ARNAGE/INDIANAPOLIS

ARNAGE  - INDIANAPOLIS CORNERS

MUST DO IF POSSIBLE    

Well worth going here to see night practice or any time during the race. It is also very ethereal at about 0500 “O my God” time when it is sometimes slightly misty as the cars “roar” through the trees into the Indianapolis turn (or not as the case may be) then quickly arrive at Arnage Corner and then scream away up towards Porsche Curves some 3 kms up the road. A breakfast of sorts (coffee, omelette, frites and rubbish tomato sauce!) can be had from one of several temporary cafes just below the banking. Again this viewing area has a Circuit TV screen.   


PARKING at Arnage/Indianapolis  all depends on which field car park the stewards choose to put you. It can be either a 2 minute or a 6 minute walk to the Arnage Corner entrance. You then walk through a ticket gate - General Entry Tickets work on the whole Circuit, at all times.  You just have to be scanned in and remember to get scanned out or the ticketing computer gets all confused and you end up practising your French!!!


AGAIN - You must have a Mulsanne/Arnage Car Park sticker (about £18) to get in the field car parks  but ….in 25 odd years of going, there seems to be no fixed rules…just what the Stewards fancy doing. See GENERAL LE MANS WARNING below.


BACK TO WHERE TO WATCH
  GENERAL LE MANS WARNING
No two Le Mans stewards react the same - 
be they checking for glass beer bottles at an circuit entrance or letting you park in a carpark you have already paid for! Everything is totally subject to the vagaries of the French ACO Stewards. This will become a recurring theme so just get used to it.  As you can imagine, a circuit this big, over 8.5 miles, and all its outer areas needs hundreds of stewards. There is turnover and inevitably some are not as well briefed as they should be. 
 So patience “mon brave”!!!.... it’s all part of the charm of Le Mans!  
Have another beer and calm down!
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