Booking for 2008

[termietermite]

Deb

you have PM

Nick

So do you.

[astonfan]

is houx annexe avaialible next year or am i better offer just going for maison blanche?

4 weeks from now the race will be starting or is it? because in france they are an hour ahead so we will actually be 1 hour into the race? how many pugs left i wonder!

[termietermite]

is houx annexe avaialible next year or am i better offer just going for maison blanche?

4 weeks from now the race will be starting or is it? because in france they are an hour ahead so we will actually be 1 hour into the race? how many pugs left i wonder!

If you fax your application on 3rd June to the ACO, then you should get Houx Annexe.  That's the date that '08 booking opens so nothing will be reserved before then.
15.00 start this year (14.00 your time!)

[rcutler]

Houx Annexe has been doubtfull for the last couple of years but it now looks like this really will be the last year of Houx Annexe. There may be an alternative but it will not be as good.

My suggestion is to put Houx Annexe down as your first choice then MB as your second, I would however choose a third option otherwise YOU WILL get BSJ.

I will be annoyed if people from HA get MB over and above dedictated MB'ers next year.

[termietermite]

Interesting, Rick.  Are we certain that the whole of Houx Annexe is for the chop?  As much as I look at the tramway/stadium plans, I can't see that the whole site gets affected.

[rcutler]

Isn't Houx Annexe the ground that is to be used for parking for the stadium they are building nearby or on HA? I understood that the tramway would only utilise this ground as overflow parking?

As far as I know the stadium was the main reason.

[rcutler]

This one due to open in 2009:-

Babelfish:-

The new stage A pole of sporting excellence is born in the south of Mans. Joining together on the same site all the large equipment of sports and leisures. The new stage, sporting arena, dedicated to football and Rugby, but so cultural and hotel.



The Leon-Bollée stage, which accomodates the meetings of football in the district of the Madeleine, cannot increase his capacity for reasons of safety, circulation and parking. This is why a new stage was decided. It will find its place on the site of Antarès, already rich of a hippodrome, a road racing set, a track of karting, a golf and a ring cyclist.

This new equipment, which will be delivered in January 2009 for a startup in August, will count 25000 seats for the sporting meetings, 41500 places for the spectacles, 1330 parking bays (without counting the 4400 places of Antarès), a hotel of private initiative of 65 rooms two or three stars.



It Will cost 50 M Euros, financed to 50 % by Mans, 25 % by the department and the area and 25 % by private investors.

[rcutler]

For my 2000!!!! post,

You can even see the image of the cars lights in the bottom of the last picture.

[termietermite]

As I say, I've looked at looked at the plans on the LM (not the race, the city) website to try to see what this involves.  I know that there is a huge stadium car park involved but what is not clear is if or whether it will be usable during the race as a campsite/car park or both, and just how much if any of HA is affected. In frustration, I've just e-mailed the ACO to ask them.  I will see what transpires.

I don't know HA at all.  Scroll down on this forum
http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=283180&page=2
and there's an overhead shot of the location of the stadium.  What does it say to you?

[rcutler]

Looks like about a 1/3 will be used up by those shots. The only problem with places like that they always expand.

[Steve Pyro]

I will be annoyed if people from HA get MB over and above dedictated MB'ers next year.

As I get tickets for both sites, I guess I'm alright then 

[nickliv]

I will be annoyed if people from HA get MB over and above dedictated MB'ers next year.

Well, you shouldn't keep telling people how good it is then!

Just out of interest, does anyone know when LM08 will take place? 15/16 or 22/23 of June?

Ta.

[rcutler]

I will be annoyed if people from HA get MB over and above dedictated MB'ers next year.

Well, you shouldn't keep telling people how good it is then!

Just out of interest, does anyone know when LM08 will take place? 15/16 or 22/23 of June?

Ta.

My money is on the 15/16th.

[Barry]

As is mine.
PQ on the 1st June.

[Piglet]

Og God, please save us from the endless debate about next year's date.  I can't bear it....