Glass bottles banned at lemans, all campsites.
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TonyHetherington said:
So, we've lasted until Friday morning. We're going.
We're entering the circuit tomorrow morning and leaving the circuit after the race has finished.
My question - am I correct that there's no glass bottles in the circuit, so we should be buying lots of crates of cans now?
Thanks!
Coolio, have a good one.. maybe next year for me, and i've been promised an all areas pass !!We're entering the circuit tomorrow morning and leaving the circuit after the race has finished.
My question - am I correct that there's no glass bottles in the circuit, so we should be buying lots of crates of cans now?
Thanks!
No girls allowed!
You're not having I that badly, if they really wanted to hit you hard they'd do the same as they do for the 24hr bikes and put "Le Mans" into prohibition for the 48 hours around the race, complete prohibition as in you can't buy, posses or sell alcohol at all anywhere and I put Le Mans in brackets as it's the whole area, the circuit, town and neighbouring towns. It is of course widely flaunted and everyone stocks up in the last few hours before the ban but when it was first introduced about 10 years ago it was policed very agressively.
Having seen this thread on Tuesday before we set off we bought cans for drinking on MB.
We arrived ~18:30 Wednesday and drove in with no bottle checks.
We went for the big shop and bought more beer Thursday morning and drove back in with no bottle checks.
No-one came around the site to see what we were drinking all weekend and plenty of other pitches were openly drinking bottles/building bottle walls next to the roadways where the bicycle guides would have been sure to see them taking people to their pitches.
So...did this just get enforced on Tuesday?
We arrived ~18:30 Wednesday and drove in with no bottle checks.
We went for the big shop and bought more beer Thursday morning and drove back in with no bottle checks.
No-one came around the site to see what we were drinking all weekend and plenty of other pitches were openly drinking bottles/building bottle walls next to the roadways where the bicycle guides would have been sure to see them taking people to their pitches.
So...did this just get enforced on Tuesday?
I heard this was an extreme reaction to a bottle fight that occured during the Moto race earlier in the month.
There were some misunderstandings due to the communications with the guys on the gates for the track and the sites.
We had no trouble getting into Blue Nord, and had no problems walking round with them, saw lots of people by the track and in the tribunes drinking out of glass.
Not sure if they could enforce bottle searches at the GE gates either. Those Sarkozy sized ticket scanners made it painful enough.
There were some misunderstandings due to the communications with the guys on the gates for the track and the sites.
We had no trouble getting into Blue Nord, and had no problems walking round with them, saw lots of people by the track and in the tribunes drinking out of glass.
Not sure if they could enforce bottle searches at the GE gates either. Those Sarkozy sized ticket scanners made it painful enough.
Yeap, this seems to be a complete b-llsh-t story... Was everywhere at the event, walking openning bottle of Kronny every 20 mins or so, and some real ales that mates brought over for me. Never got stopped, hassled anything.... Lets see if this story circulates again next year.
jameshayward said:
We had no problems at all on Maison Blanche, never got searched once. On mad friday we took our coolbox through with a few bottles and still no searches.
eddie main man said:
Yeap, this seems to be a complete b-llsh-t story... Was everywhere at the event, walking openning bottle of Kronny every 20 mins or so, and some real ales that mates brought over for me. Never got stopped, hassled anything.... Lets see if this story circulates again next year.
Well you might call it a BS story but to be honest you were one of the many who didn't get searched or questioned on the way in. Just as there were many who were on the Monday and the Tuesday for certain as happened to all three in our little group. Didn’t get questioned at all on any of the other days we went in and out but by then the ‘issue’ had been dealt with.jameshayward said:
We had no problems at all on Maison Blanche, never got searched once. On mad friday we took our coolbox through with a few bottles and still no searches.
I would suggest that we ask our man on the ground in early May next year what the score is likely to be for those of us who will be returning.
Personally I can see and approve of the little glass bottles being banned from the campsites and the trackside. I love the beer walls and have helped with a fair few myself over the years but am also fed up of the knuckle draggers who leave broken glass all over the place and discard their bottles not even in a pile but wherever they happen to finish them, regardless of if that happens to be a main walkway or nearby hedge.
Thinking more about this. When the gate people approached those with bottles and said 'Sorry we have to take these away', why did those of you give them up? Didn't anyone say, no, naff off.... and a lot harsher too!! If it come down to it, just say, okay I'm leaving, leave, then return with them later... I heard the same story about the GP de France bike race, and bottle fight. The 24hrs bike race is in September. Will be interesting to see what happens on this bottle issue then. It's a known fact all the supermarkets have the beer sections coverd over, and impossible to buy. Buy as much whiskey or Ricard as you like though.....
I wonder if the timeline went something like this...
Monday - ACO ban bottles track-side/poorly communicate it to security.
Tuesday - Security get the correct message, as do the supermarkets.
Wednesday - Supermarkets have spoken to ACO re. quantity of bottled been they have just for the race and all goes quiet.
If the supermarkets are full of cans next year we will know
Monday - ACO ban bottles track-side/poorly communicate it to security.
Tuesday - Security get the correct message, as do the supermarkets.
Wednesday - Supermarkets have spoken to ACO re. quantity of bottled been they have just for the race and all goes quiet.
If the supermarkets are full of cans next year we will know
From what I heard it was the equivalent to the local mayor or similar who instigated the bottle ban not the ACO.
from what I read the ACO went straight to court to overturn the ban and reached a compromise of no glass trackside, which is why some sites were allowed initially and some were not, and obviously with circa 250,000 people going in and out was impossible to police after weds.
everyone seems to be slagging the ACO for this but from what I have read they were on your side for once !!
from what I read the ACO went straight to court to overturn the ban and reached a compromise of no glass trackside, which is why some sites were allowed initially and some were not, and obviously with circa 250,000 people going in and out was impossible to police after weds.
everyone seems to be slagging the ACO for this but from what I have read they were on your side for once !!
We didnt get searched or have any problems taking bottles in in the car. However, when walking out of the circuit from MB to see the fun outside, we were told that we could not bring bottles back in with us. So it seems its more for those with open bottles on foot as opposed to a full on block of all bottles.
Sorry guys, Ive just got back from LM today. This topic was posted on my login my a mate at my request because I didnt have net access on my phone, but a mate did.
We wondered into Houx on sunday the 5th and got asked no questions what so ever. We just set up as normal, loaded the stubbies into the fridge as normal, and that was that.
Imagine our suprise when me and my campsite neighbours did a carrefour shop on the monday and got turned away at the gate! We couldn''t answer no to the "have you any alcohol" as the stubbies were clearly on show in the back, as we didn't expect to get stopped!
It did cause a bit of chaos on Houx but clearly by friday, everyone was stood around drinking as normal.
There didn't seem to be as much rowdyness on site as in previous years either. even though the weather wasn't great, it was fairly quiet on friday night too!
We wondered into Houx on sunday the 5th and got asked no questions what so ever. We just set up as normal, loaded the stubbies into the fridge as normal, and that was that.
Imagine our suprise when me and my campsite neighbours did a carrefour shop on the monday and got turned away at the gate! We couldn''t answer no to the "have you any alcohol" as the stubbies were clearly on show in the back, as we didn't expect to get stopped!
It did cause a bit of chaos on Houx but clearly by friday, everyone was stood around drinking as normal.
There didn't seem to be as much rowdyness on site as in previous years either. even though the weather wasn't great, it was fairly quiet on friday night too!
eddie main man said:
Yeap, this seems to be a complete b-llsh-t story...
If you still have it, read the back of your ticket:Ticket said:
...any person caught entering or attempting to enter the site in possesion of an object likely to be construed as a weapon, or likely to cause injury, including glass bottles, is liable to 3 years imprisonment and a fine of 15245€.
Don't know if that has been there in previous years, but I haven't noticed it before.Gassing Station | Le Mans | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff