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Having driven accross the continent through the night, it kills you. I would also imagin you wouldnt get much sleep at the race, so you will have no sleep for 3 days...
If I were going id stick a day on each end for traveling.
If I were going id stick a day on each end for traveling.
The longest sleep I have ever had was after the 1990 Le Mans, where I drove down during the Friday, via Paris and got to Le Mans around 2am on the Saturday of the race. I then got around 3 hours down time, though not sleep to be woken by a French Police officer with a big **** dog telling me the ticket office had opened. I then managed maybe 2 hours sleep during Saturday, watched the entire race and drove home, getting into my pit around 4am on the Monday morning. I WOKE at 11am on the Tuesday! In those days I was fit as a fiddle and I was 100% destroyed for the last 2 hours of the drive home, stopping for black coffee at each service station from Dover to Staffordshire!
Plan ahead, fit in sleeps time and if you can get a hotel in town!
Plan ahead, fit in sleeps time and if you can get a hotel in town!
Drive over, its part of the fun! You can sleep when you get back. We usually go down Wed/Thurs and have a stop over in a small village on the Thursday night, then drive the last hour or so Friday morning. Friday night out on the town get some kip then down to the track for midday. Sleep Sun night and drive back Monday, though I have driven back straight after the race... not recomended!
Not done the whole camping thing usually book into one of those cheap hotels for about 30 euros a night, and get a taxi to the circuit.
Not done the whole camping thing usually book into one of those cheap hotels for about 30 euros a night, and get a taxi to the circuit.
Soldato
The general admission is fine. There are loads of places to watch on the normal ticket, infact I wouldn't bother going for a grandstand. Down by the Porsche curves there is a great banked area that you can get to easily and there are loads of viewing areas.
You do need to drive down though, that is part of the fun seeing random sports cars of all ages driving about. I'll try and find the place that a friend of mine uses which worked out at £215 each for camping & food in an English run campsite. Memory serves they have their own shower blocks (public ones can get nasty) as well as their own beer tent
Oh, and on mad Friday, if someone throws soapy water under your tyres.... don't be a girl (you know what to do).
You do need to drive down though, that is part of the fun seeing random sports cars of all ages driving about. I'll try and find the place that a friend of mine uses which worked out at £215 each for camping & food in an English run campsite. Memory serves they have their own shower blocks (public ones can get nasty) as well as their own beer tent
Oh, and on mad Friday, if someone throws soapy water under your tyres.... don't be a girl (you know what to do).