Club Arnage

Not sure if this has been clarified or not, but.....

Is the new large banking on the inside of tetre rouge the intended viewing bank for next year, once the corner has been re-worked?

Or will it (the banking) change again once all the development work is complete?

If this is the intended banking, any ideas how far back the fence will move to?

Thanks.

no idea, but must say, i was very impressed by the banking.  It gives a great view over the whole corner from the exit of the esses to someway down the Mulsanne.

I agree, that is why I was trying to find out if it is permanent.

(that must be a record.....nearly 100 views and no replies!)

It just looks temporary. I would guess they did not get the grass seed down in time for it to take before the thousands arrived.

Surprised more of it did not wash away in the Wednesday night down pour.

Does anyone know if the tunnell will be removed or revamped when the corner is re-worked?

Maybe the ACO will stretch the budget and put some lights in it........

Grass seed ?????

Oh look there goes another one

The nice little plan and info section about the works has gone from the ACO site.  I'm still working on this one!

THIS IS WHAT IT LOOKED LIKE FROM HELI 1 ON SUNDAY MORNING

I guess by May next year then it will look like a hill on the south downs.......covered in (weeds and) wild flowers, all pretty like.........then some greeney will declare it a site of natural beauty and we won't be allowed to stand there.......ho humm.

Now that is flash!

Off topic.....but would you say the heli ride is worth a go?

Yes in a word.  There will be a full section on the heli ride in next years guide.  By Sunday morning when this shot was taken, I think there were only 10-12 cars left running, so not much too see in that respect, the heli's speed is 90 kts at 150m, so any cars will go by at a fair lick.

I enjoyed it to see the track etc and how it all fits together, if that makes sense.  Rather than the cars, we went round twice, to coin a well known bombing phrase!!  sat in the back and had a marvellous view, you get some numb-skulls who must sit in the front but you don't see much  more to be honest, don't take some huge lens you don't need it, nice wide angle on full auto and just click away.  Probably took about 100 shots from the air, marvelous.  all the shots from the LM weekend were taken on a point and shoot Casio.

quite agree.. the heli ride is a must ;D ;D, and yup.. we had a dad and his 12year old daughter bouncing around in the front so had to try to take photos (on line soon) around them as they wouldnt stay still >:( >:(

Andy

I'll put the Heli ride down for next year - can we have some more pics.

As for the Tetre Rouge Inside Banking, isn't this the site of the new sports stadium

Sorry, no wild flowers, just astroturf and concrete

http://site.voila.fr/fdlm2/divers/lemans01.jpg

this shows the position of the new football ground.

This would explain why they have started to demolish the houses alongside the road.

The only positive thing I could think of concerning the new banking was being able to see the cars set off down the Mulsanne. Now that view is going to be blocked by a sports stadium ???

 I was disappointed the trees on the run down from the esses have been taken away I always thought they added to the atmophere as they made it darker and   seemed to change the engine note

Crikey!

The ever changing appearance of Le Mans.......

Plus when you walked through late at night the dust hung in the air......not so much choking you but sticking to the skin giving a nice fake tan look.

But you are right, now that I think about it the cars did not appear so loud through that section, even on the outside of the track.

Nordic, that is a pretty handy picture you've got, gives us a great arial shot of the area that's gonna be developed on.

Now all we need is to know whereabouts the tram stop is going to be & if it's going to encroach on the 2 fields commonly known as Houx Annexe!! :)

Well done for posting the aerial pic, you can see our campsite!!! :D
(http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b285/DJFish/TertreRougefromtheair.jpg)

Cheers
Dave

would make sense if that was turned into a carpark for the stadium.  guess depnds who owns what land and compulsory purchase. 

Putting my optimists hat on, I'm guessing the field could remain as is, being used for camping for the 24 Hours and parking at other times.

I think you could be right Steve. Even if they started the stadium this week it would be at least a 20 month build, or longer if multiplex are involved.

When its complete there should be no reason to tarmac over the Annexe unless its to be used as a park and ride car park for the tram system.

What are they building on the outside of the circuit then? Seemed the tramline wound round a large construction site, what is it?

Thats the southern tram depot.

I can confirm, after a visit to the "maison du tram" yesterday that the Tertre Rouge (Stella) Bar will NOT  be demolished. ;D

Was pleasantly surprised by the new banking and the views it gave.  Took a leisurely walk from the inside of Tertre Rouge to the Esses without having to step out of view of the track.

I still prefer the 'old' Esses before any of the recent (well I say recent, but its probably a long time since the first) changes were made to this part of the track...  cars going 'light' over the hump just after the Dunlop bridge, followed by a striaght run down to esses themselves with shaded viewing areas on the way down to and (at the right time of the day) at the corners.

Still not complaining viewing here now is vastly improved thanks to the construction of the banks.

That was always my favourite part of the circuit, as far asI  am concerned it has all gone downhill since they changed it

I agree Bob - not as good as it was, but beginning to improve again.

As for favourite parts of the circuit... for me it has to be the braking point for Arnage in the darkness of the night.  When I first started coming that was about 100m nearer to Indianapolis than it is these days but the effect is much the same.  Awesome!

Was my favorite place as well, early Sunday morning, walking from Terte Rouge up towards the esses.

Simple the best.

on the same sets of bends, my favourite always used to be Indy corner - on the old spectaor banking before it was removed a few years ago. 

then you could see the cars braking for the first left hander and they were so close.

there was no catching fencing between Indy and arnarge then, so it was quite magical at nigt just hanging over the fence with the cars just a few feet away.

those were the days also when you could jump over the spectator enclosure fencing into the woods and walk in direction Mulsanne from Indy corner. 


oops, starting to sound a bit like a Grumpy old man!

What do you mean 'starting'? ;)