👥 Your Teams
Le Mans is a team sport. This page is about the people who make it what it is.
Most people who come to Le Mans don't come alone. They come in groups — pairs, small gangs, extended families of friends who have been doing this for years. Over time these groups develop their own identity, their own rituals, their own running jokes that make no sense to anyone outside the group.
They become Teams.
Some teams have proper names, proper kit, and a flag they've been planting in the same corner of the same campsite since 1997. Some are looser — a group of mates who happen to book together every year and have somehow never stopped. Some are massive, spanning multiple campsites and coordinating via WhatsApp groups that are mostly GIFs and arguments about which supermarket to go to.
The Beermountain community is made up of dozens of these teams. Some have been coming since the very beginning. Some are on their first year. All of them are part of what makes Le Mans what it is.
This page is where we collect their stories.
🏁 Team Beermountain
The original. Team Beermountain is made up of the founding members of Beermountain and the people who started building this website.
Most of them don't make it to Le Mans as often as they used to. Life, as it tends to, got in the way. But they are there in spirit at every race — in every tip on this site, every campsite review, every piece of advice that has helped someone else have a better weekend.
The mountain endures. The team lives on.
🐢 Team Cornish Turtles
A group of friends from Cornwall who have been attending Le Mans together for many years with one members first visit being in 1976!.
The Cornish Turtles are a sociable lot — genuinely one of the friendliest groups on site — and they have a habit of drawing others into their orbit. If you spend enough time around them, you may find yourself being formally inducted into the Order of the Turtles.
🐢 The Order of the Turtles
The Order of the Turtles is a real and ancient drinking fraternity with chapters worldwide. The initiation involves answering a series of riddles correctly — all of which have an obvious rude answer, and all of which have a perfectly innocent correct answer. If you get it wrong you must drink. If you're at Le Mans and someone asks "are you a turtle?", you had better know the correct response. Find out more about the Order of the Turtles →
🏎️ The Bonn Jewwer Crew
A team with a name that raises questions and a Caravan that answers them. Their first trip was in 1995 as the Bonn Jewwer Boys and then morphed into Experience is Key. Those were the golden years on Maison Blanche. They then rebooted the Bonn Jewwer Crew from 2023.
The Bonn Jewwer Crew are setting up camp on Epinettes this year, arriving in some style in their new Gulf-liveried caravan — which, if you're not familiar with Gulf colours, means it is an orange and blue scheme made famous by the Ford GT40 and Porsche 917 — is one of the great motorsport aesthetics. A full-size caravan wearing it on Epinettes is going to be impossible to miss. It might not be the original but it will be there.
This years crew is a solid twelve-strong outfit:
👥 The Roster
With a MasterChef and a Chippie in the same group, the campsite catering situation is either going to be excellent or deeply confused, or is Chippie a carpenter? Techmaster will presumably be in charge of anything that needs a cable, Zurvivor will be the last one standing on Sunday, and nobody has yet explained what Delboymel did to earn that name.
If you're on the site, go and say hello.
📍 Find them: Epinettes campsite, 2026. Look for the Gulf caravan. You won't need to look very hard.
🏎️ Team Tatanus
Team Tetanus, alias "Lemons Does Le Mans" -- since 2010, a cadre of (mostly) Americans have made a habit of pausing our own cheap-car races to come watch pros race their expensive cars in France, usually in even-numbered years. If you're a 24 Hours of Lemons racer, ask around and you'll eventually find out how to join us. If you're a 24 Hours of Le Mans fan, don't be surprised if a Yank near you in a seemingly-misspelled T-shirt expresses a lot of sympathy for the over-tired mechanics in the wee hours of the night, as we've likely done it ourselves with much, much worse cars.
📣 Is Your Team on This Page?
This page is just getting started. The Beermountain community is made up of dozens of teams — some well established, some newly formed, all with their own stories.
We want to hear from you.
If your team attends Le Mans — or the Le Mans Classic — and you'd like to be featured here, get in touch. Tell us:
- Your team name (and where it came from)
- How long you've been coming to Le Mans
- Which campsite you call home
- Any traditions, rituals or running jokes worth sharing
- A photo if you have one
The best stories will be added to this page. The more ridiculous the better.
📨 Get Your Team on This Page
Contact us by email and tell us your story. We'll do the rest.
More teams will be added to this page as they come forward. If you've been attending Le Mans for years with the same group and nobody knows who you are yet — now is your chance.
