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As you will have
read, my first visit to Le Mans was in 1986. And 20 years later, in
February 2006, I finally scanned and added to my site most of the other
photographs I took in 1986. When I first started my site, I had a whopping
5 megabytes of space available to me. Now it doesn't take a mathematician
or even a computer whizz to work out that 5 meg doesn't allow you to put up too
many photographs! So, 20 years after the event, with rather more space
available to me, I can finally afford to let my other pictures see the light of
day. They've been hanging around in wallets and albums, and have
deteriorated a little, as I guess they inevitably would. But as a
photographic record of my first Le Mans - a Le Mans with little or nothing in
the way of debris fencing, the ability to wander to places you just can't get
near today without a media pass and with Grand Marnier crepes costing about 75
pence, those definitely were the days!
And
as you can see from the above two shots, my love affair with Le Mans at night
started on my very first visit. This shows you the fantastic view that was
available looking over the fences at the Hunaudieres Restaurant and the
Restaurant des 24 Heures. And I can even identify the car in front in the
second picture!
See
what I mean about those views? There is no way you could get views like
this from Arnage and Indianapolis these days without a media pass!
And
what are the chances these days of just happening upon one of the leading (but
sadly retired) cars in the undergrowth? Not much - as you can't get to
that part of the circuit any more.....
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