Maison Blanc - Le Mans

[silverthorn2151]

We are heading to Maison Blanche (and Bugatti) in a couple of weeks.

Seen a couple of clips on YouTube but don't know much about it. Anyone else been there? We know Bugatti quite well and this is a 2 day trip with a day at each.

Excited, and fingers crossed we fix the Radical before then!


Excuse poor speeling en Francais in title

Edited by silverthorn2151 on Tuesday 24th July 06:01

[Stephanie Plum]

Done Maison Blanche twice - it's great fun in our Lotuses. Fast, couple of hairpins, flat with no undulations. It reminds me of the old Snetterton layout pre 200/300 days.

[silverthorn2151]

Excellent to hear!

Should be a great couple of days. Don't know much about who else is going to be there as my chum has booked it. He tells me there are 82 cars booked for the two days!

[fiveoclockhero1]

I'll be there in my Honda'd Elise with about 20 VX220's as its the vx220.org annual euro trip

[silverthorn2151]

Cool. We have a slight issue with the Radical (both of them actually) but with luck we will see you there. Come say hi.

[Stephanie Plum]

I suspect you two are taking about different events

[silverthorn2151]

3rd August - Maison Blanche
4th August - Bugatti

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[Stephanie Plum]

Yup - different events. The VX chaps are there with LOT. 4th and 5th August.

[911Thrasher]

Heading down there for first time too on saturday...with brand new Challenge Stradale. Never driven it before!

Sold the 7.1RS

What should we expect?

Note: i'll be one of the slowest out there, so wave "hello" when you pass me

Edited by 911Thrasher on Wednesday 1st August 01:08

[silverthorn2151]

911Thrasher said:

Heading down there for first time too on saturday...with brand new Challenge Stradale. Never driven it before!

Sold the 7.1RS

What should we expect?

Note: i'll be one of the slowest out there, so wave "hello" when you pass me

Edited by 911Thrasher on Wednesday 1st August 01:08

Are you at Bugatti or Maison Blanche on Saturday? We are at Bugatti and if you're there come say hi. We'll be the 3 middle aged geezers with the white (ish) SR3. Probably swearing a lot!

You'll love it at Bugatti in that new toy!

[911Thrasher]

silverthorn2151 said:

Are you at Bugatti or Maison Blanche on Saturday? We are at Bugatti and if you're there come say hi. We'll be the 3 middle aged geezers with the white (ish) SR3. Probably swearing a lot!

You'll love it at Bugatti in that new toy!

Bugatti - and i think saturday is only Bugatti actually.
Watch a video yesterday, looks quite flat and nice. Must be quite narrow and little straight lines if a "bike" track, no?

[silverthorn2151]

911Thrasher said:

Bugatti - and i think saturday is only Bugatti actually.
Watch a video yesterday, looks quite flat and nice. Must be quite narrow and little straight lines if a "bike" track, no?

There is another day at Miason Blanche on Saturday.

Bugatti isn't narrow at all to be honest and far from a 'bike' track. There are many videos on-line to get an idea of what it's like.

Pretty flat to be fair but the pit straight rises towards the Dunlop chicane and the road drops quite steeply down under the bridge before turning right in a wide hairpin leading to the infield.. We loved it there last time we went.

Great atmosphere. I understand that there are 93...yes 93 cars there on Saturday. Only see 2 Ferraris on the list though, a 612 and a 458. Did you enter the Porsche originally?

[911Thrasher]

silverthorn2151 said:

Great atmosphere. I understand that there are 93...yes 93 cars there on Saturday. Only see 2 Ferraris on the list though, a 612 and a 458. Did you enter the Porsche originally?

Yup originally registered as 997.1 GT3 RS (Pierre Raoul)...but sold it since and bought the CStradale.

My bro (Andre Raoul) also registered as 997 C4S is been put for sale...so will be renting a Radical/Atom i believe.

Edited by 911Thrasher on Wednesday 1st August 11:53

[silverthorn2151]

911Thrasher said:

Yup originally registered as 997.1 GT3 RS (Pierre Raoul)...but sold it since and bought the CStradale.

My bro (Andre Raoul) also registered as 997 C4S is been put for sale...so will be renting a Radical/Atom i believe.

Edited by 911Thrasher on Wednesday 1st August 11:53

Ah there you both are.

See you over the weekend then!

[911Thrasher]

What a blast! Thanks to all the people and organisers out there.

Awsome day, super chilled, good weather....and no noise restriction

Recommend to anyone!

Edited by 911Thrasher on Monday 6th August 22:10

[silverthorn2151]

My word that was loud!

Behind the pits, in the paddock, garages all shut (more or less) and we had to pause conversation as you went down the pit straight!



Great day and Bugatti Circuit is such fun. I understand that one guy there clocked up 300 miles...that's over 115 laps!

[911Thrasher]

300miles (480km), 115laps at roughly 2min (that's real fast)...that equates to 4hours behind the wheel!

Waow waow waow!

FYI: Le Mans Bugatti track lap time (SportAuto, French magazine):
- Porsche 911 GT2 RS - 1'47"08
- Lambo Superleggera - 1'47"53
- Porsche 911 GT2 RS 3.8 - 1'49"25
- KTM X-Bow R300 - 1'49"98
- Nissan GTR 2011 - 1'51"37
- Porsche 911 Carrera S (991) - 1'51"97
- Audi R8 V10 - 1'53"51
- Maserati Granturismo S - 1'57"12
- BMW M5 - 1'58"12
- BMW 1M Coupe - 1'58"89
- Lotus Evora - 2'01"12
- Renault Megane RS T - 2'02"23
- Subaru WRX STi S - 2'02"28
- Lotus Elise - 2'05"87

[Steve27]

Awesome 2 days, great organisation by Stewart, Dennis, chester and the boys. Met some realy nice people. Minor issue with our radical snapping driveshaft. but luckily had a spare. definately going back next year

[silverthorn2151]

Steve27 said:

Awesome 2 days, great organisation by Stewart, Dennis, chester and the boys. Met some realy nice people. Minor issue with our radical snapping driveshaft. but luckily had a spare. definately going back next year

I presume you made it home safe after staying up all night just so you could wave us goodbye!

As you say, some really nice people there and the roads of Jersey must have been quiet that weekend with all the noisy cars with us!

[Steve27]

Ah!!!! yeah tried to forget about that. hope we didnt keep anyone awake, but i'm blaming Dennis. LOL