Thanks from the Classic British Welcome - St Sat. - Le Mans
Discussion
A note to thank all the PH guys for coming to St Saturnin in Le Mans last Friday for their Friday Service.
A great turn out and some incredible cars.
We hope you will come back next year and we will work with James and the PH team to try to improve access, parking and departure. Thanks for baring with us when the weather turned a bit wet after lunch and all of our team hope to see you in 2016.
We formally announce our our 2016 theme in France in January, but as usual I will be giving the UK a early note of the plans for next year before Xmas.
Thanks again and look forward to talking to James in the near future about the PH plans for 2016.
Dave Williams
Vice President
Classic British Welcome
A great turn out and some incredible cars.
We hope you will come back next year and we will work with James and the PH team to try to improve access, parking and departure. Thanks for baring with us when the weather turned a bit wet after lunch and all of our team hope to see you in 2016.
We formally announce our our 2016 theme in France in January, but as usual I will be giving the UK a early note of the plans for next year before Xmas.
Thanks again and look forward to talking to James in the near future about the PH plans for 2016.
Dave Williams
Vice President
Classic British Welcome
Wow, some great feedback and ALL of it is appreciated . . the good and the bad.
We have a debriefing meeting this week and I will take all the points to be addressed.
Our restriction is road access (entry and leaving) and we also can only work with authorisation from the good old Gendarmerie (hmmm) . .. which is not easy.
We have around 140 volunteers on site for the Friday and all of them give their time free on the day and many to set up on Thursday and remove everything on Friday evening . . regardless of the weather.
We will never get everything 100% right but we will try to do the best we can every year and make the event better (not necessarily bigger!) every year.
I can empathise with any traffic issues . .. it took me 2 hours to do the last mile to get into the circuit on Saturday morning . .. and the ACO pay their traffic chaps and have large carparks and the full support for the Gendarmerie .. . the excuse I heard was the arrival of the President . . not sure anyone would believe that.
Always willing to listen to an idea or an opinion . . the CBW is an event for you and the local community and will remain FREE. We sincerely hope PH will hold their Friday service with us in 2016.
Regards
Dave Williams
Classic British Welcome
Vice President
We have a debriefing meeting this week and I will take all the points to be addressed.
Our restriction is road access (entry and leaving) and we also can only work with authorisation from the good old Gendarmerie (hmmm) . .. which is not easy.
We have around 140 volunteers on site for the Friday and all of them give their time free on the day and many to set up on Thursday and remove everything on Friday evening . . regardless of the weather.
We will never get everything 100% right but we will try to do the best we can every year and make the event better (not necessarily bigger!) every year.
I can empathise with any traffic issues . .. it took me 2 hours to do the last mile to get into the circuit on Saturday morning . .. and the ACO pay their traffic chaps and have large carparks and the full support for the Gendarmerie .. . the excuse I heard was the arrival of the President . . not sure anyone would believe that.
Always willing to listen to an idea or an opinion . . the CBW is an event for you and the local community and will remain FREE. We sincerely hope PH will hold their Friday service with us in 2016.
Regards
Dave Williams
Classic British Welcome
Vice President
All good ideas DS240. Thanks for taking the time to give it some thought and make some notes.
We invited caterers to provide more further up towards the top but running power was an issue to them.
However we met with the main caterer last week and it looks like they will provide something further up next year.
I have suggested bacon baguettes in the morning!
We have to pay for any assistance from the police . .. not easy to get them to commit to any help, so that is not easy.
Regarding music, I changed the band this year and have been looking for others to contribute, but there are some strict rules about musicians performing here in France and they all want paying and are not cheap . .. we don't have the budget for much more. I tried to get UK visitors to perhaps join in last year but no takers . . offer is still there!
Regarding stalls, we invite all local businesses (most are local) to take advantage of the number of visitors. ... it's the Brits that spend money and not the French (don't tell them I said that!!).
The site is not ours, so we can't make any physical changes, but we will always try to make the best of what we have.
I will stick my nose into this whole subject next year and hope we can improve things and listen to all the suggestions.
Thanks
Dave W
We invited caterers to provide more further up towards the top but running power was an issue to them.
However we met with the main caterer last week and it looks like they will provide something further up next year.
I have suggested bacon baguettes in the morning!
We have to pay for any assistance from the police . .. not easy to get them to commit to any help, so that is not easy.
Regarding music, I changed the band this year and have been looking for others to contribute, but there are some strict rules about musicians performing here in France and they all want paying and are not cheap . .. we don't have the budget for much more. I tried to get UK visitors to perhaps join in last year but no takers . . offer is still there!
Regarding stalls, we invite all local businesses (most are local) to take advantage of the number of visitors. ... it's the Brits that spend money and not the French (don't tell them I said that!!).
The site is not ours, so we can't make any physical changes, but we will always try to make the best of what we have.
I will stick my nose into this whole subject next year and hope we can improve things and listen to all the suggestions.
Thanks
Dave W
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