Our little visit to Spa this week.

[shimmy]

I managed to get away from home on Sunday and pop over to Spa on Sunday. left home 10am, 12.20 Eurotunnel, Raddisson Blu Palace, Spa by about 5pm.

AlexGTT, Northern Jim and his Ford RS crowd chugged up about an hour later from the Ring and drinking and eating ensued. Evo guy had blown a turbo on his first lap at the Ring so he was carless.

Next morning I had a headache and it had been raining all night so all the dreams of a clear bright warm morning had disappeared .

Numbers were very low at the track, no queues whatsoever and slowly during the morning it dried up. Lunch was early at 12noon and by the time we got back onto track it was bone dry.

Managed two good sessions in the dry with passengers including Jim. Maxx had taught me some new trail braking tricks on a couple of complex corners which I was trying to master meanwhile battling with anything I could find.

scared Jim with a bit of wide angle drifting at Pouhon (although he may say I spun at 100mph ) but as you'll see from the forthcoming video I never spun and never stopped and recovered ...... sort of.......almost.

Well after that the Heavens opened and the wind never picked up and the track never dried again so we had to make do with some fun laps and some tail happy fun at the hairpins.

There was a CGT there (black Uk '4 JWC' i think) and it probably did the most miles out of any car. It was out every hour and rain, drizzle, greasey, dry or all of the above. Hats off to the man as he was power sliding out of the bus stop and La Souce every lap and was absolutely on it.

If any body knows him tell him he was my 'star of the day.

Big up to Chris, Teffers and the boys at Circuit Days.

[shimmy]

Drinks again Monday night and some great grub at L'Auberge (I made the mistake of thinking it was cheap as Curly ate there last visit).

Lazy Tuesday morning and Alex and I headed off to Calais about 1pm, 30 minutes after the RS boys drve off (we thought we'd give them some distance). Clear roads and straight thru customs, managed to get on an earl train and home by 6pm

There were a few track crashes and a couple of red flags, but not bad bearing in mind the conditions. A 7RS lost it at Eau Rouge and back it not the barrier on the left hand side up the Kemmel, a Twingo smashed up really early on and there were quite a few cars that give up the ghost on the side of the track.

[shimmy]

[s.mac]

vid

[s.mac]

nice write up and from the texts I got from Jim it sounded a good one
Shame about Pauls turbo

[shimmy]

Originally Posted by s.mac

nice write up and from the texts I got from Jim it sounded a good one
Shame about Pauls turbo

Yep you would have hoped it managed more than one lap of the Ring

[s.mac]

I think the drive from Aberdeen isnt tame and the last twenty miles following Jim up that bad road fooking kills any car

[shimmy]

Originally Posted by s.mac

I think the drive from Aberdeen isnt tame and the last twenty miles following Jim up that bad road fooking kills any car

Yeh, not sure why Jim decided to do the 4th stage of the ADAC rally just before arriving at the Ring

[Jaw_F430]

Good to meet up with you guys and thanks to Alex for the passenger laps

[shimmy]

Originally Posted by Jaw_F430

Good to meet up with you guys and thanks to Alex for the passenger laps

Good to meet you too,