You obviously were not going fast enough

I know from experience that the vans the police use don’t do a 140mph.  
But do they use helicopters?  

Can you land a BOEING 747 at the airport in Le Mans?  

I can just imagine the face of the checkout person in the supermarket when you try to buy 105,400Kg of beer for the trip home!  

Have a look at your private messages jpchenet, I have sent you some.

I'm not actually part of Mr Toads group.

I found his web site when looking into names for our group (not going this year)  and found he had already got the one we wanted and deserved the most (see my picture to the left).

I also advised Mr Toad on how to build a beer mountain as large as the one pictured, instruction on his site.

EuroSport on analog is free, but not on digital.

Check out this web page for details http://www.ses-astra.com/tv-radio/guide/lineup/markets/F_analogfree.htm

Much more Satellite info available at http://www.beermountain.com/satellite_tv.htm, which I helped write after three years of taking a satellite dish and TV to Le Mans.

There is usually a large amount of coverage on EuroSport.
Available on still on Analog I think (Old sky box and dish) and on Sky Digital (Old sky dish with new LNB and digi box from home).
Plus Football

I tried attaching a picture and got:-
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which yabbse.org say is due to "This means that you haven't set up your attachments paths properly."

See for more details.
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Our group normally does some sort of Hospitality (not this year).
In 2000 we had 50+ people watching the football (England vs Germany) on a 14 inch TV thanks to our dish satellite.
We served burgers and Hotdogs afterwards.
Last year we again hosted the football matches on TV, but this time we had a 21 inch TV and Sky Digital.

Next Story:-

Title: "Where is everybody?"

The story starts on the ferry to France.
The non-drivers had a mammoth drinking session of the ferry to France. Come the time do re-join with the vehicles and disembark the ferry, one of the passengers was missing! It was thought that he had got a lift with one of the many other vehicles in our group in another section for the ferry.
Most of the group met up as soon as they left the ferry, but still no sign of the missing passenger.
The were multiple attempts to call the missing passenger on his mobile phone with no success.
Attempts were made to contact the vehicles that left the port without stopping and had mobiles, but this still left a few vehicles that the missing passenger could possibly be in.
The driver of the vehicle that the passenger was supposed to be in went back up the passenger ramp and asked if they has seen the missing passenger.  They had not seen the missing passenger and put a call out on the public address system for the passenger with no result.
It was decided to go to the first meeting point on the journey where all vehicles would stop.
This was the McDonalds in Argentan for breakfast some 45 miles away.
On arrival to McDonalds contact was made with all the vehicles but still no missing passenger.
While having breakfast contact was made with the missing passenger.
After being woken up by the cleaners from under a table, he had rushed off the ferry only to find all the vehicles gone some time ago. He then phone the driver of the vehicle we was supposed to be in asking "where is everybody?".
The response was in "McDonalds 45 miles on the way to Le Mans having breakfast".
After finishing breakfast and much debate the driver returned to the port to pick up the missing passenger.


PS
I have many more stories like this.

In response to the thread entitled "If you think we have fun..."

I think that people should add the own Le Mans related funny stories:-

So here is the first:-

Title: "Is that the boat leaving?"

The story starts on the day a group of Le Mans regulars prepared to leave for the trip to Le Mans.
The organiser of the group informs everybody to arrive at the Port for 8am in the morning to check in for the ferry.
So everybody arrived at the Port and met outside the port at 8am. Somebody at that point said "Is that the boat leaving?".
The problem was that 8am was not the check in time but the sailing time of the ferry.
The next ferry was not until 11pm, so what do you do in Portsmouth for a day?
One of the vehicles in the group had exhaust trouble, so everybody went to the local Tyre/Exhaust place to get the exhaust fixed.  While everybody was at the exhaust place minds turn to beer (As is only natural).
But where do you find beer at 8am in the morning? (This was a few year back when drinking establishments did not open until later).
The manager of the Tyre/Exhaust place suggested a local snooker club and with his borrowed membership card the group managed to pass themselves off as a visiting snooker team to gain access to the club bar which was open   . They drank and played snooker all day until it was time to collect the vehicle from the Exhaust place.
It was decided to buy the manager of the Tyre/Exhaust place a thank you gift for helping them obtain beer so early in the morning. The group visited the local Supermarket to buy the manager some beer, unfortunately they were thrown out for being to rowdy. They then paid a passer-by to buy the beer for them.
They then returned to collect the vehicle, return the managers membership card and give the gift of beer.
To end the story, a few more beers were had in the now open pubs before catching the ferry to France.

Tried and tested methods of keeping beer cool:-

Use a Freezer (A fridge cannot cool the beers fast enough for our consumption rate).

Use a 2000 Gallon swimming pool, filled with cold water (Also can be used to swim in and provides easy access to cold beer when swimming)

The ACO replied to my email and said:-

"Your tickets leaves this week by registered mail."