Pity those of us who've stayed on Beausejour. The ratio of showers/toilet blocks to the number of campers is unhealthily low.

My first Le Mans as well. Something I'll always remember fondly and with great pleasure.

In other words, they have no idea how much space they'll have available, so they've picked a number. I wouldn't be surprised if any spaces left end up being sold on the gate or at the ticket office just before and during race week. I have to stop by the ticket office when I arrive in June anyway, so might well ask if they've any MB space available still.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/117273

Another old-timer has left us.

RIP.

PM sent.

A thought for folk going across early. I'd suggest that if you're arriving at Caen either right before or just after June 6 then be prepared for major traffic delays, road closures, greater security at Customs and immigration and so on. Given the high-level guest list, the Caen area is likely to be crawling with bodyguards, anti-terrorist teams and suchlike.

If you're lucky they might have the live sex show at the pervy tent in the village.

If they banned the hybrids and only allowed cars that sounded like racing cars, as opposed to the bastard children of a back-alley orgy between some electric egg whisks and a particularly horny milk float then I'd be all for that.

The hybrids are an engineering marvel, granted, but they don't have the sound of the 1958 Lister-Jaguar.

I can order tickets from the ACO. Where do I collect them from and could I collect them at the weekend as I'd be arriving on either the 6th or 7th of June.

Is it possible to buy a camping permit at the gate on arrival? I'd heard that BSJ always has a few available.

Love the Lanc, but I'm more of a P38 Lightning or Mosquito man, personally.

James Hunt's lifestyle, communicated through the medium of song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Wd-Q3F8KM

Afternoon all.

I run a blog as an informal kind of shop window (I'm a freelance scribbler) and I was thinking of a blog post regarding the annual ticket lottery run by the ACO. We've been putting up with it for years now. You order a dozen camping permits on the same site, probably your favourite site that you use every year, and hope to get them as a block. What you'll probably get is either the wrong number of permits, all the permits on the same site but scattered all over it, permits for the wrong campsite entirely or, worst of all, you'll get the right number of permits and they'll be spread across different sites so you don't even end up on the same campsite never mind with a single block of pitches.

I'm not sure if this'll go down well with the ACO, but if anybody's prepared to share their horror stories with me then feel free to send me a PM or put them on the thread. If you fancy being either completely anonymous or using an alias other than your username that's no problem and I'd be quite happy not to mention CA at all if that would be a problem.

Hope this doesn't ruffle any feathers at CA HQ, but I think it's something worth addressing. All the best.

http://www.sportscardigest.com/knobbly-lister-jaguar-returns-to-production/?fb_source=pubv1

Yes, my brethren. The giant-killing, fire-breathing, trouser-bustingly scary 'Knobbly' will be available to ordinary road users.

I want one...

The first time I saw the DW I thought somebody had already crashed it.

I'm not keen on the diesel-electric hybrids either. They don't like proper racing cars so much as the bastard child of some ghastly backstreet quickie between a lawnmower and an eggwhisk.