Le village re-work

[redstu]

Do you think they will have a more globalised food selection in the new village ?  Macdonalds perhaps ?

[Brushy]

lts going to be situated between phones4u and Starbucks

[jpchenet]

Actually, a McDonalds will be at Le Mans, down near the Decathlon I believe near the Mulsanne ropundabout, which makes you wonder if it will be open during the race and if it will allow people to get down near the Mulsanne?

[Bob U]

I forsee a publicity shot for McDonalds here. One of their drive-throughs and an LMP1 at speed in the same shot.

I doubt it will be open duing the race, can't imagine the ACO agreeing to anything that will give the paying punter a better view.

[jpchenet]

Will they have the payment booth up by the Stella Bar and the collection point down near the Chinese?

Now that's what you call Fast Food! 

[Paddy_NL]

Please, no McD there!
Haven't we got enough of those sh1tty restaurants already?

[redstu]

Being escorted from MB by the size police for occupying more than 7X5!

[Paddy_NL]

lucky those coppers weren't at our pitch last year then

[Christopher]

What....they knocked down the Motel / ACO tower building thing.

The roof was always a good place to watch from.

[DelBoy]

What....they knocked down the Motel / ACO tower building thing.

The roof was always a good place to watch from.

They've knocked EVERYTHING down except for the ACO clubhouse (the old museum.  Even the old tunnel by the main entrance has been filled in - probably with the rubble from the ACO tower!!

Del

[Paddy_NL]

yes, it looks very knocked down indeed

[Kpy]

Here's a plan showing the true extent of the new sanitised Village, with a tendency towards "VIP" facilities.  A great deal of this will not be ready until 2007, including the construction of 9 additional pits - 55 starters in 2007.
http://tinyurl.com/hlpoy
more architects' drawings here: http://tinyurl.com/z99os click on  + de plans

[Ferrari Spider]

KPY, first drawings that I've seen.  As you say much will be complete by 2007, any ideas if there will be "temporary" facilities for food and drink, I guess there must be!  Quite like the look of the restaurant overlooking the curve up to the Dunlop area, I guess that replaces the dust bowl of seating that use to be there.

Will the Poo Bar still be in this area?  Where can a chap get a chip baquette, kebab and bottle of poo!!

[Robspot]

Too right! Get the riff-raff out.

And while they're at it why don't they build a massive 5 star hotel complex on maison blanche, houx, houx annexe and karting nord and charge £500 a night, that should get the corporate punters pouring in. Bleu can become an extended helicopter landing site.

Any of you commoners who insist on going can camp in Beausejour which by then will have extended down past Tanzania, as long as you agree not to actually visit the track, in fact General Adminssion will no longer be available unless you have purchased a corporate package.

Another added benefit is that corporate clients won't want to stay up all night so the racing could stop around 9pm to allow them to get some sleep and then restart around 9am (subject to approval - that might be too early). This would shorten the race to 12 hours and bring it in line with our American cousins idea of Le Mans because they have trouble concentrating for more than 12 hours in one go.

Purely for Health & Safety reasons this would be a winner because the drivers wouldn't have to negotiate the course in the dark (which must be very difficult) and it would allow them to get a sound nights sleep instead of grabbing a few hours here and there.

The deranged residents of Tertre Rouge and Musee can stay there as no-one from the ACO is actually brave enough to ask them to move.

Any other suggestions on how to disssuade motor racing fans from visiting Le Mans? We could send them to the ACO and help speed up the process.

[Lorry]

If its anything like Wembley Stadium, there will be much poo and no bar