Le Mans 2022 - Ayse's Story
Page 23 - Sunday 12th June - The Night is Over (But There's Always Breakfast....)
We agreed to meet back outside at 9 am, which gave us plenty of time to have a shower and change - but not to fall asleep (as that would have been fatal). We made the (very easy) decision to head out to Arnage again, not to the circuit but to Le Feuilette for a spot of breakfast. Feeling as tired as we did, the coffee was a wonderful tonic..... After that, we arrived back in Parking Blanc at around 11.45. We were a little surprised to James F's car there and not only because he was parked in my spot... Fortunately his space was still free so we parked there instead. Bicycle man came over to check and I managed to explain that we had inadvertently swapped our parking spaces. I had expected a long debate over this, but he wandered off, perfectly content....
This was the first sign we had through the whole of the weekend that James F had made it in to the race, so we assumed that he was at least feeling well enough to do that. Unfortunately he hadn't taken part in any of the communications on the Team DoT Whatsapp group since one brief note on Saturday morning before we all left for the circuit despite being able to see them all, so we had no idea where he was or how he was getting on. Despite setting the group up before the race in 2019, it really hadn't been as successful as I'd hoped when I did it. Our little 'sub-groups' had already become somewhat fragmented by 2018 and sadly this initiative didn't solve the issue. We did have to communicate with James F though as we noticed that he had left his car window wide open. James sent him a message on the group which he quickly replied to.
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