, the official ACO stores, both online and in the village, offer visitors the chance to purchase THE charity product in aid of children with heart conditions, which this year is an official bucket hat in the colors of the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

40% of the €25 sale price of the official bobsleigh is donated to the Association!

L'Équipe

A call for generosity relayed on television

To help children's hearts beat faster, Fondaction L'Équipe and Groupe L'Équipe have joined forces with Mécénat Chirurgie Cardiaque , broadcasting live throughout the race on the channel and daily newspaper of the same name.

 

Live from the Association's stand, they invite viewers to make an online donation to help us achieve our goal of saving as many children's hearts as possible.

24 Hours of Le Mans cap

The fan wall

Every member of the Automobile Club de l'Ouest can reserve a plaque in his or her own name and affix it to the Fans' Wall behind the Georges Duran Grandstand. For each plaque sold, a donation is made to the Association!

Our "Team of the Heart

Since its creation, Olivier Panis' VDS Panis Racing team has worn the colors of Mécénat Chirurgie Cardiaque. The association benefits from the support of the "Team du Cœur" to publicize its cause and raise funds.

On June 6, during the traditional weigh-in at Place de la République, the three drivers Franck Perera, Esteban Masson and Olivier Gray proudly displayed the banner "Together, let's save children". As every year, the Mécénat Chirurgie Cardiaque logo appeared on car #48.

Panis Racing

Thanks to our loyal partners