Thankfully the ACO have largely had this under control for the last 2 years.  But in 2022 it was a nightmare.  I was in the front row and couldn't see anything at the start or the finish. 

This was my 37th Le Mans.  Every year since 1986 except 2020 and 2021.  I'm one of those who doesn't camp - in fact, I've never camped and I suppose that being the case I don't miss it and certainly don't want to do it at 67 years of age and in the weather we experienced at LM this year.  I had a great time, primarily because for quite a while it didn't look as though I would make it.  I've had some serious health issues over the last two and a half months and if dates for meetings and procedures had fallen differently, I simply wouldn't have got there.  In the end I had to adjust my plans, travel over with my son and his partner.  It was a shorter trip but nonetheless an enjoyable one.  It also made me realise just how crucial it was (for me) to have seats in the right grandstand (T17) with the available facilities.  Will I be there in 2025? - health permitting, you betcha!  

PS  Werner, Arnage camping was cropping up on the ACO resale site fairly regularly even in the few weeks before the event.  I bought Mulsanne camping for a friend when I bought my own tickets way back last year. 

The one thing I really noticed was that it was much cooler this year - all week. 

In Expo and Mulsanne/Arnage car parks too. 

I had a great time with my son, his partner and a friend of many years in our group.  Tickets were bought direct from the ACO (both I and my son's partner are members).  We don't camp and have stayed in the same location now for 15 years.  It was particularly good because due to some health issues, I was very close to not making it and had to cancel my plans to drive over as the solo advance party, so we went in my son's Shogun instead, which caused some last minute hiccups with the ferry booking!  I didn't find it any busier than last year but then again we had GS seats in Durand with it's associated facilities.  The toilets alone were worth the price of my membership this year.  All being well ((((fingers crossed) we'll be back again next June. 

Loads have been available on the resale site and a surprising number looking for new homes on Pistonheads. 

Download and install the Telegram app which is available for iOS, Android or from the Microsoft Store for your pc.  Once installed and run, add in this link:-  

t.me/lemans_resale_advisor

You will then not only be notified of every ticket that goes up on the resale site, but you will be given a direct link to the purchase page.  You still need to be quick though, many tickets are gone inside a minute or two.  

Use the Telegram app for notifications of all tickets coming up for resale.  You may yet get lucky.  There have certainly been a few Arnage campsite tickets over the last few weeks.  You just have to use the app and be quick when they come up. 

You can also show your membership card via the app (which is pretty much the only use that the app has). 

Yep.  Just go to one of the member points (outside the rear of T17/T18 and if they still do it there, down at the Espace Club at the Dunlop Bridge), show your membership card and you should receive your wristband.  That's how it's been for a number of years, anyway. It's normally the first thing I do when I get to the circuit. 

Yep, there have been a lot of tickets up.  Each day I wake up to about 60 notifications overnight on the Telegram app. 

We were in T17 at the start and it was pretty dry at that side of the track.  It wasn't until we were down between the end of the Porsche Curves and the Ford Chicane at about 10 pm that the heavens opened again and we got rained on for the one and only time.  

Except when it doesn't..... 

I've had plenty of fully dry years. 

Almost certainly not YouTube, until after the event. 

I remember bringing my boys for the first time, although they were a bit older.  The eldest in 2016 and the younger one in 2018.  The younger one has come back in 2019, 2022 and 2023 (with his partner) while the older one came back in 2018 and then said he wasn't coming back again until he was working there.  He spannered for Nielsen in 2020 and Algarve Pro (G-Drive) in 2021, ironically the two years out of the last 38 that I had to miss!