Le Mans - A permenant reminder
Discussion
As the big event gets ever nearer have a think about what permanent mementos you’ve been left with. If not, how about a tale of great courage in the face of huge French police harassment when all you were armed with was a Super Soaker
• A scar
• Broken bone
• Burnt tent
• Permanent liver damage
• A trip into French custody
• Divorce or separation on your return
• A fight
• An all in bundle
• A disease
Let’s be hearing your tales of uncommon valour folks
• A scar
• Broken bone
• Burnt tent
• Permanent liver damage
• A trip into French custody
• Divorce or separation on your return
• A fight
• An all in bundle
• A disease
Let’s be hearing your tales of uncommon valour folks
the car was stashed in a farmers barn for a few days!!!!1995, ist year at Le Mans, wife finds out I was having a affair with a girl at work.
Took 13 hours to get home on the Monday after the race.
Quickest 13 hours of my life. Divorced not long after, life has been great since, every year the crowd I go with have a drink and toast the ex!!!
Steve
Took 13 hours to get home on the Monday after the race.
Quickest 13 hours of my life. Divorced not long after, life has been great since, every year the crowd I go with have a drink and toast the ex!!!
Steve
We came back to the campsite on Friday night last year after a few sherberts in Town and found that the campsite was surrounded by Porsches, fair enough .... argument ensues with a drunk member of the neighbours, all in good humour we thought .....
Graham goes next door to settle things with the neighbours, we're all here to have a laugh etc etc no offence intended, neighbour still not having it, although all his mates and us think it's pretty funny ...
So we're all listening to this thinking yeh yeh .... Gary can't stand it any longer though and just lamps the bloke, he was massive ... brawl ensues, gets broken up and everyone returns to tents.
In the morning we get up to try and find Gary's glasses, in bits, the neighbours are friendly as ever and tell us that they didn't like the bloke anyway, he didn't normally come with them and they were glad Gary lamped him .... he had left at 6am to go back to Wales !!!
Hilarious fun, might not sound it, but it was so comical .... we're due to meet the guys this year for a beer, amazing how you make friends !!
Graham goes next door to settle things with the neighbours, we're all here to have a laugh etc etc no offence intended, neighbour still not having it, although all his mates and us think it's pretty funny ...
So we're all listening to this thinking yeh yeh .... Gary can't stand it any longer though and just lamps the bloke, he was massive ... brawl ensues, gets broken up and everyone returns to tents.
In the morning we get up to try and find Gary's glasses, in bits, the neighbours are friendly as ever and tell us that they didn't like the bloke anyway, he didn't normally come with them and they were glad Gary lamped him .... he had left at 6am to go back to Wales !!!
Hilarious fun, might not sound it, but it was so comical .... we're due to meet the guys this year for a beer, amazing how you make friends !!
Scars and permanent momentos:
Mine generally eminate from the fire......
1. As we couldn't get the fire going, in a semi drunken state I decided that a small quantity of petrol was required, this once lit took the hairs off my legs. Hairs that now never grow back.
2. Another great one, is friend of mine who slept (passed out) near the fire burnt his ankle, this then went septic and he has a scar the size of an old 50p piece...
3. Non flame retardent furtiliser for lighting fires, never forget the first time I saw this.
Mine generally eminate from the fire......
1. As we couldn't get the fire going, in a semi drunken state I decided that a small quantity of petrol was required, this once lit took the hairs off my legs. Hairs that now never grow back.
2. Another great one, is friend of mine who slept (passed out) near the fire burnt his ankle, this then went septic and he has a scar the size of an old 50p piece...
3. Non flame retardent furtiliser for lighting fires, never forget the first time I saw this.
My first hangover from hell was at Le Mans in 1988 - I was 13 
More recently, on the first trip I organised myself, we went for unofficial camping.
By the end of the race my mate had nothing but the shorts and trainers he was standing in, the tent had gone, and when we went to report it to the police, they'd gone too!
To add insult to injury, wehad to walk all the way back to town because the busses had stopped running...
More recently, on the first trip I organised myself, we went for unofficial camping.
By the end of the race my mate had nothing but the shorts and trainers he was standing in, the tent had gone, and when we went to report it to the police, they'd gone too!
To add insult to injury, wehad to walk all the way back to town because the busses had stopped running...
Spent most of last Le Mans telling everyone how I would never buy a Speed 6. The (lack of a decent) noise and reliability issues.
Then had to buy the fastest TVR I could find (Tuscan S)because I couldn't keep up with the 911 GT3 in my Chim on the way back last year. Did manage a 2 hour detour back to Cherbourg trying to keep up though.
Then had to buy the fastest TVR I could find (Tuscan S)because I couldn't keep up with the 911 GT3 in my Chim on the way back last year. Did manage a 2 hour detour back to Cherbourg trying to keep up though.
andypowell said:
being overtaken at 130 like I was stood still by an M3 and a Scoob chasing each other, only to see my mate charge off in his Tuscan to go past them at 180(by all accounts)
Mmmmm - Tuscans......
Last year......
Broken car
2 days on the Transporter
Concussion
Trying to explain to my boss why I wasn't at a meeting on Tue morning, sitting in the transported cab next to some crazed french driver with dodgy brakes
Can't wait 'till June
Me doing something like this in 2004 no photies I'm afraid here's one of my Bro in 2002
www.blokesatlemans.co.uk/2002-23.htm
Silly sod did this two years running after a particularly violent Mad Friday session. The first year he did it he called everyone a C
t including my mates dad until he fell over. In the morning the Dutch contingent in the camp were standing next to him having their picture taken.
In 2002 it all started to go wrong about lunchtime and slowly built up to the point where he called a big biker bloke neighbour a poof at about 2am. Things started getting a bit serious so he did some serious back peddling and ended up singing barry white and madness tracks until about 5 am. Next morning he is unconcious in his camp chair soaked through with piss and puke and I wasted a whole saturday nursing him back to health. The other lads aren't that keen to have him around for some reason..
www.blokesatlemans.co.uk/2002-23.htm
Silly sod did this two years running after a particularly violent Mad Friday session. The first year he did it he called everyone a C
t including my mates dad until he fell over. In the morning the Dutch contingent in the camp were standing next to him having their picture taken. In 2002 it all started to go wrong about lunchtime and slowly built up to the point where he called a big biker bloke neighbour a poof at about 2am. Things started getting a bit serious so he did some serious back peddling and ended up singing barry white and madness tracks until about 5 am. Next morning he is unconcious in his camp chair soaked through with piss and puke and I wasted a whole saturday nursing him back to health. The other lads aren't that keen to have him around for some reason..
Last year I totally knackered my ankle on Friday afternoon, falling down the bank at Tertre Rouge, pissed, whilst watching the qualifying... I could hardly walk for days and picking up my new (second-hand) Esprit about three days after Le Mans was agonising.
Apparently, I ruptured all the tendons around my ankle, which was nice...
It was still painful around Christmas at times and I thought I would miss out on my annual skiing holiday, but fortunately it held out! Phew!
Lesson learned? I doubt it... Tertre Rouge, pissed again in 2005? Definitely!
Apparently, I ruptured all the tendons around my ankle, which was nice...
It was still painful around Christmas at times and I thought I would miss out on my annual skiing holiday, but fortunately it held out! Phew!
Lesson learned? I doubt it... Tertre Rouge, pissed again in 2005? Definitely!
We usually have quite a liquid Friday... One year 02? or possibly 01... I somehow "lost" my phone in town... When I got back to the campsite I thought I'd lost it in the cab... A less inebriated friend suggested calling it, which I did, luckily an English bloke had found it in town and was still there - I'd left some friends in town, in the main square... Got them to find them - my description of them "unshaven and grotty looking" - somehow he managed to find them!! Was a bit sheepish the next day... Esp. as I'd been a bit "off colour" in town as well..
The following year.... I was in a cab, on my way back from town, Friday again... Although I'd more or less learnt my lesson.. Found a mobile phone in the cab - asked the taxi driver about it - he thought it was an English persons phone... Said I should take it, luckily once I'd phoned one of the numbers they picked up and came and collected it.
Le Mans karma
The following year.... I was in a cab, on my way back from town, Friday again... Although I'd more or less learnt my lesson.. Found a mobile phone in the cab - asked the taxi driver about it - he thought it was an English persons phone... Said I should take it, luckily once I'd phoned one of the numbers they picked up and came and collected it.
Le Mans karma
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