New to Le Mans last year we sorted some tickets out with Just Tickets, being a little weary of the tales of woe of camp site toilets, we decided to take their offer of 'welcome' hospitality tickets for an extra £20 so that we needn't walk around holding our beers with hands covered in crap and up to our ankles in p*ss...
So we were taking in the atmosphere and wondering around pretty aimlessly on the Sunday, when one of our crew decided to walk into the area behind the pits... Handed over his 'welcome area' ticket and walked right in. Looked like an interesting place to see so the rest of us did the same.
Not sure if we were supposed to get in that bit, but nobody questioned our tickets. Now when we exited that area through a different gate we all received some other type of ticket for re-entry. No problem we thought... we'll keep hold of them... Walking about a bit more it was getting close to the end of the race so we tried to find a spot to watch between the grandstands... as we tried to find a good spot, one of us notices some wording on our new tickets that matched the wording on the grandstand entrance... Hmmm.... over he walked, the ticket was taken off him and up the stairs he went...Looked like an interesting place to see so the rest of us did the same.
Getting into the grandstand opposite the pit exit was pretty cool 'cos I'm sure we didn't pay for that... but to find just a few rows back four empty seats all together next to the isle was a WS moment!!!
So there we sat buying beer from the beer chap and supping as we watched the last couple of hours of the race from grandstand seats ... perfick!
Not bad for an extra £20!!!
