Club Arnage

Amazingly for the first time a French marque will be honoured at Saint Saturin. Alpines galore,allez le bleu.

They are quite cute, but far too French.  I suppose they've run out of British marques

No surprise and, I suspect, nothing to do with running out of British marques.

Renault Alpine are launching their new car this year, and its 40 years since the A442 appeared at Le Mans, so might have something to do with it.

MG Mark

Looks like a wannabe Porsche to me...

The Alpine factory was in Dieppe, so keep an eye out for the commemorative display on a roundabout if going Newhaven - Dieppe.

(http://www.paris-normandie.fr/documents/10157/0/PN-560948.jpg)

A French car???? What next Humvees?  It is the Britsh Welcome, and there are plenty of makes that I haven't seen linke Avis and Lagonda (but maybe before my time).  :P

The organisers should hide their face in shame.

I might drop by for a bite and a glass of the champers just to check it out.

Aricus

I didn't enjoy it last year so there'll be one less Brit car this year

Mulsanne looked far friendlier too so I'm expecting to go there instead

Perdu,

Wasn't it rather wet at Mulsanne last year? Friendly = umberella?

Aricus

:)
I didn't make it to Mulsanne last year sadly, mostly due to being stuck in lousy traffic in St Sat.
Queueing to leave and tussling with a French chap in the uphill exit left me totally UNKEEN

It rained there too

I'll think twice about it this year too - it's a great classic car park event, but has in many ways become a victim its own success as it has grown over the years. Traffic on the way in and out is painful; if you're not in a car that will get entrance, forget it. Did Mulsanne a few years ago and it was v.pleasant.

MG Mark

Yes. St Sat has now become so popular it has really outgrown the available space.  If you don't arrive in you classic at sparrow fart, you end up at the top of the site - that's assuming you can take the dreadful traffic control.

As it was raining last year, our alternative Friday plan was to stay at the track and drink beer!

Missed it (deliberately) last year and guess we'll do the same this year.

Is Mulsanne a worthy alternative?

Did we?...

>Martini...LB

I was a happy passenger with Garyfrogeye a couple of years ago and we popped in to Mulsanne after escaping the St Sat traffic jam

It looked equally welcoming (as St Sat) and just a bit less over whelming

I think I'd be happy to pass my afternoon there

Even if it rains, my Midget has a soft top that erects (har har) in very few seconds

:)

We did Mulsanne last year and, whilst much lower key with much less to see etc, it was a doddle to get in and out of and there was a good atmosphere.
I think this years Friday will be very much led by the weather and whether or not we get our rears out of the tent in good time to get to St Sat before the vast unwashed descend.
I might just go into town and mosey around, hmmm.....

Last year the featured marque was supposed to be MG. However, with the new Pistoheads parking area, it has become a lot less about classics and much more about exotica, which really isn't my bag. Previous British marques have included Corvette and Delahay. It's also become way more expensive to eat and drink there.
Agree with Perdu and MG Mark that it's become a victim of its own success. The traffic was so bad coming out last year that I set off in the opposite direction to Le Mans and let the sat-nav take me back cross country. You also get caught up with the traffic from the Friday late arrivals.
Yes I think that Mulsanne will be de rigueur for 2016

I remember it before it became a formal event - in the absence of the motorway,  you had to drive through the village. Villagers were at the traffic lights halfway down the hill and, if you were driving something classic and British, you got waved over and directed to the hall they hold it in now, where you got given a cup of tea in recognition of a long journey. Result - driver refreshment and villagers got to see nice cars close up. IIRC, it was open on the Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

MG Mark

Aaaahhh, my signature...  ;)

Oh, not this then!!  >:D ;D  http://tinyurl.com/jodrkzk

You're quite alert! We need more lerts... ;) ;D


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Do you remember Beaumont s Sarthe.  There's an odd junction in the middle, with a few cafes, and there'd be a D type or two, and a few other British classics parked up, but nowhere for the rest of us to stop.

St Saturnin is a complete roadblock.  Last year I went on the bypass and came in the other way, and gained 10 minutes on some friends.  I've never really liked the look of the food or the price of the beer.  They get a good selection of cars, but I've seen them all before.  And I came out the back way and used the satnav too

Can't find anything on Mulsanne, except la 32ème édition du Festival de l'Accordéon, salle Edith Piaf.  Sound like some form of torture 

Remember Beaumont well, as described. Nice stuff parked up and chaps on the cafe terrace overlooking the junction. There would always be something nice or funny there, D-Types/Astons, or the Gulf-liveried Reliant Robins in latter years!

The newish motorway from Rouen is convenient, but we still take the old N138 route to/from Le Mans from about Sees, just for a bit of variety, the history of it, and for pre-motorway times sake. Still nice to do, although the villages that used to be full of people waving on the way back have virtually nobody out on the streets now.

MG Mark

See my previous post (five above)  >:(

(okay, I digress. no mas)

Cant find anything on Mulsanne, anybody got a link or some info?

If you've been down the Mulsanne a few times there is often a wooden horse on the right. In that little line of buildings is a tyre shop, a saddler etc, and a bar. It's changed its name a few times and I can't remember it, but it has an enormous range of beer,  If the road isn't closed could that be what you are looking for?  Very big inside being an old industrial unit.

I will be bike less and possibly Barry less this year so would appreciate a lift from anyone doing a little voyeuristic trips out. I will be on camp carnage
Thanks in Advance

I can't imagine you without that bike

Or some bike

I don't have a scooby where I will be*, no doubt Gary will tell us when he knows but there's often a spare chair in one of the Spridgets  ;)


* hopefully not too far away from a certain large green and black vehicool

We'll be here during Friday, almost a cert, some sort of 'do' in Mulsanne during Friday evening too, hmmm .......

http://www.viragedemulsanne.org/viragedemulsanne/index.php/en/ (http://www.viragedemulsanne.org/viragedemulsanne/index.php/en/)

Perhaps they would appreciate a Ford S-max turning up? Not!   :o

Thinking about heading over there too, before the parade in town. 

There was a few nice old bits outside the cafe in Beaumont last year. We also get off the motorway at Alencon to get great value Normandy cider from LIDL then potter down the old 138 in an apply haze of nostalgia and anticipation.

I managed to do both last year, but I think the rain helped reduce traffic.

Who is going to which?

Aricus

try the 'R'Hunaudieres' in Ruaudin instead

There was a an interesting but not that well attended event in Teloche (South of Mulsane) last year where the garage which Porsche took over for the race for many years was open with cars, films and photographs on display.  Interesting to see pictures of the Pink Pig being painted in the garage and Porsches over the years parked in the garage and outside.  It was something I stumbled on as it didn't seem particularly well publicised and my brother and I were the only Brits there.  Not seen anything about it happening again this year.   

Hi Elanman,
                 A few of us went to that Porsche thing last year. I think it was a once off event. Interesting bit of history.
Phil

There was something going on in Arnage on the Thursday last year, just past the level crossing on the left by the supermarket that had closed down. Cannot remember what they called it. I think Lofty got some photo's of it.

Old motors in the school playground opposite the super meercat.

Phil,

Glad to hear others also found it. It was interesting and a far cry from the way the teams do it today.