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gt6

1,422 posts

184 months

Saturday 11th July 2020
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Powerfully Built PSC Director - Outside IR35 said:
I for one apologise to gt6 who obviously had his own reasons for how he posted the info here. However, I do appreciate gt6's previous info and experience which I have found to be invaluable.

Also, a thanks to chasingracecars for the email he posted up which has helped my group come up with a plan B. I extend the same thanks to Fred and Vince too.

The whole thing was just a bit of lively debate and typical LM st-talk.

Cheers to you all!

beer
I appreciate that, lets hope we all get on better in September, i suspect we may share a beer or two in Tertre Rouge. As said we are all getting frustrated and anxious, but booked tunnel today so ever optimistic.

FredericRobinson

3,667 posts

231 months

Saturday 11th July 2020
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gt6 said:
I suspect we may share a beer or two in Tertre Rouge.

You can count me in for that

wsn03

1,923 posts

100 months

Saturday 11th July 2020
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FredericRobinson said:
gt6 said:
I suspect we may share a beer or two in Tertre Rouge.

You can count me in for that
And me...let's make a firm plan nearer the time

lowdrag

12,868 posts

212 months

Sunday 12th July 2020
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This is downright scaremongering but - I came past the Tertre Rouge bar yesterday and it had that kinda "abandoned" look. You know, shutters down etc. I shall investigate, so hold your breath. Could just be holidays of course.

wsn03

1,923 posts

100 months

Sunday 12th July 2020
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lowdrag said:
This is downright scaremongering but - I came past the Tertre Rouge bar yesterday and it had that kinda "abandoned" look. You know, shutters down etc. I shall investigate, so hold your breath. Could just be holidays of course.
There's a bar at the bottom of the steep ramp from the roundabout- is that the Tetre Rouge bar (on Chemin au Bouef)?

Tyre Smoke

23,018 posts

260 months

Sunday 12th July 2020
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No, it's the one on the outside of the circuit just off the roundabout on the left as you head down the Mulsanne before you pass the MM Arena.

Cass63

265 posts

118 months

Sunday 12th July 2020
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Look on the bright side, if it goes ahead we can say ‘we were there’.

Tyre Smoke

23,018 posts

260 months

Sunday 12th July 2020
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Yep, in the car park of the MM Arena on Tuesday morning, waiting for the gates for Houx and the Annexe to open. laugh

I could have a decent sideline going in charging phones, and providing hot food and cold beers.

Or more likely we'll turn up and watch the race and report back on Monday/Tuesday "well that was a bit crap wasn't it?" hehe
Sunday 12th July 2020
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wsn03 said:
And me...let's make a firm plan nearer the time
Sounds like a plan.

cmsapms

707 posts

243 months

Sunday 12th July 2020
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wsn03 said:
lowdrag said:
This is downright scaremongering but - I came past the Tertre Rouge bar yesterday and it had that kinda "abandoned" look. You know, shutters down etc. I shall investigate, so hold your breath. Could just be holidays of course.
There's a bar at the bottom of the steep ramp from the roundabout- is that the Tetre Rouge bar (on Chemin au Bouef)?
Tyre Smoke said:
No, it's the one on the outside of the circuit just off the roundabout on the left as you head down the Mulsanne before you pass the MM Arena.
I think you're both talking about the same place, from different angles.

I'll have no truck with farcebook, but their bookface page says they'll be open again on 24th August, if my schoolboy french hasn't deserted me!

Tyre Smoke

23,018 posts

260 months

Sunday 12th July 2020
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No, two separate places. One is at the bottom of a ramp off the ring road, the other is on the outside of the circuit opposite Tertre Rouge camping.

lowdrag

12,868 posts

212 months

Sunday 12th July 2020
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Tyre Smoke said:
No, it's the one on the outside of the circuit just off the roundabout on the left as you head down the Mulsanne before you pass the MM Arena.
Same ruddy bar! Coming out of town you arrive at the roundabout at Tertre Rouge. You turn left and immediately right downhill for 30 metres. The bar is on the right of you. Wwsn was right all along.

Tyre Smoke

23,018 posts

260 months

Sunday 12th July 2020
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Bloody hell! You're right! rofl

Just the 16 years I've thought they were two different places!

Apologies!

gt6

1,422 posts

184 months

Sunday 12th July 2020
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In all the years i have been going down to le mans i have only visited the bar twice, and both of those were a few years ago now. keep meaning to go but never seem to make it out of the campsite or down to the corner without getting waylaid by an old friend or even someone i have never met before. daughter then moans when i get back that i have been drinking. Nothing changes.

wsn03

1,923 posts

100 months

Sunday 12th July 2020
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lowdrag said:
Tyre Smoke said:
No, it's the one on the outside of the circuit just off the roundabout on the left as you head down the Mulsanne before you pass the MM Arena.
Same ruddy bar! Coming out of town you arrive at the roundabout at Tertre Rouge. You turn left and immediately right downhill for 30 metres. The bar is on the right of you. Wwsn was right all along.
Ah...i was trying to work it all out for a while there. Thanks for confirming

FredericRobinson

3,667 posts

231 months

Sunday 12th July 2020
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It's not somewhere you'd imagine going to if you weren't at the track or the football ground though, can't see how it survives the rest of the time

wsn03

1,923 posts

100 months

Sunday 12th July 2020
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FredericRobinson said:
It's not somewhere you'd imagine going to if you weren't at the track or the football ground though, can't see how it survives the rest of the time
I was thinking that. I drove by it at Le Mans moto24, the whole area completely deserted

lowdrag

12,868 posts

212 months

Sunday 12th July 2020
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Cheap lunches for workers with luncheon vouchers. You might not believe it but the bar at Mulsanne (for those directionally challenged go down the Mulsanne, straight on at the roundabout, and another 500 yds on the left) broke its record last years and served 147 lunches in one day. Good food too, and unlimited starter buffet, all for not much over £10. Oh, including a small carafe of wine. It's called the Boule d'Or.

wsn03

1,923 posts

100 months

Sunday 12th July 2020
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lowdrag said:
Cheap lunches for workers with luncheon vouchers. You might not believe it but the bar at Mulsanne (for those directionally challenged go down the Mulsanne, straight on at the roundabout, and another 500 yds on the left) broke its record last years and served 147 lunches in one day. Good food too, and unlimited starter buffet, all for not much over £10. Oh, including a small carafe of wine. It's called the Boule d'Or.
That's worth knowing next time I go to Moto24

DMN

2,983 posts

138 months

Monday 13th July 2020
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We had some food at the Boule d'Or last year, I can't say I was that impressed. Very limited menu, and not a patch on some of those in Arnage for me.