So which PH'ers were at Le Mans then?

[minidiva]

I saw loads of Elises at Le Mans last weekend and lots of PH stickers & t-shirts, so I'm surprised there's not been many threads about it yet, so I thought I'd start one.

I saw quite a few parked in the Verte car park - one of which was heartbreakingly covered in dust - see pics below calling just1 - this will horrify you.

Spotted:

group of 3 elises - 2xS2's & 1xS1(blue i think) camping under some trees up near the Bugatti circuit

1xS2 under a nice cover & 1XS1 parked together in the Verte camping quite close to the track.

A group of S2's parked up - we were walking past and this guy was holding his head in his hands - oopsie, someone had just locked their keys in the boot! I offered my key but it didn't work then a few other keys appeared - still no joy. In the end they just pulled the boot up which i think pulled the lock out - saw it later stuck up with green tape.

A few elises parked up in the campsite over the fun-fair side of the circuit.

Red S2 on one of the main roads out of Le Mans on Sunday lunch/afternoon doing a U-turn - think they might have had as much trouble as we did navigating out of there with no map!

Titanium S1 (sounded lovely) flew past me then was driving along in front of me, driving with a noisy Triumph on the roads towards Caen.

A couple of Blue S2's driving around Le Mans centre.

and then this very very very dusty S2.

I didn't see any exiges on my travels although I know there was another Orange S2 there as twinpipe & speedyellow spotted it on their way back on Monday.

There were loads of dusty cars and many people found it entertaining to write in the dust - Oh I wish these people would realise that it will probably scratch the paint. There was a rather lovely Aston which had writing all over the bonnet in the dust. Someone will be busy with the t-cut when they get home.

Oh, and there was an enormous group of TVR's -never seen so many in my life, in fact I think all of the UK TVR's were there - the ones that weren't broken that weekend anyway. There were quite a few PH stickers on them too.

Anyone on here then???

Edited by minidiva on Wednesday 21st June 10:42

[cej]

wow,if I'm ever going to Le Mans, it not going to me in my 'liz

[simonk]

Me!!!!

Didnt spot anyone from here though.

Had a bit of a nightmare trip down. Left here at 530am and didnt get there til about 2am! We had a great cross country drive down through france until with 25 miles to go one of the caterfields blew up. We were all full with our own luggage so getting everything and everyone there and the car recovered was a challenge to say the least! AA sorted it all the next day though and provided a hire car right through to dover. Had a great time though and a more successful trip home on monday.

Simon

[bogie]

we were there but on Airtrack secure campsite so you wouldnt have been able to walk past the cars ....another top LeMans even if I was driving the support vehicle

lots of threads on PH forums under "Le Mans".........

[cheekymonkey]

I was there well you know that Mini as I saw you. I saw sooo many other elises, including the batmobile, D4VKC as a couple i recognised.

Our carpark at our villa was pretty special...

Me (111s)
360 stradale (loudest thing other than an F1 car I've ever heard
360 spider
GT3 RS
Boxster s
M5 (this is a seeeeerious wolf in sheeps clothing)
RS4 with RS6 turbos
(cant see in the pic but lots of bikes...)
2 x R1
R6
Blade
SP1




Our villa was also pretty special.... we caused sooo much havoc here, we found loads of old flares so kept setting those off at stupid o'clock each night while battered! we cleared all the debris off the weir (sounded like a good idea after 10 hrs of drinking)

Looking for a place for next year back in town with a pool




Also some 1st's for me were...

Going on the back of an R6... hit 145MPH in shorts & t-shirt never again....

Also got to ride the R6... now bear in mind this is the 1st time i've ridden a bike... it was AMAZING very, very tempting as performance is unreal. Hit 100MPH and got so scared

Saw a few stunning Ultima's and decided I need to work towards getting one for next year. One of the guys in the group has just bought his dad one and I learnt a lot about them.

Saw this little beauty tucked away...




Finally I drove the socks off my little car. Against some serious line up in our group it held it's own pretty well except on the big motoway sections. Up to 80 / 90 there was pretty much nothing in it but I topped out at ... well i can't really say here, but let's say it was just off the max on the speedo!!! All the guys in the group loved the Elise. I've also NEVER had sooooo many pictures taken of my car. Everywhere i went someone Papped me

Found some amazing country roads near where we were staying and had fabulous fun driving back and forth through the technical sections, chicanes etc. The roads are so quiet in late evening I really got to puch the car hard. Picked up some minging road kill though.... this was the best.... how the hell it got under the windscreen wiper, backwards i have no idea!!



Hope to see some more of you next year! I know I'll be there.

[minidiva]

Euugh, yuk! What a picture of your apartment car park cheeky - very hollywood, you posh gits!

We managed to find some fantastic roads on the way there - I wouldn't even attempt leaving the beaten track though without GPS - the french roads are insanely convoluted and very easy to get lost on - I managed to get lost on main roads!!

I'd love to go next year with a bit of preparation (i.e. not going on the spur of the moment even though it was great to be spontaneous)and not having to blag our way into one of the main campsites with no pass - we managed it though - I'd love to get a nice air conditioned apartment with a pool and go and have a hoon around the Houx Annexe roundabout or whatever it is - that looked pretty mad from the pics I've seen. Oh and I'd make sure I took all my documents with me - very innocently naive I didn't take any documents with me apart from my passport & driving license. We were lucky when we got stopped that we didn't get stung with a fine! We were good boys & girls though and didn't go silly!

[Sam_68]

I was there, but since the roads down are all arrow straight and once there you do little but crawl along in heavy traffic, I took the company car instead of the Liz.

Carries more beer and makes you immune to the tw@ts with water pistols, too.

[Davey S2]

I was there in the Exige.

[///m-power]

I was in the black exige S2 with GT3 stripes and batman logos on the doors.

Thoroughly enjoyed the weekend and spotted quite a few of you guys.

[kevin ritson]

Did a Friday to Monday trip in convoy with an Audi'd S1 and a Caterham. Took in some fantastic roads around the Northern coast then down to LM. Camped at a site in Beaumont-Sur-Sarthe and tagged onto a group of people in Houx Annexe for the Saturday night partying. Got straight in and out of the circuit with no problems and had a cracking weekend

[stampede]

kevin ritson said:

Did a Friday to Monday trip in convoy with an Audi'd S1 and a Caterham. Took in some fantastic roads around the Northern coast then down to LM. Camped at a site in Beaumont-Sur-Sarthe and tagged onto a group of people in Houx Annexe for the Saturday night partying. Got straight in and out of the circuit with no problems and had a cracking weekend

Was it the site by the river? If so great place. May a Sunday evening spent swimming in the Sarthe.

It's only the fifth time in 20 years that I haven't stayed there (didn't get a pass out this year).

Great bar in the square to sit and watch everyone hooning to the ferry on Suday night, and a lovely little restaurant at the other end of the high street.

S690

[ChristianM]

Wasn't in the Elise but saw Simon's car parked up on the way to crawling through the woods to get to the mulsane, saw cheekymonkey driving through Arnage and saw what could have been minidiva's car parked somewhere - not bad but never actually managed to speak to any of you!

First time at le mans and we got lost on the way there but took in some fantastic country roads, will def be taking the elise next year, the whole event was fantastic. If you read up on it you can pick your campsite and pitch so to avoid dust covered cars.

[twinpipe]

Cheekymonkey - Car park looks wicked, Porker looks well with stripe and no. is he keeping it?
Who took the Kubota? Top left of pic.....Nice

Edited by twinpipe on Thursday 22 June 16:14

[philygumbo]

minidiva said:

I'd love to go next year with a bit of preparation (i.e. not going on the spur of the moment even though it was great to be spontaneous)and not having to blag our way into one of the main campsites with no pass - we managed it though - I'd love to get a nice air conditioned apartment with a pool and go and have a hoon around the Houx Annexe roundabout or whatever it is - that looked pretty mad from the pics I've seen. Oh and I'd make sure I took all my documents with me - very innocently naive I didn't take any documents with me apart from my passport & driving license. We were lucky when we got stopped that we didn't get stung with a fine! We were good boys & girls though and didn't go silly!

I think part of the fun is camping, the race is where the camp sites are not in your appartment or hotel room. Mind you most of the attendees would say "Race, What race?"
Living rough in a tent, building a beer wall, being bladderd all weekend, childish behaviour, its all part of the fun. SELOC go to Houx Annex every year and pics can be found on the SELOC site.
Also worth a view is ...
www.beermountain.com/
Phil.

[cheekymonkey]

twinpipe said:

Cheekymonkey - Car park looks wicked, Porker looks weel with stripe and no. is he keeping it?
Who took the Kubota? Top left of pic.....Nice

you mean the other left??

Nah think the stripe is coming off, mine will all be off this weekend I expect, gets too much attention from the BiB !

[Nick J]

I was there, saw loads to Lotus, everyone let on when they saw me which was pretty cool.

Nick

[twinpipe]

Yeah that top left.. on the right hand side!!!!! It's just above the bottom.

[shnozz]

Davey S2 said:

I was there in the Exige.

I was with Dave in the Exige. In fact, parked just opposite this car from the first post!

[D4V KC]

I was there But I do admit that these very clean pictures were taken before setting off to France!



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[cheekymonkey]

D4V KC said:

I was there

I did spot the car a couple of times driving about, yes it did get progressivly grubbier as the days went by