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As a regular attendee to the race, I STRONGLY advise giving the area a wide berth unless you specifically need to go to the town region! This event is on a scale that is hard for many to imagine, more like the Rio Carnival than a mere F1 GP, or a major football match! The town and many nearby villages fully embrace it, closing roads and staging numerous supporting events! Most of the 2 day race (it's 24 hours from Sat afternoon until Sun afternoon) circuit is actually (closed!) public roads, and practice and qualifying sessions before the w/e race are on the same circuit, so major detours are in place when these roads are closed - they don't work particularly well TBH, painfully difficult to drive! With a near 14Km long circuit, there are many viewing points that fans like to visit, and they tend to drive, so local roads are horribly congested.
Le Mans town has a resident population of circa 145,000, the race attracts a crowd of up to 350,000!!! To say it gets 'busy', in the town, on the approach roads, and surrounding villages, and even as far as the channel crossings as some 60-70,000 Brits attend, is a gross understatement! It's common to sit in traffic for hours going nowhere - I've done it too many times!
Give it a wide berth from a few days before w/e, until the following Tues by which time it's pretty much all returned to normal.
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Topic: Le Mans
