We stay on Tertre Rouge, as I posted on the thread about Musee there was a post on Pistonheads from someone who had been told that Tertre Rouge camping was closing due to the alterations to Tertre Rouge corner and moving to a site on the inside of the track. This seems unlikely to me as the site runs level with the essess and stops well short of the corner itself, besides the plan for the alterations I've seen involves moving the corner to slightly inside its current line, with no changes to the run from the essess to the corner. Then again the ACO don't always operate logically.
We stayed on Tertre Rouge for 2003,4 5, couldn't make it this year but have already got out request in for next year. We've always managed to get a pitch with a view of the track, I reckon you'd want to be there by Wednesday to get this, maybe early Thursday. To get a decent view over the people stood on the other side of the fence you'll need a bit of elevation, we boarded out the roof rack of a Landy and sat on top. The campsite is convenient for the village etc, has a friendly atmosphere with many of the same people in the same pitches year after year. Exiting the curcuit is easy via the gates next to Tertre Rouge corner making access to Carrefour, the Stella Bar and the Mulsanne easy. On the down side I wouldn't want to arrive any later than Thursday morning as the ground on some of the pitches is very rough, it's not exactly lush grass anywhere on the site to be fair and we've always had to scan the ground for broken glass left behind by Moto GP scoundrels before pitching.
There is plenty of noise for the track during the race as you'd expect but you'll be used to that on Musee I'm sure. The first time we camped there I noticed the noice from the motorway behind the campsite early in the morning but I can't say it bothered me the other 2 times. I like the fact that the campsite is smaller than most, showers and toilets are fine, and the crowd are a good bunch, no thumping music all night, although it did get a bit interesting last year when some crazy Dutch threw boxes of fireworks onto their bonfire on the Sunday night. the campers are overwhelmingly British, some Dutch, Belgians and French.
Apart from ll that I'm a bit confused about these reports of a new campsite inside Tertre Rouge corner, I thought that's where the new football ground is going?
