Le mans burnouts.

Mon Jun 16, 2008 4:03 pm

Spent about an hour watching allsorts of cars doing burnouts on the way up to the circuit, there were some very good efforts . If the two e30's were off here Good Efforts boys.

Mon Jun 16, 2008 4:08 pm

links?

Bet I know one of them. Adam pulled upto one roundabout (I went AWOL!) and one of the locals put alcohol under his wheels to help, Later Adam returned to the campsite to inform us some dumb local had put it under the front wheels of a rear wheel drive vehicle however I suspect either they were trying to light the car on fire or they thought it was an Orion.

Nice UK grey caged e30 spotted in Arnage while I was having my lunch though. Thursday or Friday IIRC was quite drunk.

Mon Jun 16, 2008 4:26 pm

the blokes doing this one were dressed in red and white with a super soaker to spray the road and tyres. There was another a bit further up the road with some brits doing the organising by the go kart track.

Tue Jun 17, 2008 8:17 pm

Nice UK grey caged e30 spotted in Arnage while I was having my lunch though. Thursday or Friday IIRC was quite drunk.

That just may have been me !! I went across and had a ball of a weekend, well until the local plod caught up with me....oops

Tue Jun 17, 2008 8:49 pm

Very council!

Tue Jun 17, 2008 9:13 pm

Rosc0PColtrane wrote:Very council!

One week in LeMans leads me to believe that the whole event is very council, some of the general behaviour was appalling and I'm not talking about the driving, thats expected.

Thankfully wasn't just the British as a drunk Dane proved when he tried to start a fight in the Super U. Shamefully though his English whilst drunk and trying to fight was enough to shame some of the English I heard from some of the British patrons, I swear I lost 50IQ points and half my vocabulary whilst there.

Tue Jun 17, 2008 10:28 pm

Definatly a lot of scumbags there this year.

A burnout in the volvo on dry tarmac just doesn't work. But it slid around on wet grass with ease on the sunday evening

Wed Jun 18, 2008 9:08 am

y8sey wrote:the blokes doing this one were dressed in red and white with a super soaker to spray the road and tyres. There was another a bit further up the road with some brits doing the organising by the go kart track.

I was one of the Brits who were with the Danish chaps with the super soaker outside Technoparc. We got pretty good at keeping a wet line across the road (using everything from water, orange juice, beer and even fairy liquid) and getting just about everyone to try a burnout (including locals in 2CVs and the like). Even the train carrying people around the track had a go! A few tasty e30s came through, one white saloon that I've got pics of somewhere that did a proper job.

There was another group further up the road trying to do the same, but with little success! We also got joined by some idiots later, one of which started watering down the front wheels of every BMW that came through until someone pointed out the obvious too him. We also had a guy in an M6 stop for a try, but then admitted he didn't know how to turn his own traction control off. Oh dear...

Wed Jun 18, 2008 9:11 am

Jon_Bmw wrote:Definatly a lot of scumbags there this year.

Very agreed. The other group I mentioned above was composed entirely of pond scum. Our little burnout zone was very well natured and friendly - the other lot resorted to throwing things at passing cars and generally acting like tw*ts. It's a shame that these people give "Brits Abroad" a bad name...