Is Everybody Staying on Houx

[Some Gump]

^under terte roughe is as good a route as any.

Don't even think about leaving after the race on sunday. You'll go nowhere.

[enzo]

Thanks guys just making sure you could access from that end. Unfortunately we will be trying to get out on Sunday. May have to leave someone with the engine running in a bank job style "go go go"

[ukcobra]

Will be on Houx for the first time this year, with the Flying Baguettes as usual.

Arriving around 2.30am on Thursday morning, will try not to wake anyone. Or if everyone is still up and partying, we'll join in :-)

[aricus654]

Will be on Houx for the first time this year, with the Flying Baguettes as usual.

Arriving around 2.30am on Thursday morning, will try not to wake anyone. Or if everyone is still up and partying, we'll join in :-)

Please don't wake me, I will be getting some beauty sleep ready for the Brethren Party on Friday!!

Aricus

[aricus654]

Thanks guys just making sure you could access from that end. Unfortunately we will be trying to get out on Sunday. May have to leave someone with the engine running in a bank job style "go go go"

Last year was very bad getting out - Houx, Houx Annex and Airtarck Village and this year the new Epinettes campers will all be getting out onto the same road.

I have two suggestions.....

Option 1 - get out of the car park and onto the road and go South and then turn onto the Mulsanne straight (- try not to drive like an LMP car!) - this road gets opened very quickly after the race.  Then pick up the excellent "getting away from the race" route in the guide. I did this last year and once out of the gates (which took hours) it was great.

Or

Option 2: park at the Central train station in Le Mans on Sunday morning (see the the thred  Parking in Le Mans on Race Sunday in the Help section of the forum - thanks cja - or somewhere else near a tram stop) and take the tram out to the track and back.

Option 3: keep the engine running.....

My plan is to do option 2 this year.

Any other ideas welcome.

Aricus

[enzo]

Is this your option 1 route Aricus i was thinking this might be an option if heading north is jammed.

Thanks guys just making sure you could access from that end. Unfortunately we will be trying to get out on Sunday. May have to leave someone with the engine running in a bank job style "go go go"

Last year was very bad getting out - Houx, Houx Annex and Airtarck Village and this year the new Epinettes campers will all be getting out onto the same road.

I have two suggestions.....

Option 1 - get out of the car park and onto the road and go South and then turn onto the Mulsanne straight (- try not to drive like an LMP car!) - this road gets opened very quickly after the race.  Then pick up the excellent "getting away from the race" route in the guide. I did this last year and once out of the gates (which took hours) it was great.

Or

Option 2: park at the Central train station in Le Mans on Sunday morning (see the the thred  Parking in Le Mans on Race Sunday in the Help section of the forum - thanks cja - or somewhere else near a tram stop) and take the tram out to the track and back.

Option 3: keep the engine running.....

My plan is to do option 2 this year.

Any other ideas welcome.

Aricus

[aricus654]

Is this your option 1 route Aricus i was thinking this might be an option if heading north is jammed.

Thanks guys just making sure you could access from that end. Unfortunately we will be trying to get out on Sunday. May have to leave someone with the engine running in a bank job style "go go go"

Last year was very bad getting out - Houx, Houx Annex and Airtarck Village and this year the new Epinettes campers will all be getting out onto the same road.

I have two suggestions.....

Option 1 - get out of the car park and onto the road and go South and then turn onto the Mulsanne straight (- try not to drive like an LMP car!) - this road gets opened very quickly after the race.  Then pick up the excellent "getting away from the race" route in the guide. I did this last year and once out of the gates (which took hours) it was great.

Or

Option 2: park at the Central train station in Le Mans on Sunday morning (see the the thred  Parking in Le Mans on Race Sunday in the Help section of the forum - thanks cja - or somewhere else near a tram stop) and take the tram out to the track and back.

Option 3: keep the engine running.....

My plan is to do option 2 this year.

Any other ideas welcome.

Aricus

Enzo,

Exactly.

But the exit from the camp site is limited by the traffic going north on Chemin aux Boeufs.  I think it was about 2 hours for 150 metres for me last year if I recall correctly.

But once out onto the road and going south there was a 5 minute queue at the next roundabout and no other queues after that at all all the way back to my house.

The "getting away after the race" will be worth its weight in gold if the traffic problems mentioned on other threads are accurate. Whoever developed it needs me to buy them a beer.(any takers?)

(I also saw very bad behaviour on Houx with cars driving around the back to push in nearer the exit gates and that made me lose all my chill that I had got over the trip.)

Aricus