[LM24] Ways of using internet trackside Le Mans?

[GTfour]

If one would take a laptop to LM,what ways would you have to use the net when there? Does the ACO have an hour to hour site for instance?
Or else use bluetooth and keep an eye on Ten-Tenths?

[paul-collins]

As far as I know, there is no public wee fee trackside. I've been told that you'll need to visit an internet cafe in town to get your fix...

[The Badger]

Where is there a cyber cafe in the town ?

[Suze]

I think the only place is the press room....but you can get reasonably close there with a GA ticket, but it costs.

[Go_For_Pole]

No WiFi in the press room this year! Besides internet for the press is not free at all so there are passwords et all

[Suze]

Yes know it's not free, hence saying "but it costs"

[paul-collins]

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[Truckosaurus]

Originally Posted by paul-collins

Adresse du Cyber : 3 rue Hippolyte Lecornué

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One of the things I'm most looking forward to during LM week is not having to answer the phone or look at a computer screen.

[GT6]

Le Mans is an escape from Work, taking a lap top with you would not be my idea of a break, All the info you want is available on RLM and on the screens everything else is not important and should be left at home

[GTfour]

Originally Posted by GT6

Le Mans is an escape from Work, taking a lap top with you would not be my idea of a break, All the info you want is available on RLM and on the screens everything else is not important and should be left at home

So true! I was enquiring for dj4monie who's taking his laptop everywhere he goes...

[isynge]

Originally Posted by GT6

Le Mans is an escape from Work, taking a lap top with you would not be my idea of a break, All the info you want is available on RLM and on the screens everything else is not important and should be left at home

I can see where you're coming from, and agree to a large extent, which is why I wouldn't want to have a work machine with all the attendant "temptations" to fire up Outlook etc on there, but the opportunity to periodically have a quick look at what DSC or the live timing is saying on a handheld would have a certain appeal. I remember coming back from a forgettable Donington lunch last year and having to spend a good 20 minutes or so in the grandstand trying to figure out who was where based on the Pescarolo pit board (thankfully they used an old school one rather than the new digital ones that are really hard to read from an angle).

Okay Le Mans has its big screens and RLM, but having something as a fallback would be nice.

It would also in many ways be nice to share the experience of LM through a forum such as this with the folk watching on TV. I've always found the viewpoint of someone on the ground to be enormously beneficial.