Fax,
You're lucky to have your commentators, including Steve Matchett (the ex-Benetton mechanic who has written a few good books on the subject of F1) whilst we put up with James Allen. At least Brundle offsets the irritating git to an extent
Good luck with returning to watching the fray of F1. It's my opportunity on the race days to watch it whilst doing the ironing (which get major brownie points with the missus and gives me exclusive rights to the telly for a couple of hours). If it's a boring race, the ironing is done very well and if its exciting then the quality of ironed finish is cr*p.
For me, Le Mans had always been as much about the getting there, meeting up with old friends, relaxing away from home, as it is about the racing. On the years where more is happening in the race, more attention is paid to it, and when less, then more is paid to the enjoyment of other things.....
Catch fencing - yes there's stacks of it at Le Mans in all the official places to spectate, which started growing from the mid-90's onwards, as much to keep crowds from invading the track at the end of race before all the cars had finished, as a safety thing, although of course Le Mans always has the spectre of '55 hanging over. What amazes me with the the circuits in the States, a somewhat more litigious arena than over here, you have so little of it, you lucky sods.
MG Mark
