[LM24] Addicted, How Many of You?

[whitemr2]

Hi All,
Since last June, I think I've visited the forum every day!!! I'm adicted to LM 24 and everything you guys write. Should I worry or go to rehab..... Hope I'm not the only one. How many of you guys visit so often or am I just a little crazy with nothing else to do in my spare free time!!!!!!??

[vincegail]

Everybody reluctant to answer???

Wouldn't say I come here every day, but 5 out 7 is the minimum I guess.
So yes, you could say I'm addicted!
But then, I should also be addicted to several other sites of the ones I visit on a regular basis.

[Le Vieux]

Addicted to the site? Not quite. Like Vincegail, I'm here perhaps five days out of seven on average.

As to the race: 2013 will be my 28th LM - preparations are already underway. I have memories going back to the Fifties and Sixties of being glued to the BBC Light Programme waiting for race updates in the Sports News, and of finding an excuse to travel through Le Mans whilst on holiday in France in the Seventies.

There are probably many other visitors to this site who can demonstrate a greater involvement.

Addicted? No, of course not........!

[GT6]

well now addicted is a little strong, but yes visit most days now that I am no longer at work but until the bank blocked access I was in this site everyday and actually had the site up in the background all the time, now days i do leave the site at times, as for le mans the race after almost 30 years I could give it up at any time but as I have already got my 2013 tickets it would be a waste and 2014 will be my 30 aniversary and 2015 will be, OK I could give it I just don't want to

[The Badger]

Everyday junkie .

[Simmi]

I do spend an inordinate amount of time on the forum. I'm watching old YouTube clips of past races on a near-daily basis. Got an R18 and a C9 up on the walls in my apartment. Would be intersting to hear from the veterans how old they were when they first went. I do regret now not getting out there as soon as I could drive.

[vincegail]

Originally Posted by Simmi

I do spend an inordinate amount of time on the forum. I'm watching old YouTube clips of past races on a near-daily basis. Got an R18 and a C9 up on the walls in my apartment. Would be intersting to hear from the veterans how old they were when they first went. I do regret now not getting out there as soon as I could drive.

Not that I consider myself a veteran, but slowly getting there:
I was 20 in 1996 and came by train. Never again! (the train part that is!)

[Le Vieux]

First conscious memory of the race: 7
First visit to LM 25
First visit to race 37
Next visit to race 65

[rich07]

I would call myself addicted for one of a better word.

I check this forum (the sportscar and gt subforum including this the lemans forum) everyday sometimes two or three times a day. This is where I can discuss and enjoy le mans and sportscar racing with like minded enthusiasts as none of my family or friends share my passion and interest in this.

[Aysedasi]

Addicted? You could say that. To this forum for most days in the last 11+ years. I come in here at least 4-5 times most days (thanks now to Tapatalk!). To Le Mans since I first set foot on that hallowed ground in 1986......

[GT6]

First trip in 1985 aged 25, only missed 2 since and done a fair few classic le mans as well, first year on a coach and camped ever since, been on the forum for almost seven years now visit most days

[batmobile]

Well, not difficult for me to be addicted to the 24hours and all aroundc: born in . BUT! I discovered this forum in 2004, I don't remember how .
Each day I read it, nice to read the passion around the event. Thanks to this forum, I could meet lot of fans. Come on. To be continued.

[CTD]

Originally Posted by Aysedasi

Addicted? You could say that. To this forum for most days in the last 11+ years. I come in here at least 4-5 times most days (thanks now to Tapatalk!). To Le Mans since I first set foot on that hallowed ground in 1986......

I ecco this.
I'm checking the Forum every single time I'm at my computer and there is a reply to one of my subscribed threads (that's 266 threads now!)
Otherwise Tapatalk when I'm mobile and need to kill time.
To the race itself, Tom K sparked my interest like a lot of other danes, however with the addition of Peugeot in 2007 my interest became so large that i found this glorious forum and have been addicted to the forum and the race ever since, which currently peaked this year with my first visit to Le Mans, and meeting a lot of other Ten-Tenthers who'd made my Le Mans so good, that I now fear I will never be able to top it

H*ll, I'm so addicted that the constant influence from Ten-Tenths, made me sure that i need a career in the Car business.

[isynge]

Addict? Yeah, probably. I log in pretty much daily, and in terms of obsessing about it as a sport that's a given.

Like Simmi, there's a lot of watching of old footage, and when my elderly white cat isn't monopolising my lap, then flicking through Time and Two Seats and associated photo volumes occupies a lot of evenings.

In terms of how long I've been captivated, it's been 30 years since I 'discovered' it - all driven initially by Grand Prix International's Le Mans special in 1982, where the F1 obsessed 10 year old I was saw that there was something involving a much longer track with cars that really looked incredible (late model 935s, the 956, Rondeaus, and perhaps most of all, the CK-5).

It then took a lot of time before I went to the race itself (a long story), and there have been fits and starts to my watching, but since 2007, when I went for the first time, it's become something a lot more compelling, for a whole array of reasons.

As addictions go I guess it's one of the less harmful ones.

[Bentley03]

I suspect I've gone beyond addiction, it's more a lifestyle.

[racerkeke]

"If your year goes from June to June..."
(Thanks, RLM!)
keke

[bella]

i'm not addicted, on the grounds that tenths is just a part of life. going on tenths for me is like someone sitting down to watch the news or coronation street. it just happens

but le mans could get to be a bit of a dirty secret. i can live without it, but it's a really unique event that sort of worms its way into your life without you really realising it. much like some very attractive people, if you look at its individual features in isolation it's really nothing special but as a whole it really is something spectacular. plus it's not quite so much of two sided thing as most other racing is - there's not really one side of the fence or another. really we're all on the same side, we just do different things whilst it's happening

[gregtummer]

Le Mans Is Life

[whitemr2]

So happy I'm in good company.

[GTfour]

Originally Posted by whitemr2

So happy I'm in good company.

So yes, there's this little part of obsessive addictionlike behaviour found in all us tenthers. I've long given in to it. It's like Racerkeke put's it so finely "If your year goes from June to June..."
Visiting the forum has it's on and off's. For me, the intensity of visiting rises the closer we come to the race and directly after. Lowest visit rate is 'round once a week to highest a couple of times daily the closer we get. I must say, having been a new dad takes a lot of time away from my PC...


I've had my interest arroused since I saw a very brief airing in the dutch television news of Jan Lammers' victory with Jaguar in '88. It lasted for just a couple of seconds, but the sight of this squat UFO on wheels blasting thrue the Dunlop chicane, underneath the bridge, was enough to get me wanting to know more of that great track and it's awesome cars.
Ever since then I watched the race every year and it finally took me to France in '96.
Since then, I never doughted going there and it's been my mission to bring others to whitness this greatest of races. I must've brought over 300 peeps to the place... (of which only one found it 'a bit boring'....)

[vincegail]

Originally Posted by GTfour

I must've brought over 300 peeps to the place...

Are you some kind of tour-operator???

[vincegail]

Originally Posted by GTfour

(of which only one found it 'a bit boring'....)

So 299 out of 300 found it not 'a bit boring'? Nice hitrate!

[rdjones]

I have done 8 Le Mans now, but I have not been able to make it since 2009, however I will be back in 2014, the wife has given permission, but it looks like I will have the father-in-law in tow.....

As for this Website as Ayse it's been part of my life for the last 10 or 11 year now, I don't post as much as I used to do but I do have a look to see what is going on pretty much everyday.

[GTfour]

Originally Posted by vincegail

Are you some kind of tour-operator???

LOL, well, you could sort a say that. I'm usually the one organising the tickets, picking the campsite, delegating who brings jenny's, BBQ's, flagpoles, gazebo's,etc. Mind you, there's no money making involved...

[whitemr2]

Just found out today I can't stand tekst to be dark (unread) bleu. Had a lot of reading to do after not visiting for 1 day. Keep up the good work tenthers.