roundabout at the houx annexe?

roundabout at the houx annexe?

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polarbert

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17,923 posts

232 months

Tuesday 8th February 2005
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just wondering if anyone will be gathering here to watch lots of nice cars going round and some powersliding round??

went their on the friday evening/night at last years race, and the roundabout was full of people, great entertainment watching all the cars going round, i was just wondering if anybody will be going on the friday this year????


ta

shnozz

27,492 posts

272 months

Tuesday 8th February 2005
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polarbert said:
just wondering if anyone will be gathering here to watch lots of nice cars going round and some powersliding round??

went their on the friday evening/night at last years race, and the roundabout was full of people, great entertainment watching all the cars going round, i was just wondering if anybody will be going on the friday this year????


ta


great until the gendarmes released pepper spray at the crowd dont you mean?

polarbert

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232 months

Tuesday 8th February 2005
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shnozz said:


great until the gendarmes released pepper spray at the crowd dont you mean?


i was there for a huge amount of friday evening, and small amounts of each subsuquent evenings, never came across the police pepper spraying the crowd. when did this happen? all i saw was the police going with their sirens on waving at us!

would be very interesting to know which day and what time this happened?


cheers!

v15ben

15,796 posts

242 months

Tuesday 8th February 2005
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Sounds like a good idea, I have seen a lot of video footage of this from last year and it looks like good fun!
Anyone fancy taking up the challenge of the daftest vehicle to powerslide round the roundabout this year??

polarbert

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232 months

Tuesday 8th February 2005
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i think it was on a saturday there was a caterham that was powersliding round (last year) and he powerslid into a guy on one of thos petrol scooter things you see loads of, nobody hurt (except a little dent on the car) but it could have been a lot worse.

i shall be out there on the friday with my video camera!!! (any excuse to use it!) gonna be a bit of a walk from the airtrack vip karting site, last year on the houx annexe it was spitting distance, better get those walking shoes on!!

charlie 944

230 posts

251 months

Tuesday 8th February 2005
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Will be there with stella in hand !!! at a safe distance. Top night entertainment, and yes that Europa does handle.

Balmoral Green

40,929 posts

249 months

Tuesday 8th February 2005
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v15ben said:
Sounds like a good idea, I have seen a lot of video footage of this from last year and it looks like good fun!
Anyone fancy taking up the challenge of the daftest vehicle to powerslide round the roundabout this year??


Ooh!..er..me!

White_van_man

3,846 posts

250 months

Tuesday 8th February 2005
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i will be back this year spent all of friday afternoon at the enterence to houx/houx annex last year

polarbert

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Tuesday 8th February 2005
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White_van_man said:
i will be back this year spent all of friday afternoon at the enterence to houx/houx annex last year


bloody hell, i was stood there for around an hour, waiting for my brother to turn up, just managed to spot an enzo cruising past while i was there!! you didnt see that did you? we could have been standing next to each other!! lol

also saw some sort of a convoy with a gumball-esque logo on their bonnets maybe rabbit run? that goes to le mans i think.

i took my dad to the roundabout and he even found it a good laugh, and not many things impress him!!!

White_van_man

3,846 posts

250 months

Tuesday 8th February 2005
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i messed the enzo i did see a very nice dark green Shelby mustang and the caddylac (sp) was putting everyone else to shame

GCerbera

5,161 posts

252 months

Tuesday 8th February 2005
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We'll be back there, not sure I'll put the car through it again though.

Stumbled into it last year, but went back to watch.
Never saw any trouble,
all good humoured and posted some video previously on this thread:
www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=105963&f=25&h=0&hw=roundabout

Edited to say:
Just noticed I took the clips off line.
If anyone wants to see them, I can chuck them back up?

>> Edited by GCerbera on Tuesday 8th February 23:23

polarbert

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Tuesday 8th February 2005
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would be very greatful if you could do that, maybe i might be able to spot myself!!! doubt it though, there were that many people out

they from the friday night?

GCerbera

5,161 posts

252 months

Tuesday 8th February 2005
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polarbert said:
would be very greatful if you could do that, maybe i might be able to spot myself!!! doubt it though, there were that many people out

they from the friday night?
Here you go, Friday night at Le Mans!
www.aauk.biz/lm/HouxFriday.WMV

Alert - Large file warning.

polarbert

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Wednesday 9th February 2005
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cheers for that, downloading now. i really cant wait for this year, gonna take a chair and everything!! lol (everything being a drink and my camera!)

polarbert

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Wednesday 9th February 2005
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brings back so many memorys! lol i spent way too much time there in reflection, but what the hell, might take my bike or something as i dont see myself walking all the way down there from airtracks site - OR i could get my dad to drop me off now thats a plan!

The Surveyor

7,576 posts

238 months

Wednesday 9th February 2005
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I am going for the first time this year and it looks great.

But is it not dangerous going around that roundabout the wrong way!!!

Mark B

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266 months

Wednesday 9th February 2005
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The Surveyor said:
But is it not dangerous going around that roundabout the wrong way!!!


Ooops there goes another rib!

rsvmilly

11,288 posts

242 months

Wednesday 9th February 2005
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Just down from the roundabout some Fins were encouraging people to spin up their wheels. One who did was this nutter in a Focus;

Nutter

(Warning - 10Mb)

After this, he parked up in Houx Annexe behind us and said 'Thank you Avis'

polarbert

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232 months

Wednesday 9th February 2005
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rsvmilly said:
Just down from the roundabout some Fins were encouraging people to spin up their wheels. One who did was this nutter in a Focus;

Nutter

(Warning - 10Mb)

After this, he parked up in Houx Annexe behind us and said 'Thank you Avis'



he was so close to nearly hitting that galaxy as he was doing that wheelspin.

whereabouts was this? near to the karting track? or the other way near tunnel under the corner to the mulsanne straight?

>> Edited by polarbert on Wednesday 9th February 20:49

White_van_man

3,846 posts

250 months

Wednesday 9th February 2005
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rsvmilly said:
Just down from the roundabout some Fins were encouraging people to spin up their wheels. One who did was this nutter in a Focus;

Nutter

(Warning - 10Mb)

After this, he parked up in Houx Annexe behind us and said 'Thank you Avis'


you can see me on the other side of the road that was a great afternoon