Le Mans '12 | Joey Adgie 1-12

phil1993 · PostPosted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 10:24 am

ellis wrote:

Haha. I'm on the bus from Scotland to Manchester, where I get picked up. Off to Stoke where I'll stay the night (and watch the Canadian GP). Then we set off tomorrow morning for Portsmouth. Having food and apparently watching the England game in a pub (I fear for my life). We get the overnight ferry to Le Havre (fuck the Dover ferries) then arrive noon/afternoon in Le Mans. Aiming to be setup in the warmest point of the day since its meant to be raining. Similar story on the way back, I'm a day late in arriving home compared to everyone else.

Sounds like a trek! From here I could get to Le Mans in the same day

Say hi as you come past, you'll be quite close to me tomorrow

Portsmouth should be fine, just go to a good pub.

Oh yeah, getting to central France is far easier doing Portsmouth-Caen (or Le Harve!)

ellis · PostPosted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 10:57 am

Portsmouth the city doesn't doesn't bother me, but being a Scotsman in a pub full of English fans watching England v France? That's going to be a bit uncomfortable.

I've got two Saltires packed, I should totally take them into the pub.

phil1993 · PostPosted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 11:02 am

And while you're at it, why not take in your haggis, Irn-bru and start yelling 'OCH AYE THA NOO', just to make doubly sure I see you on the local news tomorrow night

It should be fine, although it depends where in Portsmouth you'll be. I don't know it *that well* but there's nicer areas than others, as there always are in big cities. Southampton is better though

Brendan Kaczmarek · PostPosted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 2:57 pm

Eddington mains wrote:

Nah.. He's walking the whole way.. Braveheart style!

I bet Brendan's journey is shorter and less stressful !

You'd say that!

Driving from Allentown, PA over to Newark, NJ where I'm leaving my car and selling my soul to the parking gods for $18 a day or something absurd. Then flying Newark to Montreal (on F1 race day, I think I've slightly misjudged that

). Montreal to Paris puts me in CDG around 8:30 Monday morning. I sit and wait for an hour and a half to meet a fellow marshal with whom I'm splitting a rental car and then we head to Le Mans, should be there around 14:00 Monday!

ellis · PostPosted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 3:01 pm

My bus had a blow out at 50mph. Bit scary. Sat in the rain for 90 minutes, made a new friend lol. Replacement bus arrived, it's a tour bus!

Morrisons phoned me and asked me to work too. Not a chance.

Schumifan · PostPosted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 3:18 pm

phil1993 wrote:

And while you're at it, why not take in your haggis, Irn-bru and start yelling 'OCH AYE THA NOO', just to make doubly sure I see you on the local news tomorrow night

It should be fine, although it depends where in Portsmouth you'll be. I don't know it *that well* but there's nicer areas than others, as there always are in big cities. Southampton is better though

Problem with Portsmouth is that the shit areas vastly outnumber the nice areas.

deggis · PostPosted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 8:41 pm

(not mine)

phil1993 · PostPosted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 8:44 pm

Schumifan wrote:

phil1993 wrote:

And while you're at it, why not take in your haggis, Irn-bru and start yelling 'OCH AYE THA NOO', just to make doubly sure I see you on the local news tomorrow night

It should be fine, although it depends where in Portsmouth you'll be. I don't know it *that well* but there's nicer areas than others, as there always are in big cities. Southampton is better though

Problem with Portsmouth is that the shit areas vastly outnumber the nice areas.

I don't know Portsmouth that well. I know Southsea, Gunwharf Quays and where the ferries sail from.

Southampton > Portsmouth. Not biased

deggis · PostPosted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 2:20 pm

JRM will have onboard stream: http://www.jrm-group.com

Quote:

Fans will be able to follow the progress of car #22 live throughout the 24 hours of racing from a camera mounted on the front of the team’s Honda HPD-ARX-03a.

Interspersing the coverage will be live interviews from the pit lane with World Series by Renault pit lane reporter, Gemma Scott, to give a complete insight of JRM’s debut Le Mans 24 Hours race progress. Gemma will be catching up with the drivers after each stint, mechanics as they follow the race in the garage, plus following any news stories live from the pit wall with insights from chief engineer, Nigel Stepney, and team owner, James Rumsey.

Coverage will start immediately before the start of the race at 15:00hrs CET on Saturday 16 June and finish just after the conclusion of the race at 15:00hrs CET Sunday 17 June.

The stream will also be shown on http://www.crash.net and http://www.speedhunters.com

ellis · PostPosted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 5:10 pm

Hello from a very wet La Sarthe.

phil1993 · PostPosted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 5:12 pm

ACO continuing to mock me.

Also, AUTOSPORT have put up their 50 favourite cars
http://lemanscars.autosport.com/

If you don't have PLUS, I could list them, so that we can bitch about the list.

ellis · PostPosted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 8:00 pm

So that SRT tent we were discussing.

Just found it a moment ago.

Wininturnone · PostPosted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 8:13 pm

phil1993 wrote:

Also, AUTOSPORT have put up their 50 favourite cars
http://lemanscars.autosport.com

There's one missing.

deggis · PostPosted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 9:23 pm

phil1993 wrote:

If you don't have PLUS, I could list them, so that we can bitch about the list.

I don't have Plus and I could see the list.

First GrC Jaguar 28th? wat

phil1993 · PostPosted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 9:24 pm

Oh I thought it was a premium article, obviously not.

I'd have this higher up
http://cdn.images.autosport.com/special ... /v2/37.jpg

But only because my friend had a model of it and it's so good

Fish88 · PostPosted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 9:25 pm

Always love the Rolex ad every year. But this year it is freaking epic!

deggis · PostPosted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 9:49 pm

What ad?

StanV · PostPosted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 9:50 pm

I agree with Autosport's number 1, but seriously, every one of those could be on every other position. Just great to see all of them in one compilation

"The Lancia LC2 doesn't figure so high on this list for its results at Le Mans or anywhere else. It's here because it was an Italian thing of beauty, swathed in Martini stripes, and because it was a glorious failure."

:lol:

The BMW V12 LMR

So slick

Fish88 · PostPosted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 10:07 pm

deggis wrote:

What ad?

Yeah I can't cap but they shown it during the Le Mans show on Eurosport. Some good use of old and new footage.

StanV · PostPosted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 10:17 pm

Guys, need your advice. My exam on Saturday starts at 2PM, so 1 hour before the start. We have 3 hours to finish, so the latest possible time I will have finished is 5PM which would mean I am home at +- 5.30PM.

Now: should I ignore all internet and watch the start + first hour, or just turn on the TV and watch live immediately.

Don't know what to do

Blergh, sucks so hard to have an exam on Monday as well.

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