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Having got stuck in the wrong queue, yet again, our little party got home some time after midnight, and the cars got slightly damp as we got nearer to home. Quite fitting as we left in a downpour. After we got to the hotel on Thursday, apart from one short sharp shower on Friday morning, the weather was brilliant, as reported above.

A very big thank you to all of you who supported the event, not all with your Marcos -some intentionally without and some sadly not. We managed to squeeze 64 Marcos on the stand on Saturday, with at least four still out in the camp sites. We also found 4 Marcos on a French car club stand, one Mini Marcos and three coupes, and another Mini Marcos on another club site. And let's not forget the two racing Mini Marcos. That's where the 75 comes from that I'm claiming for attendance. It was great to meet so many Marcos owners from all over Europe, even though I struggled with my very rusty French trying to make our French owners feel more at home in their own country. I think I managed to get round most of the non UK owners to insist that they join us at the 50th Anniversary celebrations next year.

Track laps were amazing and I don't think I've seen so many grins on Marcos owners faces when they all got back to the stand, and there is always one jammy person who manages something that others can't, i.e. being ushered into the wrong lane on the way back from the laps and ending up back at the beginning of the queue to go out again, in spite of the bar code on the ticket registering that he shouldn't be there - I think it was probably easier to let the car go out again than to try to turn it around.

The organisation around and in the circuit for traffic flow and directions was a bit suspect, although with so many cars moving around all the time, it's a miracle that anyone ended up where they were meant to be. Never before at a circuit have I seen race cars returning to their paddock through what can only be described as a shopping street - only in France! And we even saw one of the returning race cars being driven over the ankle of one of other drivers who was pushing his car in the paddock, the other driver having decided not to wait until he got out of the way! The prize for the best organisation and hard work of the weekend goes to the two marshalls who positioned the cars on the grid for the first race of each of the 6 classes, lining them up for the traditional Le Mans style sprint to the cars - precision and authority at its best.

The racing itself was a very different experience from the '24 Heures du Mans', with three short races per class, and some of the machinery out there was quite awesome. I must admit that I didn't see that much of it, spending many happy hours on the Club stand. You can only do so much in a weekend!!

So, back to reality and the next big event ..........................

Thanks again, Isobel