Any luck finding a pusher yet (oo,er)?  Mr T can attest that it's about the worst place for shoving a chair about.  Hoping at least that my little scooter will get us through the woods to Pouen (sp) which I haven't been able to get to for nearly five years now.

Anybody else planning to go?

I posted about the problem persisting after having a very pleasant conversation with the woman in the Museum ticket office.  Clearly, it was a far greater problem for her (a permanent fixture whom I know passingly well) and the staff than it ever was for us and probably cost the ACO a bit in terms of the staff needed to re-issue the offending tickets.  Especially so as they did not know exactly how many were going to be affected in this way as not everybody was aware or took any notice of what was printed on the tickets.

However, the fact that my friend in his DB came back to the club car park to find a large, printed, yellow notice on his car, remonstrating with him for not having his parking ticket in his windscreen was just laughable.

I love living here, I find the French much as I find the British - some I adore, some I'd rather never see again, thanks very much.  All in all, I'm glad the ACO puts the race on and keeps it going but I do wish I could work out how to get some of our feedback through to them.

On the whole I have a great deal of respect for De Chaunac's instincts.  8 Oreca chassis in this year's P2, plus interests in the Toyota team ain't bad by anybody's standards.   At least it's a coupe.

Aw, diddums.

Anybody going?  Does everybody still stay at Whittlebury or on the track campsite they're offering?

And some daytime stuff.  Sorry the videos are crude, handheld and unedited but at least they have a little more action than the Motors coverage!

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A bit of night-time stuff.  More atmosphere than quality as I seem to have been on about ten thousand ASA at the time!

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Utter crap.  Reminds me of the Britcar coverage - also mainly studio chat.  The bits of video I took from the stand with my Flip are more interesting and that's saying very little!

Fantastic weekend (12k or so up on last year - attendance wise) only marred by the fact that I had food poisoning plus a total old-fart disaster whereby both Mr T and I thought we'd packed Robbo's spare batteries for my scooter when neither of us had.  He then had to shove me up the hill in the village single handed when the first set went flat having got me out to TR on Friday night/Saturday morning.  We were thus pretty much stuck in the grandstand for the rest of the weekend so missed seeing so many of you.  It really is over far too quickly to allow us to see the vast amount of stuff that's about.

Great though to catch up with the Liverpool Boys and (briefly) Tom, Steve and co.  Huge thanks also to my mate Herard at the local bar in the village (known to some of you as the destination of my mad Friday drive-outs), who this morning presented me with a genuine Porsche badge for the scooter which he'd procured over the weekend.

I'm already on the hog trail and the baked beans are in the queue awaiting the tasting trial.

Sad so see a couple of very valuable casualties but better that than all these wonderful machines kept in cotton wool in museums.  I do think it's great to see cars that are in the permanent exhibit in the adjacent museum are run and actually raced on the track during these weekends.

Rumours abounding down here that Peter is trying to persuade the powers that be to buy large parts of Hunaudieres so that the long circuit can be a permanent feature at LM (know anything about this, Mr Cheese?).  This might even mean a Classic every year if it ever comes off but would, imo, remove some of the magic if it were not longer a public roads race.  We shall see.  Interesting times ahead.

I had my GE ticket round my neck one evening during 1st quali and it certainly did go black but not enough to make it illegible before I realised what was happening and hid it!

Note that the problem persists for the Classic.  Popped in today and apparently the stock was ordered for both races so don't leave 'em in the sun (of which there is a fair bit - on and off - at the mo'.)

Help yourself.

Not as sharp as I'd like, sorry.

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I think that's the most likely explanation.  In fact, the LM weekend is by far the worst here for rejected Brit cards of all sorts.  I think the coms links just get fried!  Sometimes just 5 minutes later the same card will work fine.  Not much help when you're out of fuel though!

Duh?  Mine (Santander UK) does!