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On a similar note...
In 2000 I was there with a friend early in the week. He has a very nice 289 Cobra replica and wanted a picture of it on the start finish line. During the day on Wednesday we spotted the gates onto to the track by Maison Blanche were open and sneaked in - though you can hardly sneak anywhere with a Cobra! We drove through the Ford chicane, past the mildy confused workers painting the rumble strips and got the photos. However by then the gate was closed and we were stuck! A friendly American in the pits after observing, 'You're not meant to be here are you!', let us into the pitlane and from there we made our way out through the pits to freedom.
The interesting thing is that once you are in an area you aren't meant to be in, people assume that as you are there it is okay. Later on foot, we found an open gate from the pitlane grandstand into the pits. Then we just turned our passes back to front and spent a couple of hours watching the teams preparing. The Panoz team were doing practice driver and wheel changes right in front of us. One poor sod kept getting it wrong, and was being shunned by the rest of the team! It is all very relaxed until practice starts on Wednesday, shame I will miss it all this year - the 3 day coach trip has been booked again...
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