Here is a chance to be involved

[Grand_Fromage]

The Club Arnage editorial team were chatting over a few beers recently and forming our strategy for the 2006 vingt quatre heures. One of the things that came up was a way to involve CA forum peeps in what we do for the ACO.

You probably know that CA provides the English editorial for the ACO's own site 'www.lemans.org' and has done for the last four years. We are annually imprisoned in the press room for the duration of the race without access to the normal comforts of the regular race fan. We have a TV feed, a timing screen and a window to peer out of but depite all that, it's often hard to work out what happened when a car just fails to come around and doesn't appear on any of our screens.

This is where you guys come in. If an incident happens right in front of you, you almost certainly have a much better idea then we do of what transpired. All we need to do is give you a method of telling us. 

What is proposed is a text-to-email gateway were you can text us your observations to a mobile number and we get that on our screens like a news ticker. You can text us anything interesting or worth a comment or two. We can also get pics from your phone if you like. We might even set up two feeds, one for serious on-track incidents and one for jolly chit chat.

If you think its a worthwhile idea we can make it happen.

GF

[Robbo SPS]

Sounds like a good idea.

Most people carry their mobiles now.

I'm game

[Sooty]

I was just looking through the Radio Le mans site to see if they had a similar facility, then I found this thread!
I think its a great idea! The number of times over the years you see a car crawl passed with a puncture or smoke pouring out and no one knows for 5 minutes!

Sign me up

[DelBoy]

Excellent idea.

Can't promise any input as I always seem to be in the wrong place when something dramatic happens, but with enough people willing to contribute, it should work out well.

What about information sent out from you guys - do you have (or could you have) a link-up with Radio LM so that we could get the info as well??

Del

[championaudi]

sounds fair to do our bit ,
let us know how!!

[Grand_Fromage]

I'm planning to link-up with RLM too, so they should benefit from the
same info.

Excellent idea.

Can't promise any input as I always seem to be in the wrong place when something dramatic happens, but with enough people willing to contribute, it should work out well.

What about information sent out from you guys - do you have (or could you have) a link-up with Radio LM so that we could get the info as well??

Del

[Nordic]

Sounds like a good idea.

I guess we could text in details to a central number? You do run the risk of getting swamped with messages at certain times.

[Steve Pyro]

Dave, I regularly trawl the length of the track during the race and always make at least one visit to Arnage and Mulsanne corners.

Sounds a great idea.

[Grand_Fromage]

If we do the text-to-email thing, we will be able to cope with a fairly high level of traffic. (we hope)

I'm planning to link-up with RLM too, so they should benefit from the
same info.

Excellent idea.

Can't promise any input as I always seem to be in the wrong place when something dramatic happens, but with enough people willing to contribute, it should work out well.

What about information sent out from you guys - do you have (or could you have) a link-up with Radio LM so that we could get the info as well??

Del

[mgmark]

We're probably trackside for at least half of the race, and foray out to Mulsanne corner, Indianapolis etc as well as the main drag from the Porsche curves through to Tetre Rouge.   Just let us know what the number is in due course.........

MG Mark

[Perdu]

A very good idea. I will be happy to join in too.


Oh yes, nice new front page picture. 

[Rhino]

Seems an excellent idea to me, as long as people don't start overwhelming you with pointless messages.

[Lorry]

What pointless messages.  Can you get us requests played on Radio Le Mans?

This seems an excellent idea, as news takes ages to get through to Radio Le Mans, who must be getting it from the ACO.  Lets use the resource and the techology.

[Lawnmower Man]

Oh yes, nice new front page picture. 

But the GT40 replica link made a loud bang and smoke poured out of my monitor.  A really good reason to go for a wiki.  :-)

Tom.

[wishy]

Brilliant idea,having comitted spotters........... when sober ,to let you know what is going on.........not only that I guess that with a link to RLM .........CA might just get a few plugs during the event!!!!!!

Wishy