Change to camping passes
Discussion
Is nothing sacred? Why has the ACO chosen to deny me one of the greater pleasure associated with Le Mans?
I demand the return of the sticky strips on my MB camping passes. There was nothing I looked forward to more than spending three August afternoons with a Stanley Knife blade, attempting to separate faded pass from glass. A few days trying in vain to remove weapons-grade adhesive from the windshield provided valuable time to reminisce on that years race and begin to plan and imagine what might be in store the next June.
On a serious note, anyone know why they've gone to the hang-on-your-mirror style pass. It's just like that ticket thing they give you when checking in for the Chunnel. Easier to lose, have stolen etc. on my opinion.
I demand the return of the sticky strips on my MB camping passes. There was nothing I looked forward to more than spending three August afternoons with a Stanley Knife blade, attempting to separate faded pass from glass. A few days trying in vain to remove weapons-grade adhesive from the windshield provided valuable time to reminisce on that years race and begin to plan and imagine what might be in store the next June.
On a serious note, anyone know why they've gone to the hang-on-your-mirror style pass. It's just like that ticket thing they give you when checking in for the Chunnel. Easier to lose, have stolen etc. on my opinion.
No it won't be because apparently they will have RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tags concealed in them. Mr Frenchy will then scan every car going into the campsite so if you give it to your mate it will be scanned and Mr Frenchy man will be told that car is already in the campsite. Then he'll attack said bloke and said car with all the onions and baguettes he can get his hands on.
mikey_p said:
No it won't be because apparently they will have RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tags concealed in them. Mr Frenchy will then scan every car going into the campsite so if you give it to your mate it will be scanned and Mr Frenchy man will be told that car is already in the campsite. Then he'll attack said bloke and said car with all the onions and baguettes he can get his hands on.
Given the look of the Mr Frenchies manning the gates at BSJ last year, you could probably ride in on an elephant wearing a pink frilly dress shouting "It's all right, I'm with the circus", and they'd still let you in...
What type of pass do the Pikes have? Lets face it in this life the honest people have all these pi#s you off rules put in place, and Pikies and other low life scum just break the FN lot 
I can see a lot of people being in trouble if they have a convertible and the winds a bit gusty. Hopefully I'll just be able to stow it in a lanyard round my neck with the rest of my tickets. I've done the old holding it up to the light trick and there doesn't seem to be anything embedded in the paper. They do have a largish barcode on the bottom though, so maybe they will scan us in and out. Barcodes, RFID tags etc., it all sounds very Orwellian. They'll be putting an unscaleable, barb-wire topped, concrete barricade around MB next..... Oh they already did.
Oh, well, if it keeps the light of finger, and the ticket dodging riff-raff out then I'll be happy.
Oh, well, if it keeps the light of finger, and the ticket dodging riff-raff out then I'll be happy.
I did post about the passes earlier but to recap I was in a bar with the man who prints all the tickets for the ACO. They are determined to stamp out pass abuse and last years tickets had a bar code on them but it was a false one as they were in the process of setting up the system. A while back I went to the ACO and asked if the system was going to be in place this year and they assured me that it would. They were just finishing the final testing of the system. It works on the simple system of recognising the bar code and thereby showing that there is already a car in the site. When you go out it resets to zero. Duplicate the pass and try and get in at your peril. The system will show a car is already in the site and you will be refused entry.
Anyway, scraping off the pass with a Stanley knife?
I don't think my perspex screen would like that much
Anyway, scraping off the pass with a Stanley knife?
I don't think my perspex screen would like that muchGassing Station | Le Mans | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff