le Mans.....

[stuey]

I'm going at last this year .... !!!! .. Booked with Team Langoustine and going with a group of about twenty or so other cars. It's gonna be huge fun..


Anyone else planning on making the trip ?

[stuey]

Well Peugeot won.. !!!!! Beating the all conquering Audi

The 908 HDi FAP came in 1st & 2nd place, Audi R15 HDi coming in 3rd and the V12 Aston Martin Lola 4th being the quickest petrol car..

Essex Porsche won LMP2 and Corvette claimed victory in the GT1 class.

This was the first time I went and I can hugely recommend it to any true car or motorsport fan. The event in itself is amazing, the track stunning, but also the run down through france, the cars you see, the vistors lunacy and the general party madness atmosphere is what it's about.. definately hoping to go next year..

We convoyed down Thursday morning early and came back Monday.. Our group was:
Porsche 944 convertible
BMW 530 V8
TVR Chimeara
Ariel Atom 1
Ariel Atom 300 supercharged
Ford F150 'Harley davidson' truck
TVR Tuscan RR
TVR Tuscan 2
Chevy Camaro (me)
Toyota Supra TT
Ferrari 355
Vauxhall VX220 turbo


our camp with the track 150 yds behind.. loud madness


this guy drove this 400 miles each way to Le Mans


Gulf bus


Team Allegro



Driving on the Mulsanne straight day before the race


Mulsanne fun n' games


Aston Martin Lola front end during pit walk on friday


View from outside our campsite


Night racing


Waiting for the return ferry

[elnevio]

Great pics Stu! Liking the craziness, and the Delta in the last pic!

[Nick Mann]

This is on my to do list. Some old friends were going to do it last year, but with Vicky being pregnant and going self employed I dropped out. So did a couple of others for various reasons and it fell through.

One day we will get there though! Thanks for the photos - it's very motivational!

[Davezj]

yes it is great fun to go there, i would love to do it again. went with a few friend many fears ago. doing it again would be great.

[Mark 4]

I went a few years ago when the Jags won. That was cool.

Planning to go next year with the folks, looking forward to it.