Hats off to Werner & Team
Download works and Donation is on the way.
I hope I'm allowed to link to the donation page again from Ten Tenth Chatroom like in previous years.

Have a great LM and safe travels !

I think , there was a fatal crash in the mid to late 90s. Just not in race but practice . I don't remember much of it though. Perhaps this one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=Q623g1mKpdE

That's the in car cam from the directly following Vette. Right before AS gets over the curb there is some sort of twitch in the car, just like he hit a bump. Just a little movement of the car, but there.
Then he gets onto the curb, possibly caught out from the twitch a bit and tries to correct it.
But then the car turns in abruptly, another try of countersteer but the car snaps completely. I have the feel that this was a puncture or suspension failure where I am more behind the sudden puncture than the suspension. I guess we will get to know the exact reason in a couple weeks time.

As been said before the race gets held partly on public roads with public areas around. The ACO has bought land in some spots, that's where you find more run off. As for the area around Tertre Rouge, I think there is a roundabout where the Bughatti circuit joins the Hunaudiere towards Mulsanne with public non ACO owned area. Please correct me if I am wrong there. A tirewall here might have helped significiantly.
Also the AS accident reminded me a lot to Tim Bergmeisters accident at Fuji last year in many ways. You can find it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjKmdC28oWA

I felt the safety car was overused and three safety car groups didn't help it either. Unfortunately, the procedure destroyed some GT teams hope early and finally ruined the GT Pro battle completely. Also Toyotas chances of catching up with the Audi flushed down the loo further with each safety car and finally cost them a full lap. If anything, it showed that you can't win purely based on fuel consumption strategies but need some speed too.

Personally, I wonder if it is a possibility, like at the N24, to operate under locally waved yellows with a significiant loss of speed in the responsibility of each driver passing by. Sort of local code 60. With all the telemetry data and gps it should be easy to detect if a driver bumped the limit. Who doesn't play along the rule gets a hurting penalty.

A sad 90th anniversary in many ways.

Godspeed Allan.

Rest in peace Allan Simonsen. My sincerest condolences to his next of kin. 

Breakfast here . Getting excited with Warm-Up just a bit over 2h away !

I should get me a red flag and raise that one in honour of red flags   

I only can hope we don't get to see a N24 2013 style red flag period throughout the LM24   

Hmm, got enough vanilla pudding, drinks and tea. I should get me some food today. On the other hand, I got enough strawberries to survive a weekend too ... Strawberry milk soon  ... I guess, I will end up with with the mad dash to the supermarket between the legends race and pre-race like last year haha

Here is another home guard since I am saving up for the IoM TT in 2014.

If you lads and lassies like, you may want to join in at the ten tenth chatroom throughout the Le Mans week. We are a friendly bunch of chatters who all share the passion for the 24h as well. You can find it at http://www.ten-tenths.com/chat/index.php , just make sure you enter a username and come visit us.
The sites irc web client is a bit lazy at times so I'd recommend using an irc client software like mirc, chatzilla, icechat or joining through browser based clients like mibbit. By using mibbit you can join directly through the following link:
http://chat.mibbit.com/?server=irc.phishy.net&channel=%23motorsport

With classic software clients the adress is:
URL: irc://irc.phishy.net/
channel: #motorsport
port: 6667

See you there.
Greets,

Andy

Hello Werner and all contributors to the guide. A big 'Thank You' to all of you.
The 24h wouldn't be the same without these lovely gems like your guide or Andy Blackmores spotterguide.

Like in previous years I have linked to the guides donation page in the Ten Tenth Motorsport irc chatroom I am running and keep the link there until after the race. I expect a 'full house' from today afternoon so I hope that one or another will follow the link. Of course, I'll remind the chatters about your beautiful guide in between too, whenever the question for sources gets raised

My donation is on the way.

A sunny and safe LM24 to all of us, who go or follow it from home.

Cheers,
Andy

Hi Werner and Lawnmower Man

It works like a charme now  Big THANK YOU . Have drink or two
Also confirmed by my buddies at Ten Tenth Chatroom that it works now. Glad it got sorted.

As I already wrote to Werner I put the link of the Donations page into my welcome message at Ten Tenth Chatroom and intend to leave it there till Monday after the race.

Enjoy Le Mans

Cheers,
Andy

Hi Lawnmowerman,

excuse me please if I annoy you with the issue.
Meanwhile, I downloaded again with similar result. But now I asked a bud a Ten Tenth Chatroom too, to try it for me. And he gets the same result like I do. So empty pages and error messages for him too.

If the file is perfect on your side maybe it gets scratched somewhere during transfer up or down here. Perhaps you can try and put it into a zip file so that it isn't the pdf directly which gets hit in the www between your and my computer

Thanks for the heads up Lawnmowerman.

The first time I tried at noon yesterday but I put it aside because I had other stuff going on. Around 4pm I gave it the first try, which did not work so I downloaded the file and tried again.
Then I carefully scrolled through the file which gave me several error messages about missing pictures , not enough information of pictures to be displayed and again some empty/half empty pages such as page the CA Donations page (p7 in Adobe). It says "Call for Donations - Please help to support Club A" . Then the page goes empty blank white till the foot line with the page number 6.
I then looked if perhaps my Adobe Reader ain't up to date but it insisted that it is the latest Adobe X 10.3.1 and that it is fully up to date. So I tried downloading it again but came across the same errors. At this point I shut my laptop and went downstair to my Dads puter to do the routine there because I was convinced that the laptop would be playing tricks. But I got the dead same at my dads puter as well. I have checked Adobe Reader there as well but it is fully up to date there too. I then wrote the list and let you know and let it be for the night.

I just have tried downloading it again but it seemingly got worse even. There are a couple more pages not showing up with two error messages constantly showing up. First is
"An internal error occured" closely followed by "Error on this page. The page does not show up properly. Please inform the maker of your document" after hitting the ok button.
I can create a third error message too if I try to print the document because it then tells me that there are faulty pages and the document cannot be printed.

I hope this helps.

Cheers,
Andy

First off, a big thank you to all involved. My annual donation is launched   ... and the 7th edition is almost printed except for a couple quirks I encountered.

While printing the guide I came across a couple errors, which were not to solve by just downloading the file again or using another printer/puter combo. I have downloaded the 2012 guide a couple times now but there are a couple errors within the pdf file that may have happened during export, it seems.

Here is my list of what does not work:

p.7 CA Donations - contains header line but then it is empty till foot line
p.26 the 4 classes - there is an flickering issue with everything below the first picture which leads adobe to state that there is an issue with the picture and the site cannot be printed
p.41 blank page
p.72 blank page
p.77 blank page
p.81 one picture shows up everything else flickers while scrtolling over it. same error message like the p.26 one
p.114 half blanked out page
p.131 blank page

I can`t print the entire file once because Adobe insists that it cannot read some pages. If I break it up and I still empty pages but at least I get most of the guide printed. I keep getting Adobe error messages about empty unprintable sites though. Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Andy