Well what can I say it was awesome!!!! Great bunch of people. Great driving. Everyone safe. Big thanks to Ben once again.

Crazy busy at the mo so can't expand but will do later.

 

From the sounds of things it was a great weekend, I only made it down on the sunday (just as the rain stopped!) and enjoyed four laps of pure vtech-ing and some amazing grip from the Bridgestones! its nice to know that all your "little" mods work!

Some guy came up to me at the end of the third lap and told me he had heard my car going around the corner at pflanzgarten... thank you HKS!

 

I got back at 1.30am this morning. Spent most of the journey back on a recovery truck. Car in the dealer now being fixed...... more news later

Will sort pics of the meet and get them hosted and posted today at some point!

BIG thanks to Ben for organising stuff, Richard for being there when I needed it, and EVERYONE else for making it a brill time.

So summer..... ARE WE THERE YET???


PICS are UP!!

http://www.s2kuk.com/meets/ring/

 

 

Euroassist is good (despite the feckers trying to wriggle out of honouring the policy) Story to follow, just sorting the pics....

 

Bloody hell - it was eventful then!?

First things first........Big big thanks to Ben for all the organising, meals, routes, and that invaluable first sighting lap Cheers fella

You'll have to forgive the quality of the photos too as err, focussing a camera in a Tuscan in the rain isn't easy!

Ferry on the way from Hull to Zeebrugge.......



We arrived at the Belgian meet point on Friday morning, 2.5hrs late due to the ferry getting lost. Cheers for waiting for us Richard and Ian!

Hit the German boarder about 40mins later, naturally the speed increased Speed decreased quite rapidly when the front spoiler fell off it's mounts at over 150mph Bit of gaffer tape and a change of underwear later and we were on our way again!

Got to the ring early afternoon.......


Parked up and took a few shots.......




I met this 512 Ferrari on track on Saturday afternoon, spotted him through Brunchen and spent the following 3km catching him before carrying a bit more speed through Galenkopf(last corner) and passing him on the straight!

Some more of Brunchen corner.....


Murcellago about to be passed by an Evo


Big thanks to Mark and Richard for letting me tail you around, showing me what a quick lap looked like!

Saturday brought a misty, damp start - so the first lap of the day (Fourth in total)was a little twitchy

Following laps got quicker, and a little more ragged(sorry Mark for the slide/lock up going into Adenau Bridge)

More photos....




How busy..........


Then after a few ales on the Saturday evening........ the parade lap....
Tim with his very loud pipe!


Blurred but a great convoy - AE is the first car....


Useful following Tim following err more cars


Sportyking following Kobe......


We shot off after this on Sunday and drove up to Brussels.....


Then headed off to Zeebrugge on Monday afternoon.......


Got back at 10am this morning, after a thoroughly enjoyed and fantastic trip!

I can't wait to get back there

Cheers again to all

 

Did you spot any breadvans? A guy from the z3mcoupe.com forum was over there and said there was another parked up too...

 

I didn't realise they still employed street urchins to scrub the decks...

 

Yep - saw a few of varying degrees of modification

There was a silver one, and a black with silver stripes going at a fair pace

Fastest car was the EDOS Porsche who made me feel very inexperienced - I left Bergwerk corner - accelerating past 120mph, then this blur of black and yellow went past as if I was standing still

 

glad Euroassist finally did the decent thing..

will send you the pic from the hard shoulder..


btw.. this is my favourite pic of the trip,

where we buried Ben..