Le Mans goers 2020 assemble here

[Lovey1]

I'm in if it goes ahead. 3 of the 4 of our party should be coming but may drop to 2. Staying in Maison Blanche so should be a pretty obvious White village for us.

[teapee]

Hi

Signed up to PH just to get more info really. 2020 is to be my first Le Mans, so I won't have any other experience for comparison of course!

Who knows what village we'll be put into - I have general admittance tickets only - and other travelling companions have sorted the campsite pitches. They booked in Blue Nord (6 pitches for the group), they booked my car parking in Blanc, and I sorted my own ACO membership and tickets for me and the wife.

Just hoping that "somehow" we'll magically all be assigned the same village else we'll not be able to reach our tent! (They're taking a van of our kit, we're taking an the more impracticable vehicle but having a road trip!)

Looking forward to it - just hope we can swap our village if we're not all together!

[Powerfully Built PSC Director - Outside IR35]

Yep, we’re going. Tertre Rouge and it looks to be about 8 of us.

[MCSV8]

I'll be there in a party of 10. Staying in Houx, so presumably the green village. Expecting to have access from Dunlop Bridge to Tertre Rouge. Luckily ACO Chappelle members' area is in that zone. This will have to do as I furloughed the grandstand tickets to next year.

Bring it on !!

[LM240]

MCSV8 said:

I'll be there in a party of 10. Staying in Houx, so presumably the green village. Expecting to have access from Dunlop Bridge to Tertre Rouge. Luckily ACO Chappelle members' area is in that zone. This will have to do as I furloughed the grandstand tickets to next year.

Bring it on !!

Looks like inside area of Tertre Rouge is only viewing area for green zone.

The aco Chappelle area looks like it comes under red, which also gets the Dunlop bridge to cross and Dunlop chicane down to the outside of tertre rouge.

[Mad Mike]

3 no shows for our gang of 8. 4 hard core +1 medium core
Everyone is ready and willing for what ever we arrive to. The camping site opening is a problem though, normally arrive Monday evening hmmm
BSJ so inside of Porsche curves isn’t so bad, I assume we can still get to pubs and bars off circuit

Mike

[phil633]

12 of us hoping it happens in Beausajour. Usually closer to 30 but some have other commitments.

[wsn03]

teapee said:

Hi

Signed up to PH just to get more info really. 2020 is to be my first Le Mans, so I won't have any other experience for comparison of course!

Who knows what village we'll be put into - I have general admittance tickets only - and other travelling companions have sorted the campsite pitches. They booked in Blue Nord (6 pitches for the group), they booked my car parking in Blanc, and I sorted my own ACO membership and tickets for me and the wife.

Just hoping that "somehow" we'll magically all be assigned the same village else we'll not be able to reach our tent! (They're taking a van of our kit, we're taking an the more impracticable vehicle but having a road trip!)

Looking forward to it - just hope we can swap our village if we're not all together!

Hello
You definitely win the prize for most insane decision of the year

Whatever you experience I can guarantee will be 10% of the event under normal circumstances.

Le Mans this year by the sounds of it will be more akin to a night time rally in Wales, up in the hills with a few bobble hat wearing motor geeks. For me personally that'll do!

I hope your crew really like racing cars, because there won't be anything else to see by normal standards.

I would go again next year just to see and enjoy the stark contrast.

One thing for sure, you will be able to say "I was there !" Not many others will.

Enjoy, fire away with questions

[davidd]

We normally take 8-12, this year it is just 4 of us. From what I can gather a lot are dropping out.

[surveyor]

wsn03 said:

teapee said:

Hi

Signed up to PH just to get more info really. 2020 is to be my first Le Mans, so I won't have any other experience for comparison of course!

Who knows what village we'll be put into - I have general admittance tickets only - and other travelling companions have sorted the campsite pitches. They booked in Blue Nord (6 pitches for the group), they booked my car parking in Blanc, and I sorted my own ACO membership and tickets for me and the wife.

Just hoping that "somehow" we'll magically all be assigned the same village else we'll not be able to reach our tent! (They're taking a van of our kit, we're taking an the more impracticable vehicle but having a road trip!)

Looking forward to it - just hope we can swap our village if we're not all together!

Hello
You definitely win the prize for most insane decision of the year

Whatever you experience I can guarantee will be 10% of the event under normal circumstances.

Le Mans this year by the sounds of it will be more akin to a night time rally in Wales, up in the hills with a few bobble hat wearing motor geeks. For me personally that'll do!

I hope your crew really like racing cars, because there won't be anything else to see by normal standards.

I would go again next year just to see and enjoy the stark contrast.

One thing for sure, you will be able to say "I was there !" Not many others will.

Enjoy, fire away with questions

We are all wec enthusiasts and enthusiasts of sitting in the camp with a beer..

Sounds perfect!

[teapee]

wsn03 said:

Le Mans this year by the sounds of it will be more akin to a night time rally in Wales, up in the hills with a few bobble hat wearing motor geeks. For me personally that'll do!

Sounds perfect to me - did plenty of that in the 80s

[XJR9LM]

2 of us still going, Camping Bleu although we wont arrive till the Friday now.

[//j17]

I'm still tossing up between the planned Thursday arrival or swapping to Friday...

[Biker 1]

I hope to be there - party of 3. Went last time in 2003(!!!)
I have no idea where we're staying as I'm a lazy bd & my mate's sorting it all out.

[WhiteBaron]

Will be there,


How is not sorted yet, but plan to get there Wednesday night, camping in maison Blanche.

Group was 16, can see it being a 3rd of that possibly


Hopefully white zone means we can still access stand 21

[MCSV8]

LM240 said:

MCSV8 said:

I'll be there in a party of 10. Staying in Houx, so presumably the green village. Expecting to have access from Dunlop Bridge to Tertre Rouge. Luckily ACO Chappelle members' area is in that zone. This will have to do as I furloughed the grandstand tickets to next year.

Bring it on !!

Looks like inside area of Tertre Rouge is only viewing area for green zone.

The aco Chappelle area looks like it comes under red, which also gets the Dunlop bridge to cross and Dunlop chicane down to the outside of tertre rouge.

Looking at a very low-res map on Reddit, it looks like main Houx will be in the yellow zone, which is the inside of the Ford Chicane/ Maison Blanche near the corporate hospitality areas. No idea of the source of this map, as it does not show up anywhere else.

[Truckosaurus]

MCSV8 said:

... No idea of the source of this map...

Source of the map seems to have been the Danish tour company's "we are cancelling our 2020 tours" webpage.

With luck the ACO should publish the high res version in 2/3 weeks time once they start announcing the final plans.

[JT3K]

MCSV8 said:

Looking at a very low-res map on Reddit, it looks like main Houx will be in the yellow zone, which is the inside of the Ford Chicane/ Maison Blanche near the corporate hospitality areas. No idea of the source of this map, as it does not show up anywhere else.

That's me.

Sorry about the potato quality, it's the only one floating about at the moment. It was indeed the one leaked by the Danish (?) tour operator. If I get the info, I get it up there but I'm waiting for a better copy too!

[themarsh]

Our 3 usual suspects will be going as usual.
Had booked Mulsanne Campsite & Arnage/Mulsanne entrance tickets in January, so logically should be in Village Beige. I certainly hope so.
More room on the campsite, less crowded on the hill to view the race, shorter queues for toilets & showers etc
It’s looking better all the time.
Just hope our usual drinking holes are open

[eps]

We're going. Wednesday to Sunday, we'd already planned a short trip anyway.

Just 6 of us.

At the moment T17 and Epinettes - but these were booked separately so I don't know how the ACO are going to work that one out!