le-man

[calummcculloch]

as title .anybody going?
will be staying in Airtrack from Friday night , first time so any look outs ?????

[Ceveman73]

I presume you mean Le Mans?

Yep I'm going, but I'll be in my black HSV Holden with grey Aussie beer graphics all over it!

See you there!

Mart.

[RESE28]

I'm going.........red RS6 avant sporting black viper stripes On the Friday morning (6am) chunnel crossing, staying in maison blanche.

[RESE28]

as title .anybody going?
will be staying in Airtrack from Friday night , first time so any look outs ?????

Take it steady in and around Rouen there is always lots of 'le plod' waiting to relieve you of your euros

[Billiemapped]

as title .anybody going?
will be staying in Airtrack from Friday night , first time so any look outs ?????

Take it steady in and around Rouen there is always lots of 'le plod' waiting to relieve you of your euros

+1 been there got the T shirt X 2

[calummcculloch]

cheers for the heads up.

thankfully going portsmouth to caen ,
Will keep an eye open for you all , lets hope its a good one

[500PLUS]

Going Tuesday staying on Team Lanoustine site, look out for giant prawn Stickers on the car....there will be police every where they have changed the laws over there.

[Phill R]

Taking mine out on Thursday via tunnel. Camping at Mulsanne.
I thought the new laws weren't coming in until September.

[Billiemapped]

Taking mine out on Thursday via tunnel. Camping at Mulsanne.
I thought the new laws weren't coming in until September.

What new laws ?

[500PLUS]

Here laws etc
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topi ... ome+advice

Yes now coming in september, but it will be chokka with police.

[sonny]

im out on the Thursday to Sunday. 0815 ferry crossing. Will be in Grey RS4 stickered up. Staying at MB

[Shoppinit]

Just a few tips based on my experience, as I have a house in France so regularly drive through france (and get caught).
4. In my opinion do not go over 160km/h (100mph) on the motorway. If you do you can be fined 500 on the spot fine, banned from driving in france for a few months, have your licensce taken away and even have your car impounded. I speak from experience.

40kph+ above the speed limit is an instant ban. They will take your licence off you. If you have a "spare" then you're OK

8. You can get fined in France if you 'hog' the outside motorway lane when the middle lane is free.

Bollox. But it's a good idea not to anyway, obviously.

9. Be very, very, very nice to the police if you get pulled over. I have been let off on three occasions this way.

Kiss ass big time. French police can be real cnuts and they aren't at all like the nice coppers we have in England. Don't for God's sake try to talk back.

10. Do not take any form of speed detection device with you.

Radar detectors are illegal. If you get caught with one, however unlikely, then the consequences are quite severe. Vehicle could be seized. THe device will probabyl be destroyed on the spot (no doubt under one of the coppers boots).

BUT... GPS radar detectors are NOT illegal. Yet.

So this is what I would (and do) do. Get a tomtom go LIVE device and buy a subscription for the radars. This way you will benefit from the huge network of Coyote users in France (real time mobile radar warning system) since tomtom signed a major deal with them.

There are very few patrol cars, but they are becoming more and more frequent. Unmarked patrol cars are so rare that you might as well just forget about them. BUT there are plenty of police bikers, and they love to come up behind you.

Be VERY suspicious of any vehicle parked on the side of the road. Look at these photos, enough said:

http://radarmobileardennes.forumactif.c ... -en-france

They love to hide under motorway bridges, too. Like Trolls.

If you want to have some fun, get off the motorways and A roads and find some decent B roads to play on.

[Billiemapped]

Tres excellence

Merci beaucoup Monsieur SHOPPINIT...

[Ian_C]

So in a nutshell take it easy around Rouen and don't go 50 kph over the speed limit? Coming home last year we headed cross country East almost as soon as we'd left Le Mans town itself. Wanting to do the same again this year.

[seanypeeps]

Hi boys not going exactly but i'll keep an eye out for you as we are doing a charity drive down to Monaco and our first stop is on the Fri night just past le mans so i'll be keeping an eye out on the Fri and Sat. Hoping there will be a few intresting cars around last time we got past by an orginal GT40 is Gulf livery sounded sooo good.