Lemans: the final countdown

[Jonny69]

Right guys, 22 hrs 33 minutes until I leave and counting. Excitement is brewing. Hard.

You can find me easily if you're going as the guys have pitched up our campsite already. It's in the Tertre Rouge campsite which is the one you pass on your left as you walk up to the Tertre Rouge bend at the top of the Mulsanne Straight.

Here's the team flag which will be flying:

...and it's right next to a grandstand. We have a 9 metre marquee and there will be lots of noise and drinking going on from all 22 of us, so if you're passing climb up the fence and give me a shout

No cars of interest but I have my jet scooter there, a blue chopped down cruiser bike which I will be using to get about, possibly with a flamthrower on the back and a unicycle so if you see a silly bloke on either of them give me a shout too.

I'm going to put in some serious effort to try and find you guys that are going and I've downloaded maps of all the campsites so leave a note here if you're reading and hopefully we'll bump into each other! I'm there from midnight Wednesday and leaving sometime Monday, and will be at a cafe on the corner of the roundabout at Arnage on Sunday evening. Might take the bike/scooter/jet/flamethrower down there, haven't decided yet...

 

[Jonny69]

Don't worry M you're in good company, I am a serious 80's cheesaholic

I think my ferry is going from Poole and we arrive in France at about 11pm

Edit: btw anyone going, my email is in my trust. Email me if you want my phone number or if you want to give me yours. We can text and meet up

 

[Jonny69]

Don't know if you'll get this in time but there's a new road opened that bypasses all the old crap that used to take ages. I think it's a Peage road and it takes you basically all the way down to Rouens. You still have to fight your way through the traffic at Rouens but it should shave quite a lot of time off the total journey which used to be a pig.

My boat is a big floaty thing leaving Poole at about 5 tomorrow. I'm in a black Skoda Octavia, wearing a blue flowery shirt and I'm going to be DRUNK

 

[Jonny69]

No idea I'm afraid, I just know there's a new road, we're not going that way this year

 

[Jonny69]

Aye, me too

 

[Jonny69]

Whoa, awesome week away! Got back late last night. Race was great, spoiled a bit by the whole Audi promo thing taking the whole circuit over but otherwise awesome. Privateer team Pescarolo came VERY close behind the lead Audi despite having 250hp less and running on less than a tenth of the Audi's 70,000,000 Euro budget (yes that's seventy million) so nearly spoiled their weekend!

Had my bike and a motorised scooter nicked but spotted the bike on someone else's campsite and ended up with 17 of us, angry and baying for a ruck going over to 'liberate' our belongings. Turned out the bike had just been dumped there and there was a hole in the fence where scum were breaking in and theiving.

Spotted Cassius Clarke setting up camp with a lack of beer crisis. Serious set of Porsches on his camp

I got no pictures at all but I'm rounding some up and a video of the pulsejet scooter running in the campsite. Awesome noise and a crowd of about 100 people standing in a circle watching

 

[Jonny69]

cerebal palsy so effects my ability to walk quite badly.

Yeah I can see that being a problem at lemans since everywhere is a long walk One of the guys on my camp had a petrol scooter with a low seat on it that would definitely get you around well if you are able to put your feet down and hold yourself up when stationary. They weigh about 20kg and all the weight is at the bottom, cost about £150. The only thing is a tank of gas doesn't get you very far and it's a pullstart.

 

[Jonny69]

Heheheh, sounds like my first year down there. Near death experience in a Lotus Elise, heavily filled pants etc, 3-car across undertaking in hard shoulder, but you only live once eh?

And there's no way the French police would ever catch you in those knackered old Citroens anyway

 

[Jonny69]

Scamming French copper gits!

Dead Dog, nah the fairground was gone this year to make space for a concert arena. What? There's a race going on for gawds sake, what do we need crappy live French music for? The other fairground that used to be inside the circuit is now down by the start/finish line but no sign of the killer gokart track. Shame, that used to provide me with ages of entertainment along with the spinning barrel with all the drunk guys trying to walk through it

 

[Jonny69]

Lol, there was a bunch of strange French rappers on at one point