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Hey all,

Looking at making the trip over to France for the Le Mans 24 Hour race next June. Just wondering if anyone has made the trip before?? If so, just wanted to know what you thought of it, how you arranged your tickets/accomodation etc.

Thanks

Dane

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Im going to be over there for the rugby World Cup so was lookign at it. Tour de France is on the list as well. Only lookign at Le Mans its quite expensive...so have to weigh up that combined with teh Rugby its going to be expensive...probably cheaper to go to a few European GPs.

Their website has plenty of info. A friend from work has done it in the 70s...he says its a must for racing fans

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I went in 2004 and it is not expensive.I think it was Eur$110 for grandstand seating at the chichanne before the main straight. Accommodation can be the killer for the budget. I may be going myself next year if the budjet permits.

It is worth going no doubt about it. I managed to get past security and made my way over to malsanne straight. Prototypes doing 360km/h at 8am is a great way to start the day!

best of luck

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Thanks for the info guys.

I saw ticket pricing for the this years event and it was similar to what you mentioned gtscruiser. I expect accomodation to be a real killer, but I guess there's not too many option in that regard. I'll book veru early with a travel agent and hopefully get a decent price.

I'm hanging to see the RS Spyder!

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There is plenty of accommodation around. It's not a tiny little town in the outback. There are plenty of pubs in the area and smaller towns close by. Malsanne would be the place to stay as its at the end of malsanne straight, hence the name. There are a few tour operators who cater for this and many other events in EU.

The spyder would be a sight but the new LMP's are unbelievable.

If you like enduro racing I'm going to the Wakefield 500 with friends on saturday/sunday 25th November. If you want to hook up for a beer over some racing drop a line

cheers

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I imagine there would be a lot of accomodation, but I also imagine they'd charge through the roof! But hey, if it was me I'd do the same. I'll look into these tours as well, thanks mate. I went to enquire about it through a travel agent on the weekend, but all the packages aren;t available for about a month, so I'll find out more then.

I'd love to see so many of the cars in the field... but I'm a BIG Porsche fan, so I'm hanging for the Spyder and RSR's

Thanks for the offer at Wakefield mate, but I'm in Victoria, so won't be making the trek up unfortunately...

Cheers

Dane

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When are you flyign out? Im buying my tickets the first week of Feb. Are you going solo or with friends, maybe work well if we pool together to get good digs/accomodation?

For the Porsche fans... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M11GOVfA50

I'm flying out on the 13th I think, arrive the 14th into london, then take a bus on the 15th into Le Mans, and come back on the 18th. I'm going with a few mates, and this coach tour place organises all accomodation etc for us.

I'll find the website for you as apparently places are filling up... just need to decide which grandstand to sit in!

nice vid btw, I've just recently watched an in car 956 DVD, it's tops :)

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