Smart Car London to Le Man 24 Hour Race
July 8, 2008 · Print This Article
Some call us mad or insane for driving around in those “things” (ha ha), Well here’s the maddest of them all, London to Le Man for the 24hrs car race.
Starting off on a Monday afternoon and heading out from home in East London with a suitcase of clothes for the week sleeping bag and a Marshalling bag was fun in its self, just room for me. Setting the trip to 0 it was off I go through the Blackwall tunnel to meet up with the others at Maidstone service area on the M20 to avoid the nightmare that is the M2.
Pulling into the service area to a round of laughter and you are mad I tell them that I maybe mad but cheap. After a Fill up it’s off to get the 20:15 Sea France crossing (They are still doing the deal if you have crossed in your smart before). Oh well no duty free this trip theirs no room. We arrived in Calais at 22:30 Pete the one with the sleeping area on the back of his car has planed the route so its now a convey with me having the advantage of a Left hand drive car (not so mad now) was told your at the front oh well so I get told the top secret route it Haute Picarde for the night so off down the Peage at a cost of 10 euros but at least it got us a place to stop and food. [pay]
Tues Morn dawned sunny and bright and off we go, just to make sure of getting to the route N137 to Le Man I filled up at the great expense of 6 euros which is about 3 gallons worth of fuel. The others have gone ahead so I’m now doing a 130 km chase to them (dam missed the turn) oh well its a good job that my late wife was French and id done this run so many times before so I went over the N29 to Avanche to meet up.
Taking the road to Rouen we found the tunnel closed following the diversion we get back on track as we leave Rouen behind us we take the road to Le Man after an 8 hour drive we get to Post 70 the way in is through the woods ok lets take this slow.
Once I know the tracks in the wood it was let the Smart go these tracks at between 30 to 60 mph where some very good fun but then most things are in a Smart. The total trip was 1102 miles all done in Footix Deux.
See you all around sometime and stay SMART.
Submitted By
Dave [/pay]
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