So how was it?

[Davey S2]

For those of us who didn't make it this year. What was it like?

More chavs? Better race? Decent weather? Friday shennanigans at Houx roundabout?

Let's have the details!

[andypowell]

and the photos of all of the above!

[JButler]

Id say it was no worse than normal for general trouble making, I suppose there is no going away from it. I may just be old fashioned. The race itself was great, the last hour being fantastic. The weather was probably the best ive ever seen there, I got burnt to a crisp! Got about 1500 photos, no looking forward to editing them all!

[tvrman]

Best ever......

[xllifts]

Stayed with Team Langoustine, and have to sat in 20 plus years of Le mans it was the best experience.

VERY WELL DONE TO TEAM LANGOUSTINE!

Thanks Pete and Andy top week.

Dave and Hannah

[chimtvr]

I would have said loads better on the chav front but a lot quieter I had a great time

[Garlick]

I thought the chav element was low this year. Arnage was fun to drive through instead of annoying, and I heard Houx was quiet too. Overall it was a great LM, but there seemed to be slightly less Brit LMers than usual on the drive down.

Great to see so many PH stickers and T's around the place. to all of you.....a few dodgy rip- offs too (letters are in the post)

Highlights:

Meeting loads of new and old friends

PH campsite BBQ on Friday night

Weather

Waddington Minge & Seymour Vadge.

10.45 outward ferry crossing queue conversations/ laughs

Avoiding RWR rules (again)

Being asked if I'd raced my car in Le Mans race when boarding ferry home in the Focus RS

Catapaults and air raid sirens

Slide show of girlie pics on the side of a Sprinter van

Gulf bus and the top lads who were behind building it.

British welcome and PH Mulsanne meetings.

My rather spacious tent

A few laps on Tony H's go-ped.

Arnage curves

Aston garage tour...and pitlane noise

Blaming Mr Will for everything

Corvette noise

N138 drive there and back

Peugeot pit lane calamity

Reverse bungee (x 5)

Too many to mention them all

[Stuart]

Garlick said:

Reverse bungee (x 5)

5 in the end?!

I've just been watching the video of you and I on it and I felt like dry heaving at the memory of it.

[jazzdevil]

chimtvr said:

I would have said loads better on the chav front but a lot quieter I had a great time

Yeah, a definite reduction in numpty-numbers... priced out by Euro/Pound rate this year? In fact probably a reduction in numbers all together - nothing like as busy as I remember '06 and '07 being?

Much quieter & certainly nowt doing at Houx roundabout, it's very odd down there now with a vastly reduced in size campsite, the new Bugatti Circuit banking and a huge main gate.

Only say 4 PH Le Mans tees all weekend - and i was wearing one of them! Far fewer stickered up cars this year too I thought.

Oh, and superior weather too (wouldn't be British if that wasn't mentioned )

Edited by jazzdevil on Monday 15th June 08:52

[moribund]

Only 4 PH tee's? I saw LOADS. Thought it was excellent this year, great racing plus an unexpected highlight for me was being directed into the "show" area of the Great British Welcome instead of the spectator part. Only wish I'd cleaned the campsite mud off my car first

[Stuart]

moribund said:

Only 4 PH tee's? I saw LOADS. Thought it was excellent this year, great racing plus an unexpected highlight for me was being directed into the "show" area of the Great British Welcome instead of the spectator part. Only wish I'd cleaned the campsite mud off my car first

I was in Garlick's RS when we arrived at St. Saturnin and the chap on the door didn't share my view that it belonged in the display car park. The "stare straight ahead and keep driving" approach got me in...

I saw a lot of PH tees, and one particularly nasty collection of knock-off PH tees. I suppose having counterfeiters is a sign of success

[sebo]

xllifts said:

Stayed with Team Langoustine, and have to sat in 20 plus years of Le mans it was the best experience.

VERY WELL DONE TO TEAM LANGOUSTINE!

Thanks Pete and Andy top week.

Dave and Hannah

Thought TL did a fantastic job.

Are you the chap with the bashed foot? If so - hope it gets better soon!

[sebo]

Anyone see the Limo on Friday night with the blonde with modified boobies hanging out of the window around Houx? Bless the Danish lad that got a double handful...

She came back through in the front seat playing with herself... quite random but made up for not seeing the Hawaiian Tropic girls.

[moribund]

Stuart said:

I was in Garlick's RS when we arrived at St. Saturnin and the chap on the door didn't share my view that it belonged in the display car park. The "stare straight ahead and keep driving" approach got me in...

Welllll....it IS just a Focus.....

Glad you made it in, it was good to see

[Hole Digga]

had a really good time overall.

+
Great weather (once wednesday was over)
Better campsite facilities than last year
Cold beer and nice food
Good racing
Aston Martin noise
Getting out of the campsite at the end only took 45 mins instead of the usual 2hrs+

-
Some thieving pikey maggot nicked my wallet out of my tent while I was asleep on saturday night
Not bothered about the money but loads of hassle replacing all the cards etc, etc inside
Was it quieter again this year or is it just me???

Edited by Hole Digga on Monday 15th June 22:34

[anonymous-user]

About half a dozen chavs late teens,(most with their tops off) walking under the tunnel near the pits threw a firecracker/banger type firework. These are the ones you throw on the ground and make a bang. The idiots did this twice, the second time they threw it in front of a guided tour by Hankook.
It could have caused someone hearing damage.


It ashamed me to find out.

1. They were English.
2. Two of the group who found this funny were wearing Pistonheads T-Shirts (one of them wrapped around their waist).

[flattotheboards]

That was my first (of many) Le Mans, what an absolutely fabulous event!

Garlick I have a video of you doing a wheelspin on burnout alley on friday in the focus

[Garlick]

I hope those involved aren't reading this forum. They aren't real PHers, nor true LMers.

Don't bring the PH name down next time please.

[Garlick]

flattotheboards said:

Garlick I have a video of you doing a wheelspin on burnout alley on friday in the focus

It went into limp home mode after that and wouldn't perform....very embarrassing.

[bigburd]

Garlick said:

flattotheboards said:

Garlick I have a video of you doing a wheelspin on burnout alley on friday in the focus

It went into limp home mode after that and wouldn't perform....very embarrassing.

Rumour has it that this is not the first time you've entered Limp Mode