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When they stopped letting us in (from the campgrounds) with our rolling cool boxes in 2015 that was the final straw for me. After 3 decades of attendance year in, year out - latterly all the way from the US, having to pay piss-taking money for piss-tasting beer made it not worth all the effort.
Regarding track food, back in the day there used to be a lovely old chap who had a huge gas-fired rotisserie, just across from the old Champagne Cork. That guy cooked and sold many hundreds (if not thousands) of utterly delicious chickens every year and had done so since before WW2 - can't recall how much un demi-poulet cost - but it was a life-saving beer sponge for me, for years. Now gone but not forgotten.
I stopped eating track food at Le Mans when I saw two adolescents picking snot balls and flicking them into the Tartiflette pans.
I fear for my local classic enduro event at Sebring - as of now, you may take in as much of your own brewskis as you like, track food is unhealthy but reasonably good quality and the track layout and spectator areas are such that you can grill and eat trackside. The less corporate Sebring remains, the longer this will be the case. Le Mans kind of changed when all the Audi logos started appearing all over the facility.
Sebring next year is shaping up to be something quite spectacular - two back-to-back races - IMSA 12 hours and WEC 1000 (effectively another 12 hour race) double-header. The advertising hoardings are going up around here already.
Regarding track food, back in the day there used to be a lovely old chap who had a huge gas-fired rotisserie, just across from the old Champagne Cork. That guy cooked and sold many hundreds (if not thousands) of utterly delicious chickens every year and had done so since before WW2 - can't recall how much un demi-poulet cost - but it was a life-saving beer sponge for me, for years. Now gone but not forgotten.
I stopped eating track food at Le Mans when I saw two adolescents picking snot balls and flicking them into the Tartiflette pans.
I fear for my local classic enduro event at Sebring - as of now, you may take in as much of your own brewskis as you like, track food is unhealthy but reasonably good quality and the track layout and spectator areas are such that you can grill and eat trackside. The less corporate Sebring remains, the longer this will be the case. Le Mans kind of changed when all the Audi logos started appearing all over the facility.
Sebring next year is shaping up to be something quite spectacular - two back-to-back races - IMSA 12 hours and WEC 1000 (effectively another 12 hour race) double-header. The advertising hoardings are going up around here already.
Matt Harper said:
When they stopped letting us in (from the campgrounds) with our rolling cool boxes in 2015 that was the final straw for me. After 3 decades of attendance year in, year out - latterly all the way from the US, having to pay piss-taking money for piss-tasting beer made it not worth all the effort.
Regarding track food, back in the day there used to be a lovely old chap who had a huge gas-fired rotisserie, just across from the old Champagne Cork. That guy cooked and sold many hundreds (if not thousands) of utterly delicious chickens every year and had done so since before WW2 - can't recall how much un demi-poulet cost - but it was a life-saving beer sponge for me, for years. Now gone but not forgotten.
I stopped eating track food at Le Mans when I saw two adolescents picking snot balls and flicking them into the Tartiflette pans.
I fear for my local classic enduro event at Sebring - as of now, you may take in as much of your own brewskis as you like, track food is unhealthy but reasonably good quality and the track layout and spectator areas are such that you can grill and eat trackside. The less corporate Sebring remains, the longer this will be the case. Le Mans kind of changed when all the Audi logos started appearing all over the facility.
Sebring next year is shaping up to be something quite spectacular - two back-to-back races - IMSA 12 hours and WEC 1000 (effectively another 12 hour race) double-header. The advertising hoardings are going up around here already.
Great Post.Regarding track food, back in the day there used to be a lovely old chap who had a huge gas-fired rotisserie, just across from the old Champagne Cork. That guy cooked and sold many hundreds (if not thousands) of utterly delicious chickens every year and had done so since before WW2 - can't recall how much un demi-poulet cost - but it was a life-saving beer sponge for me, for years. Now gone but not forgotten.
I stopped eating track food at Le Mans when I saw two adolescents picking snot balls and flicking them into the Tartiflette pans.
I fear for my local classic enduro event at Sebring - as of now, you may take in as much of your own brewskis as you like, track food is unhealthy but reasonably good quality and the track layout and spectator areas are such that you can grill and eat trackside. The less corporate Sebring remains, the longer this will be the case. Le Mans kind of changed when all the Audi logos started appearing all over the facility.
Sebring next year is shaping up to be something quite spectacular - two back-to-back races - IMSA 12 hours and WEC 1000 (effectively another 12 hour race) double-header. The advertising hoardings are going up around here already.
Like you I remember the Chicken man too, those Chickens tasted Awesome
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