I don’t know about the rest of you heading North after Le Mans but we had a ‘bit of bother’.. Luckily we were not using the A28/A13 so didn’t fall foul of the monster peage queue.. luckily we decided to amble over Le Pont de Brotonne and avoid Rouen. That makes a nice detour by the way ..but there is no fuel to be found on it.
Luckily we had a ‘pathfinder squadron’ some way ahead telling us that there were other monstrous bouchons around Calais and you could not get to the Ferry Terminal without going most of the way to Belgium! Luckily we baled out in time and came in through the town and across those bleak unkempt warehouses and umpteen railway lines.. remember them !?
We think we know what happened .. Having practiced on a traffic management plan that meant our man in Le Mans took two and half hours to get into the circuit on Saturday, we did no better coming in from Arnage, they finally knew they had a cunning plan. The moment that last Peugeot expired at Le Mans somebody was on the ‘phone saying “We have zee crap Le Mans .. so let’s make sure zee rosbifs do too.. iz peety we can’t get to zee Germans but we can seriously peez off zee sousands of Brits who go to Calais.. so .. allez vite and get out as many traffic cones as you can find in Northern France and whatever you do don’t give them a clue that anything is wrong .. that is not what over head autoroute signs are for…OK”. To give them their due they did a superb job with this bit, they may not have been able to win the race but this ‘phase two’ assault and rear guard action on the fans was very impressive. It might still backfire because an awful lot of grumpy French got tangled up with this debacle.
Finally we have all recognised that les gendarmes are taking speeding rather seriously nowadays ..but how many men hiding in bushes and cars did you spot ..we got upto around ten … what is the highest score?
That really is it for Le Mans .. we may well fire up for LMS and other stuff now the site has been reshuffled .. So keep an eye on the blog and get on with planning 2011!
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