Club Arnage

Due to the work load thrust upon me since New year, and the possibility of making some good dosh, I have given in(only this year) to greed. So I will miss LM 2012. I will however be watching on the telly.

I Hope you all have a fantastic Le Mans

Mike C

Same here. My last year in the motor trade so have lots of things to finish off before I can start my new career. We are also going to build a new house this year and want to be in before Christmas. I will be heading to Le Sarthe for the Classic in July though so all is not lost.
Deffo doing the 24hrs in 2013 though god willing.

What about the Classic Mike?

Lot shorter time away, I know we are down south, but it's only 2 days off work for us if we use the night boats.

Your ticket agent awaits the call ;) ;D

Ditto here - it will be my first miss since '04 :-\
Meesh & I will be going to Rhode Island second half of May to check up with her family & ship her storage to Rotterdam from Boston, and I don't think we'll get away with taking a month off work - let alone the financial part. We'll be back for the 10th anniversary of DfH though in '13, that should be worth it! ;D

Barry,
As much as I love to do the Classic, I am working that weekend.

I will be back next year.

Look forward to seeing you in 2013!

sadly, I cannot make this year either   :(

although I am hatching a cunning plan for 2013  >:D

I'm suprised that Kev mk3 hasn't contributed to this thread yet with his usual lame excuse ;)

Dont worries its coming  ;D in my opinion any excuss is a Lame one  ;)

plus it looks like i will be pulling the caravan down from Normandy with my teeth  :o

Nick,
I feel bad enough not going.

If this is cunning plan #1, then there's 6 more to dream up before one that works is found.

So many posts on here - looks like I better make it a 'sticky'

As has been well documented, sadly no trips to La Sarth this year for young Brad and I, but to coin a phrase.... Did I mention we are are going to Sebring?

Keep your S****** stuff to the relevant thread please, I'm on about cunning plan #10 for that event.
Will I ever get there? YES, but cunning plan 9b, with the guilt gambit, will take at least 2 years to come to fruition.

Hi Nick Maybe we can borrow the DONKEY from down the lane to Arnage  ;D
Phil

I can't go either.   :'(

Dx

Sorry Peaky, but I'm bored of hearing this.
Please send me an email with the REAL reasons why it's not possible, and I'm sure between Mr B & me we can resolve the cunning plan VERY quickly.
YOU WILL BE THERE!

I understand the reason behind Peaky's 2012 absence is summer used by use of the letters D I V O R C E.

I am not going this year too.  No excuse really, just not going.  Absent for first time in around 15 years I think, maybe more.

Will be at the Classic tho and probably back for 2013.

F

 :o :o :o :o

See you in July.

He..he i like the idea of the Donkey Phil.

Mike im not letting you off that easy  ;D

Damn sorry about that, but I'll see you in Florida in 9 weeks I beleive. :)

Indeed you will.  I had to console myself somehow...   ;)

Dx

that and work being a four letter word - sorry chaps

So there is a good outcome then!  :P

Not sure about that, add alimony to the budget, and it's an expensive motor racing trip.  :o

I'm not coming in June.

I am going somewhere else to compensate though ;)

Are you sure they will let you into the good ole USA?

Well last time I went, I got pulled into a little room and interrogated for an hour before they'd let me out the airport....turns out my fingerprints have the same initial reference points as a wanted terrorist.  Lets just say, that when the photo of the wanted man came up on the officers screen, it was immediately obvious that the person they were looking for, was not me :)

Other than that, I believe I am clear to travel....unless the hire car company checked the tyres of the car I hired from them.... :\

Can't make it this year, but will definitely be going next year.

Just look out for the chap with the house-sized rucksack staggering off the tram next time round.

  Any update on your plans Nick?

Nope still planning on coming this year, but i do need to find a job as my contract was extended until May and thats it. Told the mrs im not going to the family wedding that weekend as 1. I cant stand the groom 2. Lemans has better atmosphere, cars, beer, the gimp & sun

yes i will be there but not pulling the Caravan with my teeth, have sorted other means and No Phil its not the Donkey

Nick

Al has changed for the better. I'm now almost certainly going this year subject to my raising enough cash to do it.

currently not going but I may change my mind and go on the Bike!

Wow, that's a lot of familiar names bailing this year.  I've sensed a general lack of apathy over the past few years as it slowly dawns on a lot of us that the LM we once knew and loved has changed forever - the relaxed locals (esp. the gendarmes), the chavs, the quality of the racing, the costs/economic climate, the theiving, Mad Friday (now more like 'dickheads Friday'), the prawn sandwich brigade etc.  I guess it was about 05/06/07 that the rot started to set in.

Looks like we'd be better off starting a thread of who actually is going!

I'll be there, but what was once a party of 7 is now just 3, and for 3 days not 5/6.  I could see this being the last one for a while and I think that once you stop there is possibly no going back.  

  

There's only nine on the list!
2 can't go 'cos of arrival of child/grandchild, one's in NZ, and one never goes anyway! Net loss 5.
Yes it has changed, as it has done every year since 1927, but it's still the only place you can see LMP's in a 24 hour race, so it would have to get pretty grim before I stopped going.

JPS, have you thought about doing the Classic, still reasonably civilised.

I agree, but who are the prawn sandwich brigade?

And don't forget the pikeys and the corporate hospitality

Prawn sandwich brigade = Corporate hospitality ;)

I agree with Barry. While every year is different there have been some really great races in recent years and dare I say some of the changes have made things better while others have not been to our liking. Sometimes it's too hot and last year was pretty cold and 2001 was very Wet...and through them all I have met some good friends and we have had a ball.
Canada Phil

At the heart of it all is great racing and that is what keeps me and the core of our group coming back.  I think the future for us may be alternate years LM and LM Classic.

Brad What the hell kind of avatar is that? SportsCars my man SportsCars  ;D ;D
Phil

At least he has one, Phil.   ;)  What's that saying about people in glass houses and stones... ?

Dx

Can have great fun with stones?

t

Add 1 more to the list of no-shows. Not going to make it this year, not even trying. Dublin is to much fun to go to some lame race in France ;D

Now back to me Guinness

There is always the Classic, you then still get to visit a race and take back your dodgy remark...

>Martini...LB

Im still not out of the race yet TBH mainly due to the fact ive had no news on if im jobless from the 1st of June or not  ::)

Well I'm out....................

Way too busy with work to sort out everything that needs to be sorted, also now out of the classic weekend as well.

Race will be there next year and the classic will be there in 2014.

Now off to find a cupboard to hide in for the next few months ::) :-[

I'm also out. My job was made redundant at 5pm Thursday. Got my ticket already for the Silverstone Classic though so if anyone's going I will see you there!
Ho hum!

I'm gutted for you.

Hope to see you at the Silverstone Classic.

Not good news Steve, hope it all sorts out and we see you at a circuit asap.

Thanks Ade & Barry
I'm not hiding under any stones and will be out and about as much as possible. (Particularly at Silverstone).
My list of things to do around the house seems to be growing by the day but I'll also be finding time to carry out further development work in the man-lab and will be getting round to stripping down and re-building that oily lump that once was a Rover V8 3.9
See you around!

Steve

Bugger. Sorry to hear that your Lordship. Not sure about our appearance at Silverstone Classic this year. Will give you a holler if we do though...

Bugger indeed! My solicitor is working overtime at the moment (with associated eye watering costs coming my way). Costs aside Wishy and I are thinking the same things viz: (a) compensation / settlement and (b) Corvette.
Simple I thought until the venerable Lady Steve had thoughts of bathroom refurbishment.
I don't want to be clean, I want a Corvette and I don't mind being dirty.

I am the sensible one in this relationship aren't I?
Aren't I?

Alas Still no joy on work so im considering myself jobless yet again from June 1st................  >:(

Ive 6 interviews this week but putting the sensible head on and realising what the current job market is like i shall not be going to Leman to the 24hr.............. this year which to be frank I am now very f%%ked off about.

Dad has my order for tickets for 2013 and what ever job i have / get im booking 2 weeks off for it so i will be there even if im in a coffin!

Never mind that your Worship, what about my bloody Monster Munch (Beef flavour)?

Hi Steve,
            Yes you are the sensible one. After all these years it will not be the same without you.
Canada Phil

Mercenary!

Thanks Phil
I'm sorting out viewing and listening options for the duration (Eurosport, Radio LM etc) and for a degree of authenticity might just install everything under the gazebo in the garden. At least the beer will be chilled.
Back next year I promise.

Steve

I will be there after all.

Arriving Tuesday afternoon and staying on BN.

just couldnt stay away!

Good for you Stu......To be honest I still live in hope of a late reprieve.....

That's the spirit.

Come along Steve, you know you want to.  >:D