Le village re-work

[Kpy]

KPY, first drawings that I've seen.  As you say much will be complete by 2007, any ideas if there will be "temporary" facilities for food and drink, I guess there must be!  Quite like the look of the restaurant overlooking the curve up to the Dunlop area, I guess that replaces the dust bowl of seating that use to be there.

Will the Poo Bar still be in this area?  Where can a chap get a chip baquette, kebab and bottle of poo!!

The ACO says the Village - minus the Welcome Center, whatever that is, will be ready for this year's race.
The area to the north of the new permanent Village buildings is reserved for food/drink and sales stands. No reason to think that there won't be a Poo Bar - all the catering, apart from the  restos at the paddock end of the old Village (ie the good ones),  is sub-contracted to a big outside caterer. They operated the old Poo Bar.

[Barry]

Latest photos on the ACO website show that they have pulled their digits out.
Landscaping being done , roads going in, gravel put down.
Obviously not Aussie contractors.

[Andy Zarse]

With respect Barry, I think Multiplex could have done better with one arm tied behind it's back. OK, yes, the track looks more or less done, and absolute rubbish it is too! There's one photo of the tractor grading the kitty litter at the Dunlop chicane. It's like a scene from the prairies of Canada. The tribune looks about a mile away in the distance.

Also the new tunnel looks spiffing on the surface, but pedestrians will be walking on the raised paths and that handrail doesn't look very strong, so expect some broken bones. Oh and there's one shot which shows the tarmac is less than an inch thick...

With regard to the Village, words fail me. The Moto 24hrs is in a few weeks and there's nothing but a ruddy great mess. It would have looked no worse if the UXB had exploded. I can't imagine the lovely new building will be ready for June, unless they are total lash-ups. And God forbid that any Frenchman be allowed to work for longer than 35 hours a week...

[Barry]

As Kpy says, new welcome/restaurant building not due till 2007.
As most of the facilities I use are of  tempoary nature, ie poo bar, bars, food outlets, I don't think there will be to much of a problem for June, as it looks like the areas for them are going in now.
 

[Steve Pyro]

Having looked at the lastest villages photos, most of the new buildings look to be prefabed galvanised steel / precast concrete construction.  This type of building can be erected and fitted out in a jiffy.

There appears to be a fair bit of new landscaping going on, with young tree planting and hard landscaping being carried out.

[Ferrari Spider]

Having looked at the lastest villages photos, most of the new buildings look to be prefabed galvanised steel / precast concrete construction.  This type of building can be erected and fitted out in a jiffy.

There appears to be a fair bit of new landscaping going on, with young tree planting and hard landscaping being carried out.

Steve, is there a Charlie Dymock trying to get out there   Doesn't seem much alteration around the ACO welcome centre, the roads look the same layout, nice fresh granite chippings, just waiting for 1,000,000 smashed green bottles dropping from the wall

The new buildings that back onto the track look quite nice, I wonder if the pompier bar will be reinstalled.

[Lorry]

This is just the usual chaos.  None of it ever looked finished, and I'm tired of lectures about air bubbles in the concrete and exposed Re bar, and how it would all be condemned in the UK.

If necessary they'll tie together some pallets to make the poo bar