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billytkid

First time thoughts

Hi all, I went to LeMans for the first time this year with my eldest child, thanks for the great help before we went! Our plan was to sleep (ish) overnight trackside, wrapped up and under ponchos.

I did have some thoughts now we've been:

The good:

  • Access to the track without grandstand tickets is amazing, there were so many options of where to watch.
  • The atmosphere was great, more festival than race day.
  • The merch was way more reasonable than I was expecting (30eur for a baseball cap isn't bad)

The not so great:

  • Toilets... Utterly appalling under investment in toilets for 300,000 people. Queues everywhere and very small.
  • ACO membership gets you noting at the event (unless you pay more) - I knew this in advance, but still..
  • Very few dry places for non grandstand/package users. The weather was awful and the only place we could fine that was dry was in the family area, seemed a shame that everywhere closed over night apart from the bars. Maybe we missed something?

Overall we had a great time on Saturday, but we left Sunday am because of there being no respite from the weather.

We'll go again, but will rethink the sleeping arrangements.

Did we miss any things that could've helped?

Posted Jun 16, 2024, 6:23 PM UTC

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