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21 Jan 2014, 17:50 (Ref:3356774) | #1 | ||
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Get an Arnage/Mulsanne parking pass anyway - cheap as chips and should get you access to the first car park during the race.
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Having an Arnage/Mulsanne Car Park pass is no guarantee of a parking place in the first car park at busy times. If you want to avoid a walk, get there early or get your driver to drop you off outside the entrance while he continues to the overflow. It's simply first come - first served. Once the car park is full, you have to use the overflow. If you must park at Arnage however, it's worth buying your ticket in advance. For 25 years I always bought my ticket on the gate, but in 2012 they stopped selling them on the gate and didn't initially have any at the Arnage entrance! I don't know what the situation was last year becasue I bought my car park ticket in advance. |
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I too would like advise on the best spots for watching the parade. My only other time we were in a covered area about 100 meters from the finish. Not a bad spot but crowded. I've seen pictures of a grassy hill where you can sit and watch the parade if you don't mind not being close enough to reach out and shake hands with the drivers or get some free stuff. Does anyone know where that hillside is? Maybe one of you Le Mans regulars who likes to put viewing or photo taking locations of the circuit on google maps wouldn't mind doing the same for the parade route??? |
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Just set the GPS to 'Saint Saturnin'. It is a small village and you cannot miss the carshow. The crowd there is very nice and quiet. If your wife is startled by them, she should not leave the house at all, because it won't get better than that. You just have to turn up. People will direct the nice cars into the festival, and the normal cars like yours and mine into a different parking lot.
I guess 10-11 is the best time, spend a few hours there and then go to the pitwalk. But each to their own of course. |
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Awesome! Thanks! Officially on the list of things to do now!
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The Classic British welcome as it is called gets bigger every year, it is really one of the best French/Anglo bits of organisation there has ever been, plenty to do and very friendly, it forms part of the whole 24 hour event now, the cars used in the drivers parade assemble there on friday afternoon so that is a good time but the village was not really ready for how popular it has become. The show car parks are in the school fields and hard area's and if you turn up in a old car or something interesting then you will be allowed in those area's but they get full very quickly now so you might be sent to the ordinary car parks, but those car parks can also get full. The village streets are usually turned into a one way system to help traffic and local helpers do all they can to make the event run smoothly, if you do go be prepared to spend hours looking in the show car parks the range of cars is amazing and plenty of owners prepared to tell you about them and in the school itself are the featured cars which this year will be porsche so expect cars that actually raced at Le mans and old drivers aswell. Some food stalls, beer and champagne stands and various trade stands, but all the time you are there new cars arrive as others leave. Getting there is easy and you will see signs for it on your way to le mans.
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Well they have not invited me yet but i was in some of the official photo's on the CBW web site a few years ago
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Just updated a bit on my map.
Is there really only 4 ways to cross the track? https://mapsengine.google.com/map/ed...Y.kP4YaI9BXO2M |
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Note to self: don't ask silly and simple questions at a quarter past six in the night....
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Added, Thank you I'm surprised with the distance you have to walk to get from Maison Blanche to Karting Nord, I hope a tunnel is in the plans |
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It will be my first Le Mans this year - question about grandstands.
Assuming you have a ticket for a grandstand (or even if you don't), in the middle of the night when most of them are empty can you get in to other grandstands? |
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If you've ever been to Silverstone, you'd kill for "only" 4 crossings... |
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There is also road tunnel under TR corner that you use to get to the green campsites and the same at the porsche curves for the campsites there.
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Thanks for the map CDT! Are pedestrians not allowed to access the tunnel under the Mulsanne near the football stadium?
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I did not know there was one
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Here: https://www.google.de/maps/@47.96142...uaWoDWxN5A!2e0
Pretty sure you can, although I've never done so. We parked once at the football stadium to watch at Tertre Rouge, but we came from the other direction (Karting / Houx). |
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