anyone going to lemans 24hr this year
24hr racing +beer+nutters in cars = mad weekend :thumb:

Certainly am. Just talking about this very topic at work today. Was just organising the on-calls rotas such that I'm not on for that weekend.

Fantastic last year, wee bit warm. Our group needs to get organised and get the tickets booked soon !

Three days into 2006 and where talking about Le mans(can't wait) i'am
going with two others,booked back in July"God i hope its cooler than
last year!!!:thumb:

Yay! Me too! :D

Going for the first time this year. Me and a mate in my WRX and a mate from work and his wife in their Elise. The plan (http://www.giveitfish.co.uk/lemans/) is to go via Poole on the way out and Caen on the way back, travelling out on the Wednesday night so we can see practice, drivers parade etc before the race.

Camping in Karting Nord - don't seem to hear much about this on other websites, so I hope it's OK....

Where/when are you guys crossing, I'll keep an eye out while letching at all the nice cars

Steve

Just talking about the trip again with a colleage 2 mins ago.
We're talking about crossing on Thursday morning (Tunnel) hopefully getting down there around 6pm or so, have a few beers and make it to watch practice / qualifying, although this all depends on the nightmare traffic around Rouen (or last year it was a complete mare)

Hopefully we'll be in Dunlop grandstand again, and this year travelling down in a Tiv Chimera 500 and not my Saab Aero (aka "The large barge")

DEFINITELY!
broke my cherry last year, was fecking amazing.... SOOO hot though!
Went Portsmouth - Caen last year, probably do the same again. Not doing sodding night crossing though, sleeping on the floor under a seat sucks!

Nice drive once you get into France though. Racing and crazing overtaking aplenty!
Watch out for the plod though, saw em hiding in trees with a speed gun at one point!


www.beermountain.com is a good source of info for the various campsites, how to get there etc.
My advice - take a GPS!

we stayed in BeauseJour last year... bit further out than most campsites but i really liked it... Better than some of the concrete / dust bowls there are around... Might take a push-bike with me this year though! :)

There arent a massive number of scoobys about down there actually. my WRX was getting more looks than the VERY common Porsches and Ferraris! :D :D


I CANT WAIT!
and i hope its just a couple of degrees cooler this time round!

chris

this year will be my 4th time .first time i went me and a mate in his elise( tent ,duty free beer and 2 big water guns = one ramed full elise) totally mad weekend.
i've only stayed on hoax annexe ( near the mad round about) and the same this year.i'm leaving wednesday afternoon for 10pm dover crossing and then the mad drive down there ( always reminds me of a gumball type drive down)
this time there should be 2 car loads of us going but it's early days yet.
i think a scoobynet meet up and a few beers is in order :thumb:

Like the idea of a Scoobynet meet any body else fancy that?:thumb:

Meeee

Oh forgot I am goin in your car. I will have to get used to that lack of torque !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You will have to get the onboard computer disengaged mate !!!!!

1 st time for me this year, going over the 14th for 5 days, cant wait....

1 st time for me this year, going over the 14th for 5 days, cant wait....

Nice one, you'll love it!
Good day to go over i reckon too. Went over on the Thursday last time. Makes a bit harder to get a camping space that way.. So im going to go on Weds this time too...

What campsite ?

We are staying on a campsite further away from the circuit this year. Stayed on Maison blanche last year and wasn't that impressed. Got there on the Friday and some had more space for their swimming pools than we had for three tents. Then the facilities were naff. cueing up for over an hour to have a dump and showers that literally trickled cold water in 1,000,000 degrees outside temperature stretched the sense of humour.

Further more, nearly got into a fight with one of the french shower attendants who tried pushing in front of me in the one shower section that had more than a trickle. Again after cueing there for an hour, there was no way he was going to jump the cue. It was great to be supported by all the other chaps in the cue (not !!)

booked this year through:

http://www.clubmotorsport.org.uk/24carpackage.html

Looking forward to it. My fourth year also.

Nice one, you'll love it!
Good day to go over i reckon too. Went over on the Thursday last time. Makes a bit harder to get a camping space that way.. So im going to go on Weds this time too...

What campsite ?

I am staying in a hotel the first 2 nights ( I no its a cop out :-) then headin to the track Sat for 26 hours then back to the hotel for 1 more night, I wanted to camp but was out voted......

This will be my 3rd trip to le-mans , I have always gone with a mate who is a porsche club member last year porsche had there own campsite on the porsche curves:freak3: anyway another 5 days of drinking red wine (try keeping beer cold without a fridge:razz: ) getting sunburn ,eating total crap and queing for a shower , all good fun:D
Having a cold one sat outside a cafe in the main street at arnarge is something to behold talk about ££££££ worth of cars:eek:
Have a good one:thumb:

hotel! that IS a cop-out!! :D
i like camping personally, lying down on sunday morning at about 5am trying to get a couple of hours sleep listening to the cars zipping round all night is great fun... its nice to be in the thick of it - soak up the atmosphere! :)

BeasuJeour is near Porsche Curves. Its a really great spot to see the cars at night.
If you go back down the road and under the bridge you can follow the track along a bit then cross this big field, and get right up to the track....
saw some people from Porsche Curves on the other side and thought 'how did they get there'.
It was a right laugh, SAS style! :) I was quite drunk though, and we got caught by the marshalls, they didnt really care that much tho...

cant wait. :thumb:

Meeee

Oh forgot I am goin in your car. I will have to get used to that lack of torque !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You will have to get the onboard computer disengaged mate !!!!!

You don't learn do you?? Have you forgotten Mr Incredible's missus (AKA the onboard computer!!) reads Scoobynet!! :iamwithst Don't worry I'll be getting plenty of :sleep: on route this time around!!

Ooops. Me and my big mouth !!!!!

You're looking nice today Nic, have you had your hair done (creep creep) ??!!!!

got tickets and ferry sorted ready to go cant wait:luxhello:

I had forgot about my trip and this just reminded me, cant wait.....

Here's a thought - does anyone know if it'd be worth cruising by Prodrive and Aston's Gaydon plant on the Monday after the race, as they're both just off the M40? Any ideas on how to look around inside either of these places?

Might liven up the drive home!

Steve

Think i will be catchin up with sleep by then :-)

We should try and meet up for a beer over the weekend, managed to meet up with a couple of S/netters last year in Finland (WRC event).

i'll be one of the nutter running around the hoax annexe roundabout friday night with super soaker so i'll be up for a beer

i'll be one of the nutter running around the hoax annexe roundabout friday night with super soaker so i'll be up for a beer

As this is my 1st trip there can a Le mans veteran think of a decent bar/place 4 a meet....?

i'll be one of the nutter running around the hoax annexe roundabout friday night with super soaker
What happens on a friday night then ?

i think this should give you an idea about friday night at the roundabout
but stuff like this goes on all round the track
(sorry if these's dont work )


http://www.pistonheads.tv/video.asp?id=396&nr=1

http://www.pistonheads.tv/video.asp?id=422&nr=1
:luxhello:

PMSL, was that sherpa van on fire !!!???? That could get a bit messy if some one lost control !!!

yes could get very messy funny thing is just down the road from the roundabout was about 20 copers just watching

Me and mrs poo2y have just got confirmation of tickets and ferries :luxhello: :luxhello: :luxhello: stopping on beausejour from the 12th .This will be our 2nd , had such a ball last year :thumb: We've learnt by our mistakes and will be travelling light and buying most things when we get there , big paddling pool and hosepipe top of the list followed by beer beer and more beer .

what no super soaker:thumb:

what no super soaker:thumb:

while surfin the net i had a look at some of the new generation water guns, im 30 now and they are mental compared to the ones i had as a kid !!!! Some were that huuuugggggeeee they looked like they could take cars out as well as people