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That's a shame for undoz... I wonder if anyone here or at CA needs a Houx ticket?
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Dani I hope you at least get your money back, and i am sorry for anyone who's hopes are dashed so close to the event lets hope undoz makes it next year. In four weeks we will all be there and the race will have been on for 4 hours
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Come on now, don't wish it away - it'll be here soon enough!
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Hi Guys
I am all but complete for my trip in just under 1 month's time. I am missing 1 last accessory and where better to ask advice I believe I need one of these http://www.amazon.co.uk/European-Cam...4131226&sr=8-2 Is this the right sort of thing I will need to hook up at the campsite (Houx)? If so then great if not please point me in the right direction to the right item, and I will buy you a beer if you are at Le Mans! |
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In about 2 weeks, I will attend my first 24 Heures du Mans. It wasn't a spur of the moment decision.
I was just 16 years old in 1970 when ABC's Wide World of Sports first broadcast some of the race live in the U.S. I don't have a specific memory of that broadcast, but that was one of my favorite shows and I'm sure that broadcast was what first kindled my interest in Le Mans. My next memory of Le Mans is 1974. I was a 20-year old foreign exchange student living with a French family in Blois (about 80 miles SE of Le Mans). The father of my French family, Paul, loved to take me and his family on Sunday drives to interesting places in the region. One Sunday we loaded up his Renault 4 and drove all the way to Le Mans. We drove on the public roads that make up most of Le Circuit de la Sarthe and I think we visited some part of the closed track. Anyway, I was impressed and I vowed to come back for the race someday. The next year, I went back to France as a student, but I wasn't there in June for the race. I didn't return to France for 18 years, until 1993 when I rekindled my love affair with the country, its language and its people. Since then I have traveled to France a dozen times or so, but never at the right time to catch the race. In recent years, one thing that kept me from planning a trip to the race was a conflict with the F1 race in Montreal. Depending on the year, Le Mans and Montreal usually take place a week apart. I attended the Montreal GP in 1995 and then each year from 2000-2008. Though it wasn't so much a love of F1 that kept me coming back to Montreal, as much as a love of Montreal itself. Despite my devotion to Montreal's race weekend, my interest in Le Mans grew along with the extensive live coverage of the race on the Speed channel. I read a lot about the race (here and elsewhere on the Web) and started collecting 1/43 scale models of famous Le Mans cars. I also remember being in Paris in mid May of 2001 and seeing a giant ad poster for the race (featuring a Bentley) and thinking to myself: "I have to go there." In 2009, when Bernie Ecclestone tried to blackmail the city of Montreal and then took away its race, I should have planned a trip to Le Mans. But it didn't happen. Of course, Bernie eventually had to eat crow and give the race back to one of F1's best host cities. In January, I was ready to plan a return trip to Montreal. Then one snowy day in February, I suddenly changed my mind. I decided that I had postponed my pilgrimage to Le Mans long enough. The hell with Bernie and F1--I could always go back to Montreal easily enough in the future. This is the year of Le Mans. I joined the ACO and ordered my tickets directly from the ticket office. I leave for Europe May 31. I plan to spend several days with a friend in Germany where we'll make a lesser pilgrimage to visit the Mercedes and Porsche museums in Stuttgart. Then I head for Blois to visit members of my French "family" for a few days during the week before the race. Unfortunately Paul, my French "father" and the man who introduced me to Le Mans, is no longer with us. Too bad, because I would have loved to go to the race with him. I move to Paris on Thursday of the race weekend where I will be joined by my friend from Germany. We'll stay in a hotel next to the Gare Monparnasse and commute back and forth to Le Mans on the TGV Friday, Saturday and Sunday (train reservations made online through Raileurope.com). So there it is, a dream some 40 years in the making. I'm pretty sure that it will prove to be one worth waiting to fulfill. |
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Super post Bob - and there is no doubt to me that you've made the right choice. I'm sure you're going to have a fantastic time - and you can raise a glass to your 'père' in the right spirit! Make sure you join us for the Ten Tenths meet!
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Quite uncanny, Bob. Your "relationship" with the race closely follows my own, although mine began with a newspaper headline in 1955 and my interest in F1 began to wane around 1970. Following a visit to the city on holiday in 1973, I finally made it to the race in 1985 and haven't looked back since!
It's great that you will finally make it to the race. Life will never be the same again. Have a great time. |
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Bob, go with eyes wide open, assume nothing, go with the flow - and drink in the atmosphere of the greatest race in the world!!!! The wait will have been worth it!
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Great post Bob! If you can get yourself to the start/finish line for the race start, and watch and listen those 55 machines roar by, it will make your long wait all seem worth it. Do come along to our meeting as well! I didn't really know anyone when I first went to Le Mans last year but everyone was really nice!
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For the start the main straight will be packed and unless you get there in plenty of time your view will be not that great, I suggest you head up towards the dunlop bridge the first action starts there as the cars are all together and the noise deafening, and they all have to negogiate the first series of bends. You will never see 55 cars all trying to get through at the same time again. |
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Personally I love the start out at Arnage; the peace and quiet of a little campsite in rural France suddenly shattered as if Mt St Helens had just erupted. You can hear the cars screaming towards you for miles and the burst of noise as they finally emerge from behind the trees is spectacular.
Erm, yes, despite not planning to as late as a few weeks ago, I will be back at Le Mans this summer. My seventh visit and, with a kid on the way, quite possibly my last for some time. It's my first visit since 2007 and my first visit to a race anywhere in two years. If the weather is anything like it has been this weekend I can't wait!! |
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tonight in two weeks time we will be in our way, arrival wednesday early in the morning!
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Another irritating new-to-le-mans question before i panic myself over it.
Anyone got any idea how much electric cable length you need for houx? We have just over 25m and I'd like to think that's enough but I'm dreading getting there and finding myself too short. Any ideas? |
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