Friday 23rd September 2011

Pic Of The Week: Spa, How We Love Thee

Spa Six Hours prompts a spot of nostalgic 1970s action

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Ah, Spa-Francorchamps. The smell of pine carried on the misty Ardennes forest air, augmented by a whiff of tyre smoke or burned oil, the scream of an engine at full-tilt through Eau Rouge... The sound of local residents complaining...

Fortunately that dispute has since been settled, and this weekend will play host to the wonderful nostalgia fest that is the Spa Six Hours, a weekend of racing that celebrates GT cars, touring cars and single-seat racers of yesteryear (get you PH discount here).

The cars you see here are actually from the 1971 Spa 24 hour race, then part of the European Touring Car Championship, and so aren't actually quite the sort of thing you'll see hammering around Spa this weekend, but we think it's a nice spot of black and white racing action and more than worthy of a Spa-based POTW...

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[loudlashadjuster]

Large pics are of last week's cutaway 911 ...

[escortcosworth12]

loudlashadjuster said:

Large pics are of last week's cutaway 911 ...

Ah, wasnt just me then!

[Motown Junk]

loudlashadjuster said:

Large pics are of last week's cutaway 911 ...

BORING!

Anyway, I'm in 2nd place in this one......

[Nick3point2]

It's a pretty rubbish picture anyway.

[Affalterbach]

Interesting to note for any AMG fans that the third car, the one behind the Camaro, is the AMG SEL 6.3 which went on to finish second and put Hans-Werner Aufrechts compay on the map. Sorry, just the ramblings of an AMG enthusiast.

[turbobungle]

I think it's a great pic, just a shame the downloads are of a 911!

[MagicalTrevor]

turbobungle said:

I think it's a great pic, just a shame the downloads are of a 911!

+1

[Marto]

turbobungle said:

I think it's a great pic, just a shame the downloads are of a 911!

+1 too. I'm going next weekend, to recreate such imagery!

[RB Will]

I take it Eau Rouge was either a lot tighter in those days or they are going off to the left somewhere rather than go up it.

[Garlick]

Bugger, I'll attempt to get the wrong pic sorted.

Apologies

[Mark-C]

Loving that ... will be this week's backdrop as soon as the download is sorted ....

[Lagerlout]

Red Pig. Yummy.

[soad]

Nice shot!

[Si_man306]

Set as screensaver. Great pic!

[MichelV]

RB Will said:

I take it Eau Rouge was either a lot tighter in those days or they are going off to the left somewhere rather than go up it.

No its Eau Rouge going up Radillion an then on to Kemmel and Combes but I think they have a) flatened out the start line (not the F1 but the old one) and b) made the first left up to radillion a bit less sharp.

[Turbo Harry]

What a fantastic shot. Really makes me wistful that I'm too young to have witnessed racing in that era.

[HebdenHedgehog]

Great shot!

No-one going to spot all the cars?

Is that an Alfa 4 / 5 th back?

[chevy-stu]

Motown Junk said:

loudlashadjuster said:

Large pics are of last week's cutaway 911 ...

BORING!

Anyway, I'm in 2nd place in this one......

Haha... spotted it too eh...

T'was a classic era for Camaros on (European) circuits

[mikial]

Ahh, the memories...my Z28 circa 1976 in downtown Thornton Heath, south London.

[bobberz]

mikial said:

Ahh, the memories...my Z28 circa 1976 in downtown Thornton Heath, south London.

Very nice! Must've been quite the sight on British roadways back then!