ACO Areas/Grandstands

[Pistuphead]

First time heading to Le Mans this year with ACO area tickets, I can’t quite figure out the grandstand situation though. From what I can gather the ACO area ticket means you can sit in the ACO grandstands on the start/finish straight, it doesn’t seem like there are allocated seats so presume it’s a case of whoever gets there early doors can grab a seat for the start/finish of the race; anyone have any experience of this?

Edited by Pistuphead on Sunday 12th May 15:41

[Truckosaurus]

I suspect it will be something that lets you into the rear of the stand, to use the toilets, showers and food/drink facilities, but not into the actually seating area (which are all numbered).

They usually check tickets for the practice sessions these days too.

The other stands are a free-for-all on the practice sessions.

[Aysedasi2]

Pistuphead said:

First time heading to Le Mans this year with ACO area tickets, I can’t quite figure out the grandstand situation though. From what I can gather the ACO area ticket means you can sit in the ACO grandstands on the start/finish straight, it doesn’t seem like there are allocated seats so presume it’s a case of whoever gets there early doors can grab a seat for the start/finish of the race; anyone have any experience of this?

Edited by Pistuphead on Sunday 12th May 15:41

Er no.... The ACO members grandstands ACO (T18) and Durand (T17) are strictly members only and ticketed. During the practice and qually sessions if you have a stand ticket, you can sit anywhere in your stand (and probably in the other one, I certainly have). However for the race itself, you can strictly only sit in your allocated seat although as numbers thin out at the start and before the stand fills up again at the end, you can sit pretty well where you like until the ticket holder for that seat comes along and turfs you out! The ACO area ticket isn't a grandstand seat ticket. It gets you into the cafe behind the stands and gives you access to the clean loos and the La Chapelle area at Dunlop (and possibly a couple of other places). There is certainly no access to the grandstands T17 and T18 without a grandstand ticket.

[Pistuphead]

Cheers, that makes sense, when I bought the tickets it mentioned grandstand access but that was about all the information it gave so I was curious, must have meant you get the right to buy tickets in that stand. To be honest I doubt I’d use a grandstand anyway as I like to watch the start at the bridge and the finish at the Porsche curves. Not long now!

[//j17]

Aysedasi2 said:

During the practice and qually sessions if you have a stand ticket, you can sit anywhere in your stand (and probably in the other one, I certainly have). However for the race itself, you can strictly only sit in your allocated seat...

Grandstand tickets are explicitly "Valid 15 and 16 June 2024" only. At other times grandstands should be open/accessable to anyone.

[Truckosaurus]

//j17 said:

Grandstand tickets are explicitly "Valid 15 and 16 June 2024" only. At other times grandstands should be open/accessable to anyone.

Except for the pair of 'ACO' stands where they do limit access.