Your most Mad Le Mans Memories?
Discussion
I'll start with some of mine...
Taking turns to walk through the fire embers when drunk as you can't feel it (but you can the next day)
Running nearly naked round garage Vert with nothing but a thong made of gaffer tape, and bog roll.
Repeating the next night without the gaffer tape and bog roll.
Falling asleep in the rain with just my legs in the tent.
Being woken up at 2am, me absolutely incapacitated and being expected to help patch a gazebo that had collapsed under the weight of the rain.
Motors TV doing an interview of our fancy dress Christmas theme site, and missing the theme, they thought Jesus was a caveman, wiseman (me) was the pope, and angel Gabirel was a drag queen. The best bit though was the interviewer saying "don't swear" coming across the drawbridge, tripping on the peg that hold it up and going "F**K"
Singing the national anthem tune under the tunnels, but dressed as pirates and replacing all the words with "Arrrrrr"
Taking turns to walk through the fire embers when drunk as you can't feel it (but you can the next day)
Running nearly naked round garage Vert with nothing but a thong made of gaffer tape, and bog roll.
Repeating the next night without the gaffer tape and bog roll.
Falling asleep in the rain with just my legs in the tent.
Being woken up at 2am, me absolutely incapacitated and being expected to help patch a gazebo that had collapsed under the weight of the rain.
Motors TV doing an interview of our fancy dress Christmas theme site, and missing the theme, they thought Jesus was a caveman, wiseman (me) was the pope, and angel Gabirel was a drag queen. The best bit though was the interviewer saying "don't swear" coming across the drawbridge, tripping on the peg that hold it up and going "F**K"
Singing the national anthem tune under the tunnels, but dressed as pirates and replacing all the words with "Arrrrrr"
My first LM in 2008.... we were camping on the verge outside the Expo camp - now impossible with steel bars on the verge.... a man comes walking along... says hello... blood is running down one of his arms.... we all jump up with kitchen rolls towels etc.... turns out he had jumped over one the wire fences next to the motorway and he was ripped in the process.... his son walking next to him hadn't noticed...
Karting when it was so wet, the water came up the inside of my shorts, up the inside of my shirt and filled my helmet so I couldn't breathe.
The Deltawing cutting out just opposite where we were sat and the poor bd trying to get it going again for hours.
A campervan of Dutch guys circling Maison Blanche with their entertainment system (incl TVs) streaming hardcore porn, loudly.
The year some crazy Polish guys arrived with nothing but a trailer of wood and some power tools. By the time I'd come back from a walk they'd built their own grandstand on MB.
That group that literally made a kitchen/dining room and then built a white picket fence and gravel path out of their camp.
Someone (not that I'm confirming or denying knowing anything about it) bringing an electrician who may or may not have spliced in to the live junction box at the toilets and run 75m of cable back to camp.
That year I built a 3,500w club-spec sound system that you could hear from the circuit...from the bottom corner of Houx Annexe.
The Deltawing cutting out just opposite where we were sat and the poor bd trying to get it going again for hours.
A campervan of Dutch guys circling Maison Blanche with their entertainment system (incl TVs) streaming hardcore porn, loudly.
The year some crazy Polish guys arrived with nothing but a trailer of wood and some power tools. By the time I'd come back from a walk they'd built their own grandstand on MB.
That group that literally made a kitchen/dining room and then built a white picket fence and gravel path out of their camp.
Someone (not that I'm confirming or denying knowing anything about it) bringing an electrician who may or may not have spliced in to the live junction box at the toilets and run 75m of cable back to camp.
That year I built a 3,500w club-spec sound system that you could hear from the circuit...from the bottom corner of Houx Annexe.
Houx Annexe Campsite 2007:
naked people waving at everyone driving by from middle of roundabout after walking there naked
with buckets full of gas exploding and clearing the top of the lamp posts on roundabout
while a man on a sofa with a lampshade drove round campsite
closely followed by a scaled replica of an etype drifting round every bend on the campsite
while avoiding 8 foot high pyramids of beer bottles
That was an interesting year
I don't think Houx Annexe was ever the same after the football stadium was built
naked people waving at everyone driving by from middle of roundabout after walking there naked
with buckets full of gas exploding and clearing the top of the lamp posts on roundabout
while a man on a sofa with a lampshade drove round campsite
closely followed by a scaled replica of an etype drifting round every bend on the campsite
while avoiding 8 foot high pyramids of beer bottles
That was an interesting year
I don't think Houx Annexe was ever the same after the football stadium was built
Around 30 of us rocked up in Tvr's, wearing full Arab outfits,some of us nearly got stabbed on the ferry on the way over by an irate bunch of jonny foreigners who took offence at our costumes.
We attended the drivers parade on the Friday evening, propped up most of the bars in the town,for some time, still dressed as Arabs.
Little did we know how seriously religion is taken there.....
We had to have a police escort onto the train back to camp after a very large and very angry group of religious nuts had surrounded us wanting their pound of flesh from us for apparently insulting their beliefs.
We attended the drivers parade on the Friday evening, propped up most of the bars in the town,for some time, still dressed as Arabs.
Little did we know how seriously religion is taken there.....
We had to have a police escort onto the train back to camp after a very large and very angry group of religious nuts had surrounded us wanting their pound of flesh from us for apparently insulting their beliefs.
A couple of memories: '94 when we got to the inside of the track just after Tertre rouge at the beginning of the Hunaudiares where one of our party thought it'd be great to get some photos of the drivers at dusk, using his large flash... we were on the grass verge right by the track.. it didn't take long until the marshalls and firemen were chasing us off because the drivers were complaining of being blinded as they got onto the straight..
One mad Friday (95, 96) our neighbours returned to Houx with a telegraph pole strapped to the roof of their Landy, which was then placed over a fire and we took it in turns to walk the plank..
One mad Friday (95, 96) our neighbours returned to Houx with a telegraph pole strapped to the roof of their Landy, which was then placed over a fire and we took it in turns to walk the plank..
We just finished setting tents in bsj next to a big Winnebago when tiff needell pulled up, him and a camera crew were doing a documentary on lord drason and his race team, over the weekend we had a few beers with him and got a bit of info on the team. Not really a mad experience but nice to chat to a Le Mans driver..
2005 mad Friday, someone ragging a non descript Ford around Houx Annexe roundabout until it went bang. Calmly got out and said 'thanks Hertz, it was fun whilst it lasted'
2005 mad Friday evening, accidentally knocking a Hawiian Tropic girl over the head with a barstool trying to manoeuvre a busy bar. Hardly mad, but thought I would be lynched.
2007, Bomber Denton getting maced by a Gendarme for not seeing it as reasonable that cars wouldn't be allowed to drift around the roundabout at Houx Annexe.
Then there's the meets over the years at Arnage and the subsequent burnouts afterwards, the madness outside the Chinese on the Mulsanne - particularly the year the 'car wash' turned up. Shame all that has descended into stag parties squirting piss into drop tops and tts trying to get 4x4 to do a burnout....
2005 mad Friday evening, accidentally knocking a Hawiian Tropic girl over the head with a barstool trying to manoeuvre a busy bar. Hardly mad, but thought I would be lynched.
2007, Bomber Denton getting maced by a Gendarme for not seeing it as reasonable that cars wouldn't be allowed to drift around the roundabout at Houx Annexe.
Then there's the meets over the years at Arnage and the subsequent burnouts afterwards, the madness outside the Chinese on the Mulsanne - particularly the year the 'car wash' turned up. Shame all that has descended into stag parties squirting piss into drop tops and tts trying to get 4x4 to do a burnout....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaUAyKEsE58
The good old days
Having said that, a couple of years ago we cycled the ENTIRE lap on the Friday evening. Unsure how but we just went through an open gate and were able to go along the start/finish straight, under the Dunlop bridge, past Tertre Rouge, out onto public road... it started raining, one of the (ancient) bikes shed its chain, after fixing that in the rain we just kept going all the way back around to the pits. An incredible experience, thankfully we were able to stop and take some photos along the way too.
The good old days
Having said that, a couple of years ago we cycled the ENTIRE lap on the Friday evening. Unsure how but we just went through an open gate and were able to go along the start/finish straight, under the Dunlop bridge, past Tertre Rouge, out onto public road... it started raining, one of the (ancient) bikes shed its chain, after fixing that in the rain we just kept going all the way back around to the pits. An incredible experience, thankfully we were able to stop and take some photos along the way too.
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