Best route to La Mans

[nitrousruss]

which is the best route, Calais to La mans, is it Calais to Rouen then down to La mans(is the new a 28 open)Rouen to la mans. or down to paris then across to la mans

thanks Russ

[up-the-dubs]

nitrousruss said:

which is the best route, Calais to La mans, is it Calais to Rouen then down to La mans(is the new a 28 open)Rouen to la mans. or down to paris then across to la mans thanks Russ

Here I go again, couldn't resist!

It's LE Mans. Get that wrong and god only knows where you'd end up!

[maxf]

Don't go via Paris.

Just do what we did. Drive slowly when leaving the tunnel/ferry port. Wait for british sportscars to pass. Make chase. Arrive in Le Mans.

[neilsie]

via Rouen is the shortest and prob the quickest with the new road open..

[up-the-dubs]

Speedchills.com have a route guide on their website. Follows the autoroutes as far as I can see. Thats what we're doing.

[N17 TVR]

neilsie said:

via Rouen is the shortest and prob the quickest with the new road open..

Except I have been advised that the new road isnt scheduled to be open for a while yet...

[Toe Tags]

Back in April, the new road looked nothing like complete - and knowing the French, I'll be amazed if it's finished for next week....

[Roy C]

Watch out for the speed cameras.

The route planner on ViaMichelin shows them.

[Tripps]

We took a twisty route on D roads running roughly half-way between Paris and Rouen, we had great fun hooning around and enjoying some fantastic police-free roads, so will be doing it again this year

I'd guess we lose two hours or so against the autoroutes and likely spent whatever the toll charges were on the extra fuel we used.

All depends on how much time you have really...

[rev-erend]

My plan is to give the Kent boys 10 mins head start at the port ..

That should give me nice gendarme clear roads ..

[foster3jd]

Roy C said:

Watch out for the speed cameras. The route planner on ViaMichelin shows them.

Excellent site... have just made note of the two camera sites going in and out of Rouen

[Tripps]

rev-erend said:

My plan is to give the Kent boys 10 mins head start at the port .. That should give me nice gendarme clear roads ..

We've got it all figured after the incident coming back from Cardiff, Nick will be in front then we'll all tailgate him so he'll get all the flak

[nitrousruss]

Thanks for the replies.... I think the best advice was, get off the ferry, wait for a group of sports cars then follow.. so if anybody is going over on p&o thurs. 16th on the 11.15 and you spot a green chimaera following you out of calais, its only me..

[rev-erend]

Tripps said:

rev-erend said: My plan is to give the Kent boys 10 mins head start at the port .. That should give me nice gendarme clear roads .. We've got it all figured after the incident coming back from Cardiff, Nick will be in front then we'll all tailgate him so he'll get all the flak

Excellent - it will be like a SNCF Euro train..