Backed by Silk Cut Jaguar the station quickly found favour with the tens of thousands of English-speaking fans at the race.
The early years provided for only a very rudimentary service, no pit reports and a music loop played overnight.
Resident statistician Paul Truswell, famed for not only remaining standing at his microphone throughout the 24 hours (and more) but also not urinating during this entire time, has been ever-present on the Radio Le Mans commentary team since 1988.
The website radiolemans.com[2] now runs a sports car and automotive audio stream all year which includes live coverage of other races from around the world, including those of the FIA World Endurance Championship, European Le Mans Series, Nurburgring 24 and Britcar 24.
[5] RSL audio was also used as the narrative in the movies "Truth in 24"[6] and the sequel,[7] plus the 2013 Patrick Dempsey documentary which aired on Velocity in the USA[8] in addition to appearing in vision in all of these productions, main presenter/commentator and owner John Hindhaugh[9] provided commentary for the Jota documentary "Journey to Le Mans".
Reflecting this change of branding for the channels, the main portal was switched to www.radio-show.co.uk although the www.RadioLeMans.co[11] domain is still active and RSL retain the licence, granted by the ACO, for the operation of Radio Le Mans on FM at the track.
The team provided full 24-hour race commentary plus live coverage of all the practice and qualifying sessions, the only broadcaster to do so.
The audio was also used for Motors TV's 15 hours of live television coverage, and on Speed.com as its overnight feed when the linear service was off air.
[16] From 2017 onwards, Radio Le Mans will cover the German VLN championship making them the primary and only English commentary for the full series.
As with the American Le Mans Series the coverage was streamed on the internet, and at the Nürburgring and Silverstone it was also available locally on AM or FM frequencies.
That year the race itself stopped for a time during the night as thick fog caused a red flag period.
As motorsport was suspended during the COVID-19 pandemic, Radio Show Limited has produced sim racing broadcasts for IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship and the Nurburgring Endurance Series.