Boozing it up in the evening after watching motorcycle action on track is the normal part of some fan’s pastime when they attend race weekends, but those attending this weekend’s hottest race of the motorcycle endurance world championship calendar, the Le Mans 24 Hours, are in for an unpleasant surprise.

The prefect of the Sarthe district where the famed circuit is located, has decided to come down hard on the sale and transportation of beer and hard liquor in thirty surrounding townships during the endurance race, and that means that fans will be be able to introduce into the circuit only two liters of second class alcohol (beer) and no more than one liter of hard liquor per adult.

“The controls are going to be tight,” warned the prefect Pascal Lelarge. “Do not come to circuit with alcohol. Don’t bring three bottles of whiskey or forty cans of beer. You have a good chance to having them confiscated at any moment. “

Local restaurants will be allowed to sell beer with less than 4% alcohol content and gas stations will be prohibited in selling any type of alcoholic beverage.

Apparently the idea behind this initiative is that curtailing the sale and use of alcohol during race weekend’s will hope tone down the somewhat inhebriated crowds and convince families to return to the circuit and watch some exciting racing.

Source | motosblog.fr

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