Le Mans 2010 - Ayse's Story - Page 7
Wednesday - Free Practice Continues
I took my first shot from Tertre Rouge just before 6.30, two and a half hours into this free practice session. Tertre Rouge is now probably the best spot on the entire circuit for the amateur photographer, not fortunate enough to have a media bib to get them inside the now ever present debris fencing.
The weather had improved dramatically so that the circuit, initially still damp when the session started, was soon fully dry and as the session moved into its last hour, the sun was shining and it was still very warm.
Having watched from Tertre Rouge for about an hour, we finally walked down from the spectator banking and up onto the raised area looking back up to the Dunlop Bridge. I still struggle to look at that scene as it has now become without wanting to have the old rundown to the Esses back.
The session finished at eight o'clock and we saw it out at this spot. We hadn't eaten for ages and in true Tourist style I'd spotted a handily placed eatery between Tertre Rouge and the Esses banking, so we walked back there for dinner. The verdict? Nice chips, but the merguez I ordered turned out to be a saucisse (just as happened to me at Arnage on the Sunday last year), but I was so hungry I couldn't be bothered to go back and complain.
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