Spa 6 Hrs and RingTrip Blog

[dinkel]

Cheers Gram, greet to meet. Hope they'll sort out the Cerb out for ya. Luverly looking machine. I'll send all pics I've made of the car to you. The battery switch-trick was inventive. So good to see we all really liked to help TC out. For all we know it could've been big fun to just leave him there . . . But then, he's such a sweet guy.

[touching cloth]

Sweet!!!! I'm an asshole dontcha know.
But yes cheers all for hanging around in the cold and dark, and especially cheers to G for the loan of a nice fully charged battery to get to Burg, and of course everyone who got their hands dirty

[dinkel]

She's too kind a girl isn't she.

To Boss: in the naughty corner! Edit: just saw the dirty-remark is in the other topic

Back to the cars, where were we:


Knobb giving it some beans.


Red E to follow a few sec later.


Phil choosing another of his gorgeous lines. On the vid it's very good to see his strategy: thundering towards LS and carefully aiming, gently but super accurately getting through (catapult) and stamping to get right at speed again. His lesson to get through a curve 'a bit slow' is so much faster because you don't need to correct the car. Beautifull to watch, I sometimes forgot to snap!.


The shadow is the big H. Mogs generally took a 'close to the concrete' line, almost touching sometimes! Abels E did similar times as the Healey. Big fun to see close racing, and with such beautifull cars as well. Yeah, I really had a helluva time at the apex of LS again. Addictive . . .


Mog fighters, they're seriously quick!


The red one . . . defeated.


This DBS V8 sounded the absolute nuts, and went around in a best 3:19.


A bit older and faster: Foster & Stephenson's DB4 did 2:53! At tick over it sounded like a Flak-unit rattling with an occasional hit: purrrrrrr-tack!-prrrrrrrrrr- tack! . . . Love that.


Nuff brake 'n lock stuff at this point. LS has definately become a tad faster. Is it the new Busstop that gives more speed?


Mark Jordan wresteling his big 8.


I like small cars: Canning and Woods TT did a best 3:14. This is a spectacular little beastie and faster than period 1.6 and 2 litre Alfa's!


Take some time to visit http://www.teamwillpower.org/
It's all for a good cause. This 5 litre 450 brake P6 had some ignitionproblems and a sparkplug failure. To bad really because I'd really liked to see it going. Next time.


You guys really want to see more. Please tell if it gets boring because some cars may pass twice, or thrice or . . .



Lunchtime!

Edited by dinkel on Thursday 11th October 11:46

[L100NYY]

Keep the pics coming Dink, can never have enough shots of cars like these going around Spa!!



Just wish I could've been there to witness them first hand.

Roll on next year!!!

Oh by the way Dink, my 2002 has just been delivered back home after it's re-paint, can't wait to see the ol' girl!!!

[bosscerbera]

dinkel said:

The red one . . . defeated.

[Klassiekerrally]

Keep 'm coming Albert!

[dinkel]

What the F did THAT car to in THAT race?

[touching cloth]

bosscerbera said:

dinkel said:

The red one . . . defeated.

Different red no? This is the one that lasted the parade lap then was puffing out more smoke that Pat Butcher - think it did one race lap then retired - you can see the smoke in the pic, unless that's tyres.

[dinkel]

186 is the one. Thanx TC.

[touching cloth]

dinkel said:

186 is the one. Thanx TC.

Great pic though

[son of a vette]

dinkel said:

Cheers for that Chriss. I thought a distinctive shirt would be convenient

I'd like a small cam for some easy snapping during beers and coffee talk. That thingy of yours Chriss, looks good.

That camera is pretty old now, it's a Pentax Optio S3, only 3Mp, but it's so small it's great for just sticking in a pocket, takes pretty good pics too when you fiddle with the settings, you could probably pick one up super cheap on Ebay these days

[touching cloth]

Last few for the Brit Sports Race

Phil leads a charge down the straight


Lovely colour this


You can just spot the infamous jag about to run very wide.


I thought this thing would just fall to the back, but it scalped quite a few


ZZtop adopts gay motorsport watching pose


Fubes reflects on a good race(groan)

[Godzilla]

bosscerbera said:

I've edited down some footage from the race...

Part 1 - The rolling start and my best lap, 3:06 here

Got a bit squirly under braking for La Source the first time eh?
Also I'm amazed you could see through the oil smoke one of the old clunkers was pouring out.

I've been watching some of my HD footage from the track day and one of my laps in the Z06 was 2:54; what did the mega Cobra do in the dry?

[bosscerbera]

Godzilla said:

I've been watching some of my HD footage from the track day and one of my laps in the Z06 was 2:54; what did the mega Cobra do in the dry.

2:54 is a good time, Cobra runs in the 2:40-somethings, best 2:42 IIRC.

[Godzilla]

bosscerbera said:

Godzilla said:

I've been watching some of my HD footage from the track day and one of my laps in the Z06 was 2:54; what did the mega Cobra do in the dry.

2:54 is a good time, Cobra runs in the 2:40-somethings, best 2:42 IIRC.

Hmm. I reckon with slicks you could get my car to match that!

Not bad for a road car with heated leather seats, sat nav, climate control, HUD, airbags and cupholders...

[L100NYY]

Godzilla said:

bosscerbera said:

Godzilla said:

I've been watching some of my HD footage from the track day and one of my laps in the Z06 was 2:54; what did the mega Cobra do in the dry.

2:54 is a good time, Cobra runs in the 2:40-somethings, best 2:42 IIRC.

Hmm. I reckon with slicks you could get my car to match that!

Not bad for a road car with heated leather seats, sat nav, climate control, HUD, airbags and cupholders...

2:54 is very good Mr 'Zilla, do you know what sort of speed you were touching on the straights?

[bosscerbera]

Godzilla said:

bosscerbera said:

Godzilla said:

I've been watching some of my HD footage from the track day and one of my laps in the Z06 was 2:54; what did the mega Cobra do in the dry.

2:54 is a good time, Cobra runs in the 2:40-somethings, best 2:42 IIRC.

Hmm. I reckon with slicks you could get my car to match that!

....but then if the Cobra ran slicks it would get closer to the Challenge Tuscan times of 2:30-something (record is IIRC 2:28).

[L100NYY]

bosscerbera said:

Godzilla said:

bosscerbera said:

Godzilla said:

I've been watching some of my HD footage from the track day and one of my laps in the Z06 was 2:54; what did the mega Cobra do in the dry.

2:54 is a good time, Cobra runs in the 2:40-somethings, best 2:42 IIRC.

Hmm. I reckon with slicks you could get my car to match that!

....but then if the Cobra ran slicks it would get closer to the Challenge Tuscan times of 2:30-something (record is IIRC 2:28).

Phil,
I'll ask Giles when he comes back after lunch, he'll know!

[thewave]

Bit of a hijack of the thread, but who's is the big Healey? I'd love to know a bit more about the car, what's been done to it etc. (I have an MGC)

Cheers

[son of a vette]

Just on the subject of lap times, I was timing a few cars (very roughly with my wrist watch) and got around 2:55 for some of the GT 40's, a few of the smaller cars were going round in 3:15's and the fast historic F1's we timed were getting down to 2:30.

Got me wondering what the fastest time that stands at the moment, well Kimi Raikkonen piloted his Ferrari round there this year in 1:45!!!!!!!!! Now that shows some progress in lap speeds over the years, and what a different leugue a modern F1 car is now in!!