Club Arnage

Are they finally arriving.

Mine havent yet

Got the idwea theta

Big H

and Rick Meister / Mr rick .

have there's ?

I believe they are due soon
PM

They are on the way!
A mate  of mine ( I do have just the one!) got his last Saturday and E-mailed a copy just to gloat or whatever.

Pleased to confirm mine arrived last Saturday(ish) and has of course been returned with card details, lest we lose the holy grail that is 3x MB!!!  ;D Sure yours won't be long Robbo - see you on MB!!

What invoices are we talking about? ???

I e-mailed and it was returned.
 'just started to process 2 weeks, not before January'.
I hope it means we get ours :o :o

me too

Mine just (literally) fell onto the doormat (post is always late here in the sticks).

MB here we come!

....that is if I can rustle up 1875 euros 3 weeks before Xmas!!!!

db

So what does this form look like? pics? :)

ACO invoice arrived today for 2910 Euros... nice just before Christmas!!!

Got camping bleu and technoparc (asked for bleu & karting nord)

I orderd by email and got a letter they wil sent it begining 2005, might i get it aswell in DecembeR?

It's an invoice, so it looks a bit like an invoice!!!

DB

Got mine today, seems it sat on the side for a couple of days the wife forgot to tell me :-\ :-\

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Way heeeeyy !!

Ours dropped on to the mat this morning.

1706 euros and Houx Annexe (as requested) here we come.

Many thanks to the lovely ladies in the ACO booking office.

Yippeeeeeee!!!!!!
MB as asked for. Ferry booked, arrive Monday morning. Keep me space brian please and I'll bring the tuesday night bottle this time H.

I'm Still waiting !! ???

When did you order????? bit early to panic just yet though ;)

I orderd a few weeks ago ;D

Beausejour it is for you then Erw :D

What?

Erw>>
Well, the first invoices to come through are for the first people who ordered their camping tickets. They ordered probably before June (during pre-qual). After that the ACO work down the list by ordering date. Last year I ordered at the end of October for Houx Annexe, and ended up at Beausejour. So this year I ordered at the end of June (for Karting Nord 2005). I might be luckier this year, but refuse to believe this untill I get my invoice.
"A few weeks ago" is somewhere end of October, and yes; Beausejour is pretty much what you can expect, I'm afraid.

I only orderd grandstand tickets tough ;D

Got the invoice on Friday, requested and was issued MB, low flyer/german beer pool party on Monday, who`s in?

The WANCs are still to receive.Must be that ive won something in their prize draw and they're waiting to the end to tell me.Probably hospitality package with Aston or something like...oh i know, i know its a lap or two in the new Corvette,yeah that'll be it,i'm gonna be last to know cos i'm special!!!
Bo@@ocks,looks like i'll be on Beausejour Annexe,back field,swamp,frog pond.
PM

I haven't got any yet either...  :-\

me neither  ;D

ERW - you should be OK for some sort of grandstand tickets, although stands 17 thru 21 (the main ones along the pit straight) are sold out.

Which stand did you order?

DB

Maison Blanche stand. They didnt say it was sold out?

Still available according to the paper work sent from the ACO...

I'm still in the waiting, terrified of getting BSJ, queue too! Ordered around late August/early Oct so keep fingers crossed guys. I am still hoping to share hospitality with Steve in Houx Annexe.....  ::)

I ordered six camping places and suddenly friends are turning into frenzied animals to try to grab one off me...
I have five definites to get one each (includes me!) what shall I set as the competition to hive off number six?  ;D ;D

Bill

BSJ sounds like some awful disease dunnit? ;)

Bill,
We've had our confirmed invoice for Houx Annexe so we'll prepare the red carpet for you all  ;D

Got it, Paid it, Houx annexe here we come again. ;D

Never in doubt,the WANCs are on MB again.
PM

Team JPC will be on MB again!!!!   :D :D :D

First of us will be arriving Tuesday morning off the Caen overnighter. Hopefully between Abs and I we'll have enough passes but the number of vehicles in our group is growing as they're all travelling at different times so I may need a couple of extras.

Hopefully Nadine at the LM tourist board will be helpful again!!

I always hear that "The Brits" are bad tourist but i enyoyed my free beer at a tent full of Londeners last year so we might meet  :D

U must be joking. Britain must be nearly deserted by the looks of the amount of Brits at Le Mans ;D

Hurrah
It bounced onto the mat this morning

I sent them an email yesterday to query why I hadnt had an invoice. Apparently it had been sent out on 26 Nov, so it must have become lost in the post. Anyway they emailed me another, so I'm a happy bunny today.  :D

Team zarce going to BSJ  ;D

Oh hell Robbo, what d'ya have to go and say that for, I was just going to follow the commermeister's lead and you stopped me dead

 ;D

Sorry guys, defo on MB.  :D

But was only happy yesterday til the letter from the Taxman turned up which made me feel sick as a parrot.  :(

Getting a little worried about it now, I ordered my tickets on the Tuesday after the race this year, the booking office was closed on the Monday.
I asked for Houx Annex, got stuck in BSJ this year & don't really wanna be there again!! The walk was too much carrying all those beers  ;D

Have most people been getting the tickets they requested??

Recieved our allocation as requested for Bleu and grandstand tickets today 8) 8) 8) 8)

Tickets were applied for on the Thursday before the race ( might have been early Friday,  I was a little tired and emotional all week ;))

Allocation letter to me was postmarked 7/12/04.

Believe that they process in order of receipt, they definatley wrote the date on the top of my form when I handed it over, so they should be getting to yours soon Chris.

They tell me mine was sent on 24/11, but it hasn't arrived yet.

I'll ask them to resend next week. (That will usefully delay the costs hitting the credit card at the wrong time too!)

I don't want to ruin your day (mine has), but I ordered Karting Nord on 29th of June and still end up in fu**ing Beauséjour!!!

Must be because of those redicioulous Norwegians who come with half a country (http://smile.smilies.nl/426.gif)

We will be in our usual spot if any of yuz tarts wanna beer or a fight. :D
ROLF HARRIS ROCKS
Rusty

It's hit and miss with this ticket lark alright.
I didn't place my order till October, and ten days letter I get an invoice all present and correct. A friend of mine placed his order at race weekend and he's ended up with forty camping places in an impact crater just to the south of the Copernicus ejecta ridges. I also understand that a sorry party from Doncaster are just about to enter a slingshot orbit of Uranus, bound for the new site just inside the Kuyper Belt. I'm not sure when they made their booking.
I dunno, the French!
H

Damn those pesky Norwegians, and why are they never the other half of the country?? (the women!!)  ;)

Honestly though I'm getting a little concerned now, it doesn't help that the forms will go to my folks house (I moved out since ordering them) I must start ring nightly to check!!

Like others I E-mailed the ACO to ask if mine had been sent or not.
Apparently it was sent on 1st December.
I then asked if they could fax a copy as it's not arrived. Fax was waiting when I got back lunchtime with the camping tickets as ordered so no BSJ for me!!!!!!!

There appears to be a number of people who have had invoices sent but not received - does this imply we have a shite postal system or does France ?

Has anyone stateside recieved one yet?

Classic tickets envelope was post marked 6 weeks before I recieved them ???, think there is a special corner of Le Mans sorting office which they put the bags of ACO mail in, and just work on it if there is nothing else to do, if your letter is in the bag at the bottom it never gets forwarded.

When we got back from Race of Champions we found we got our ticket allocation for Le Mans 2005, we got all we asked for, camping Houx, we didn't get ACO Grandstand tickets but Durand, not sure what that stand is like hopefully it's similar as it it's the same price. Paid by credit card yesterday so it's all sorted for us  8)

Well. Still waiting for some kinda recognition from ACO I decided to bump the odds up and down. Since Sod's Law rules and one of his many relatives Hob is a local deity (always doff my cap when driving past Hob's Hole Road, locally!) I booked my 11.15 ferry on Wednesday the 15th from Speedferries last night. SO, no worries now! The H A camping will certainly turn up next week, maybe even Monday and save me the trauma of a telephone reminder to the office.....

Come on someone, tell me it is so!

Steve keep the faith (and the six spaces One extra this time around!) we will have a pool, Nick has sorted one as a tip for fixing a Trader's Van!

Bill

 :D :D :D :D :D ;D ;D    8)

Excellent news  ;D, I'll put a word in with the ACO  ;)

You'll be pleased to hear that Durand is the ACO Tribune.
Rusty

Have now received next years' allocation and invoice like many others. It seem though that the ACO have just re-issued the same booking request as this years list.

This means we have more tickets than we need as next years party is smaller. Before I cancel the bits of the allocation I don't actually require is there anyone out there requiring 2 Sommer grandstand tickets (tribune 16, adjacent to the ACO Durand stand)?

Last year Mr RS2 took the grandstand tickets from me (well - paid for them actually) and I believe was pleased with the result - are you out there Simon? Or anyone else?

I also have, for some reason, a Technoparc campsite permit allocation that I do not require.

I know it's a little early for trading tickets but it can be a bit difficult, particularly with the grandstands to get what you want.

If no reply to this posting within 3 days then I will send the ACO payment and cancel what is superfluous to our requirements.

Note to Smokie - should this posting go in the sell or swap forum?

" should this posting go in the sell or swap forum?"

Whatever floats your boat I guess...

Sounds like you have got onto the same repeat list as I am on. Not everyone is so lucky.

It's a bit academic yet where to post, as the demand hasn't yet started. However, I'd say that you should always try to dispose of your tickets yourself rather than alter what the ACO think you need - I am consistently getting more tickets than I need, which are easy to dispose, but I worry that if I try to adjust anything with them I will get blackballed.

Having said that, mine haven't come through yet for 2005...but I know I have my usual allocation...  :)

Ive had my allocation and it looks like i'll have two tickets spare for the grandstand 20.Does anybody want these or shall i decline them.(92 euros each)

Whereabouts along the grid is that one PM? Am I right in thinking it must be pretty much opposite the first couple of pits??

Don't worry about getting your balls blackened Smokie. And for chrissakes keep away from the Fiery Jack.

Our group has varied from over 30 to sometimes less than 10 over the years, and I've never had a problem with the ACO when I've shrank my order, honey.

Self examination is the way forward. Try not to do it at the bus stop in the mornings though.
H
PS Three times a day's probably too often

Thanks Smokie. Yes -  I guess they have just sent me a repeat allocation and as you rightly say it's easier to move the surplus on rather than interfere with the allocation system at the ACO.

The spare Sommer grandstand tickets have already been snapped up. Just the Technoparc pass to go now.........

JP
Yes you are right.Its opposite probably the 4th or 5th pit up.

PM

Right then, that'll teach me! Managed to speak to a girl at ACO yesterday, she says that my camping tickets will not be issued until January and they will be BSJ! Then today, by a reply to an email they tell me that I won't be looked at for two months!!!  It's a good job there's a bus to BSJ from the roundabout at Techno, innit? Steve, you are still welcome in Nick's pool but you might all need to come visiting in the Big Pick-up! Unless I can get hold of six HA spaces somehow....

B*gger
B*gger
B*gger

Ordering the next years ('05) in May now after that!

 >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(        :(       ???


Bill

Yipee......

Just got my invoice and I'm lucky, cause I got what I ordered....the lemanszone.de-team will be back at Expo this year

Thanks PM, I'll check with the others and get back to you later!!

Bill

I think BobU has got a couple of HA tickets going spare, see Sale and swap below. I know it's only two, but it's a start.

One year we were short of a couple of HA tix, so we put all the gear into two cars, put the other two in Parking Red and forgot about them for the w/e. Remember that it's the number of cars on the campsite site, not the number of people or tents per vehicle.

That HAS to be a better idea than bloody BSJ!

Was that the indoor race in Paris.

If so and wwe are on about the same thing.

Woweeee

That was really good. And Unfortunalty Shumacher showed how god he is.

A, I see we've lost Andy's is it still ok to use it?

Thanks for the note, I have asked Bob to PM me about those. It looks the only way ahead now is to do that (we of course shall park on Green Antares if needs be :)  )  So Steve we may be pooling our assets after all, fingies crossed!

Seven months from now, by date, Speedferries to Boulogne 11.15 sailing.

"I got to admit it's getting better...."

Bill

Received a copy of the mail which didn't turn up via email from the nice laydeez at the ACO.

€1000. Where do I find that kind of money at this time of year?

What on earth have you ordered, Smokie?
Anyway the trick is to ring them, tell them that something, anything, is wrong with your allocation, and they will hold on to it, won't they? If I'm right they'll say yes, of course, (they did to me) and you won't need to pay until much nearer the race, maybe PQ, but that's rather close to race w/e this year.

Smokie
If you are an ACO member you dont have to pay the full amount until 1st March.Only 50% need to be paid now
PM

If you want i shall bring some SPS cash tomorrow, or cheque, which may help ?

Looks like i'll have 3 Grandstand Tickets left now and...wait for it...a Maison Blanche Pass

PM

Hi PM,

I know someone who needs an MB pass if it's still available.

Unfortunately our group have decided we want 8 Grandstand seats all together (like I'm going to find that many at this stage!!) so I can't help you with thise I'm afraid. I'm sure someone will though.

I got my invoice today but it's for a campsite called 'Guantanamo' ?

I'm a bit confused.  Does the ACO lay on a shuttle bus from here to the village and is it close to the circuit?

This worries me a bit as it may affect my retail opportunities for the chip van.

I was watching Huge Furry Whippingtool on TV the other day and he was serving up Tripe - looks like this coud be quite a money spinner.

Huge Furry Whippingtool ?  I thought BIGH had the monopoly on those

Yes it was the indoor rac in a very cold Paris & yes Schumacher really did show how good he was as did Kovalainen & Loeb, if you can drive you can drive  8)

If he does, he hasn't declared them on his tax return!

Got our allocation today, Beausejour and on the waiting list for Tetre Rouge. Has anyone ever got tickets having been on the waiting list or is this a device to let us down gently?
Apart from being miles from anywhere except Porche curves what is Beausejour like?

Ever been to Dartmoor?  ;)

Just got my invoice ;D

But in dont understand ???, do i have to fax it back to them with my creditcard details ???, or do i have to post it? ???

Please help

Best to do both!!!!

Better safe than sorry, and your unique order number will ensure no duplication!!

I'm still waiting for the invoice that was posted on the 1st December.
Forunantely I got the ACo to fax me a copy and I faxed back the acceptance.

What is up wit the postal service?

Poor old posties are too busy filling in those bloody self assessment forms ;)

But it has been shortened to just two questions!