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General Discussion / Re: Le Mans golden Era well and truly over???

« on: June 20, 2007, 09:30:44 am »

This was my 7th Lemans and I echo the sentiments from all the previous posts.  Significantly, the increased 'Chav' presence and mentality...  It seems to have become a popular destination for Stag parties and that tribal mentality, i.e. lets get a load of stickers made up with our names on our clapped out ford cougars and TVRs, drive 400+ miles, get pis*ed and miss the race... what race?! 

I have to say, I prefer the layout of the new village and seemed oblivious to the more 'corporate' nature of proceedings - It did however seem like us 2nd class citizens were not allowed to the presentation ceremony this year - not that we bothered to venture down this year due to the inclement weather.

On the subject of the sh*ty weather - I have read that by law of averages, it's a wash out every 4-5 years (the last being 2001 as I remember!!!)... Let's take something positive and hope the neanderthal brit tos*ers are put off from coming again.

Yep i agrea about the weather, i have been saying that we were due a wet one, and i think we got off lightly.  This year was no where near as bad as 2001 which saw flooded tents and general misery.  Least this year when it did rain it was just wet but still very warm.  When the race finished iwatched from Porsche Curves with a waterproof jacket and a pair of shorts on, but in 2001 the rain was accompanied by genuinely cold wind. not nice. Plus best of all, at least saturday afternoon and night was dry and warm.

Oh and don't let my comments make you think it was just the brits.  i know too that other nationalities are just as bad and sometimes worse.  I still remember the impromptu euro techno rave that happened at 5 am on the Nurburgring campsite DTM weekend.  Not Fun!!!

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General Discussion / Re: Le Mans golden Era well and truly over???

« on: June 20, 2007, 09:25:41 am »

On the walk to MB friday night we passed a group of lads on a stag weekend who were stopping cars and trying to open doors and squirt them with their super soakers. They look on the French family inside one of them was worried.
To me they should clamp down on the mad friday burnouts, gopeds and waterpistols, then the chav element will go somewhere else.
Once inside the DFH party faith was restored in Le Mans freindship, cheers lads.

yeah i saw them, that was happening just as we arrived at  Le Mans.  That is also not much fun, turning up at le mans at 11pm on the friday, every one is wankered, and all you wanna do is find your group to get your tickets and site and get your tent up ASAP.  And all any one else wants to do is shout burnout burnout and open your car door, thank god for centrla locking

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General Discussion / Re: So who got done for speeding this year?

« on: June 19, 2007, 01:00:26 pm »

so how many people alter their plates when they get to france?

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General Discussion / Re: Rouen

« on: June 19, 2007, 12:55:48 pm »

ha ha , Rouen, we ended up taking a wrong turn, went up some silly back road, that just went up and up this hill, continued on and some how ended up on the A28 beyond the tunnel, bit of luck for once.   Not as bad as on the way there where we ended up in downtown St Dennis Paris due to satnav going loopy. 3 hours stuck in central Paris was not fun, still got to see the Moulin Rouge....ha ha

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General Discussion / Re: So who got done for speeding this year?

« on: June 19, 2007, 10:56:48 am »

yeah my mate got his licence taken off him a couple of years back. But the DVLA were told it was lost and it has never reappeared since.  We did'nt see one single police car ont he way back on sunday, but then the conditions were pretty atrocious, so they porobably stayed in waiting for you lot on the monday.

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General Discussion / Le Mans golden Era well and truly over???

« on: June 19, 2007, 10:36:05 am »

Heard about this site whilst sitting in traffic listening to RLM,

anyway, this was my 5th visit to Le mans, so I'm not a newbie but still way off a lot on here in number of visits.  My first being the now famous Moist 2001.  However I went this year and could not help but feel that Le mans was different, not the same anymore.  For one thing the corporates seemt o have well and truly taken over.  Never felt like a second class citizen at le mans before, in fact it was always traditionaly the one place where owners of say ford escorts camped quite amicably next to aston martin owners etc.  But this year the ACO seemed more interested in ensuring the VIPs were shuttled around all over the place and also had the best viewing areas.  In fact it was almost on certain occasions, get of the way there's a VIp coming through.  Pissed me off something rotten.

Also the danger factor, we all love Le mans for the crazy stuff, but this year it seemed as a pedestrian bloody hard to stay alive.  Plus on top of that the ever annoying mopeds being allowed to ride around in the packed parts even behind the grandstands, just stupid.  The ACo needs to realise Le mans is as high a profile event as any F1 GP so they need to get into the 21st century.

Oh and the scanners, much better, but the security precence seemed a little bit excessive again,

The worst thing of Le mans now is the inability to take pictures, not many clear viewing areas now that are not obscured by either a wire fence or a concrete slab, factor that in with the inability to get tot he more obscure parts of the circuit, meant my pics were lacking this year.

One of the worst things though, as much as i hate to say it, was the sheer number of brit newbies this year.  There were too many newbies who forgetting the basic ettiquettes of Le mans camping.  Like the tits who decided to start a war of words with another foreign set of campers.  the tits who decided it was good fun to sit there trying to do burn outs in a scooby ( yeah that will work dicks), just seemed there were a few too may boyo brits at le mans this year, spoiling the event for others.  And also the tits driving liek its a race track on route to le mans, Yeah it is nice to drive in france but, i tell ya, drive like some of them did and you deserve to get busted byt the police, just out and out dangerous.

Dunno i love le mans with a passion, but just finding that either i am getting old and moany ( yes nearly 30!!!! soon) but think the Golden era is over for le mans, but its still good but just not the same.  I actually prefer our regular trip to Nurburgring now.  But i will be going next year, but just hoping its not just me noticing these littel differences.

PS great site