Ah! Mr Catchpole! how nice of you to remind us of the breakfast refreshment and dancing girls.
Had a truly memorable weekend. Camped up with a great bunch of people, JPC, Ferrari Spider, Gibb, Steve Brown, Andy, Rick, Norbert and his mob, Barry and family. The racing was wonderful, the cars were unspeakably fabulous, the weather was perfect and the beer was cold. But the highlight for me, the absolute apex, was blagging our way through the pit garages and spending half an hour on the pit wall. Just awsome seeing a Lola T70, Chevron B16 and a GT40 passing three abreast, flat out and but a few feet away with no catch fencing to obscure the view. I'd say we were priveliged to be at the heart of Le Mans. Except we weren't supposed to be there at all!
On the social side, we all had a good time, drinking at the track was not too excessive, although a good few were sunk over the weekend. Our big night out was Sunday in Deauville. After a wonderfully quick drive through the lovely summer countryside, me, Steve Z, JPC and Ferrari S went out on the lash. This involved a nice meal, wine, a trip to Deauville Casino to lose some money, a trip to the ultra exclusive Club Y nightspot (where we met the dancing girls from the Casino) and a cider brekky in a local cafe. Which was all fine and dandy until I was woken at 11.00 am by the cleaner hoovering our bedroom. We had a ferry to catch some 100kms away in Dieppe and clearly we were not going to make it. So I did what all self respecting folk would do: go back to bed for another hour. Had a pleasant breaky with JPC and FS said our goodbyes, went shopping and got the 18.00 Seacat to Newhaven.
Crowds at Classic were up 64% on 2002, it's reckonned about 50,000 people attended which is nearly as many spectators as at the French GP! Success of the event seems assured, so, Roll on 2006!
