2004 tales and memories

[Skoff]

Wow, too many good ones to list them all...

The N138 and follow-my-leader with various exotic hardware...
Steve and the lads letting us pitch the tent on their patch - Thanks Lads we owe you a crate of beer - will bring it along next year!!!
Seeing Tiff Needel tell some poor chap to Eff-off after interupting one of his links  
Seeing the TVR boys cross the finish line
The race at dawn - wow
The drama of the 'vettes vs Ferraris
Feeling like a celebrity on the way home being waved at, photographed and even videoed by the locals for at least 100miles out of Le Mans!
Planning next years trip on the ferry on the way home (is it 2005 yet??)
The list goes on....

[ridefast]

that superb piece of totty in the red cat suit in the drivers parade before the race, didn't notice what team they were cos she kept threatening to get em out for the lads, sadly she didn't!! shame (pics can be found on official Le mans web for those who want to re-live that experience)

I found this on motorsport.com.  
By the way, those were the Larbre Competition drivers...

[Chrisgr31]

I have to mention that we were standing about 2 feet from the Hawain Tropic Girls with Bollocks during the parade on Friday.

They got more attention than anyone and I noticed that one lot of Hawain Tropic girls totally ignored them which was most amusing!

ps I can't spell Hawain!  

[Stu]

In no particular order:

Low Flyer's (100's of them)
The RS2Babe Pool (pulled me from the brink of death a few times)
The Liverpool Boys freezer contents
The Liverpool boys sign and flags. (Like the North Star when I was pissed)
The TVR's and the Morgan finishing.
The close Audi race.
Friday night (amongst others)
The Poo Bar
The New Zealand Swimming instructor with that 'Knights of the Round Table' bra on.
Two new fire eating recruits (Respect Lads)
The noise of the Corvettes. (Always impressive)
Tai Curry (Respect Lisa,  Top Dollar)
The heat (36 degrees when we arrived)
Meeting everyone.
First time in stands for start and finish.
My 12V shower (when I  finally built it that is. Was that good though it will be improved for next year)
The friendliness of everyone I met. Never shook so many hands in my life.

What a vintage year. Next Years plans are under way already. Just need the date of the race.

[JonM]

Forgot to mention following a D-type on a twisty D road (where else?) on the way down; he wasn't holding back. It was a real privilege to see.

[starbar]

My memories of this year were

Seeing my old mate Dougie cry his eyes out at being dragged over the wall onto the start and finish straight after the race, (he has had a stroke and not very mobile) he never thought he would make it back to LeMans never mind standing with the rest of the hordes. this was his 15th appearance.

Winning a Radio Lemans competition, i.e. signed Bentley (1/18th scale) with the winning drivers from last year, having an evening meal with Chuck Dressing in the Audi hospitality and sat with johnny Herberts mum and dad (very nice people) spoke to Guy Smith as well. Also got the autographs of the Champion Audi drivers JJ, Marco and Emmanuelli.

Meeting all you reprobates at the shampoo bar on saturday evening. (even though I was still on cloud 9) and I just loved the chain mail bra - what a super girl. she even stuck a TW*TS logo on my groin (probably the most excitement I had all week.

Enjoying more Audi hospitality throughout the race, just popped in for a coffee and snacks whenever I wanted, and the TV coverage and the Text telling you lap times and which sector the vehicles was in was mind boggling trying to take the information in.

And finally to my 3 travelling companions who this week would not have been possible,  Dave, Dougie and Simon

Roll on 2005  --- COME ON.

[fraz]

well this was my first LeMans and apart from the general ambience of the week , all the fireworks, the noise, lesGirls  etc etc etc one enduring memory will be the Range Rover that got wrapped around a tree in the Terte Rouge campsite Sunday night.

Could have been a serious incident but fortunately the only people hurt were the driver (apparently not the owner!)and the passenger (bounced off windscreen before exiting stage left via the passenger door window) , the tree stopped them going into innocent campers. The idiot came down the gravel track at some stupid speed and eneded up embedded in a pine tree,the front LH wheel was back into the passenger door!!!


Hmmm wonder if the kids next to us got their Escort home on spacesavers after doing burnouts and blowing both front tyres

[Rover Man]

 

First time, it won't be the last!

Planning next year already, leaving the missus in Paris and driving down early Saturday.

Great race, great atmosphere - why haven't I been before???

[DelBoy]

... leaving the missus in Paris and driving down early Saturday.

Saturday??? - you'll miss half the fun, especially on the Friday - wheelies, burnouts, campsite parties, Arnage street party, fireworks and, of course, lots of liquid refreshment.  Try leaving the missus in Paris on Tueday or Wednesday!

DB

[Radar]

- Avoiding the gendarmes to get trackside on the Mulsanne at dusk on Saturday

- Synchronised overtaking in a 4-car convoy on the way down

- Watching Herbert kicking arse trying to make up the gap in the closing stages

- Friday evening in Arnage!!!

[critchetti]

Stoney from the US who could do a passable rendition of any car from the race - current and past, turbo and non turbo varients, full race and qualifying laps, awesome and top entertainment.

Critchetti

[bird]

Too much stuff lost from my brain already!

Here's some of the more memorable bits tho:

Meeting the B.O.L.L.O.X. bwoys in camping vert and fully abusing their facilities.
L'illegal beaucoup viewing spot on the mulsanne straight (plus the scars to prove it).
Chamonning everyone in hearing distance all weekend.
Red Marker Pen Madness.
You lot.
Being fully town centre drunk in the chamonpagne bar
Chundering attractively all over the chamonpagne bar  
Shivering to glowing brakes and popping noises.
Waking up with "Paul" and "Steve" scrawled on my left and right tits respectively.  
Killer Caterham, VW Sharan with a waterpistol dude in the ski box, and much chamonning at the camping vert roundabout.
Footie at Tetre Rouge (despite the result).
CARS CARS CARS!

There's more, I know it, but my brain's still in another country and it might not come back. Should it do I'll write some more.

Chamon next year!

 

[Radar]

And another one I forgot - getting 105mph out of a 1972 MGB on the return journey while trying to keep up with a Porsche. The rebuild will probably cost a fortune, but hey, it was fun.

The B is red, by the way, and if I accidentally cut you up in the traffic on the Rouen road - Sorry, but I had to keep moving. Overheating, you see.

[Felix]

I'm rather perplexed and upset today.

I reckon the Cat got the navigation somewhat ar*e about face as I must have took a wrong turning in the Channel Tunnel and, after driving for miles and miles, thought it a good idea to ask for directions.

When I tried a bit of my fluent french on the old knarly biddy by the side of the road, she just looked at me thoughtfully, took a swig of her gin, and laughed heartedly.  I sent a shiver up my spine.

Anyway, after passing the odd looking guy sitting on the fence playing the banjo, I was SERIOUSLY worried.

The camp site we ended up on was a bit bizarre, I felt a bit guilty at attempting to sell fried fish to the locals.

[Lancs Se7en]

Sorting the leaking water hoses on the GT40 en route to Le Mans

Looking at peoples faces and hearing the laughter as I drove through Arnage wearing a Prince Charles mask

Watching one of our group creeping up on the Pink Lady of the Latrine as she slept on Sunday afternoon outside the front of her charge

Paying our respects at the D Day museum and memorial in Bayeaux

A youngsters face as he was invited to sit in the F40 for a photo session


And lots more besides