Roll call - October 8/9 - Nurburgring and Spa

[edh]

nxi20 said:

Worst overtake I witnessed was by someone who really should know better: Sabine Schmitz!

She overtook me going into Hohe Acht & it was a good job I looked in my mirrors because the natural line there would have taken me directly into her path.

Looks fine for TF overtaking - I presume this was DN6 though.

[noddynitro]

DN6 weather was great, fantastic track day on the best circuit on the planet :-)

[ukkid35]

[ukkid35]

One of my favourite photos from Spa is one with my mum just visible in the passenger seat.

Edited by ukkid35 on Friday 12th October 18:08

[996TT_STEVO]

Ring & Spa... Scottish lads doing us proud

[dace]

ukkid35 said:

One of my favourite photos from Spa is one with my mum just visible in the passenger seat.

Edited by ukkid35 on Friday 12th October 18:08

Excellent! We were in the yellow S4. Had a great few days...

[RedSpike66]

Only did Spa on Wednesday, but had an absolutely excellent time. Rally well organised evetn, hardly any queueing, and only one red flag period iirc, and generally speaking very good standard of driving and obeying of rules.

Highlight of the day: Danny Winstanley overtaking me on the downhill straight before Double Gauche where I was in the box seat to watch him drift it all the way round the bend in an M3 !! Talent !

[MikeyLCR]

Porkie said:

What was the problem with the Italians? I didnt see any bad driving personally?

Only problem I saw was a blue E36 M3 who seemed to have fetish for bonnet pins and was using 8 for the front bonnet alone!

That'd be this chap!

[agtlaw]

click to embiggen.

[iluvmercs]

What a tremendous few days!
Thanks to Darren and all the DN/Circuit Days team

The 'Ring was fantastic, as ever.
I had heard that everyone was well after their crashes, which is a relief. I met the Seat Leon guys earlier in the day after following them for half a lap
Re: the Italians. I witnessed a couple of rather "dodgy" incidents, but I just let them get on with it.
It certainly didn't detract from a fun day on track.

I was a Spa newbie on Wednesday, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I'll be definitely returning! Tuition was extremely helpful - it's amazing how much you can learn from a seasoned professional in 20 minutes.

Great to see a few familiar faces/cars, and to meet a fair few PHers.

Thanks to Darren in the red 205GTi for a few quick laps
dace It's apparent form above you are the guy I chatted to about your S4 on Tuesday.
Mike with tht awesome Sagaris - great to meet you on the Chunnel.

I hope the guys in Galant and the Scottish chap I met with the white GT3 were OK after their offs at Pouhon

Finally, I can whole heartedly recommend the Spa karting track!
It was a great way to spend the Thursday morning after plenty of time on the big-boy tracks

Thanks again to everyone who made the event possible!
I'll post links to photos and videos in this thread when I get round to uploading them

Darren (Bright Blue RS4)

[996TT_STEVO]

agtlaw said:

click to embiggen.

Fantastic Pics

[ukkid35]

[Spires]

Great Destination event as ever. Grabbed some laps with the CSL using a Gopro:

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K3Y_7YBt4To

[jackwood]

iluvmercs said:

What a tremendous few days!
Thanks to Darren and all the DN/Circuit Days team

The 'Ring was fantastic, as ever.
I had heard that everyone was well after their crashes, which is a relief. I met the Seat Leon guys earlier in the day after following them for half a lap
Re: the Italians. I witnessed a couple of rather "dodgy" incidents, but I just let them get on with it.
It certainly didn't detract from a fun day on track.

I was a Spa newbie on Wednesday, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I'll be definitely returning! Tuition was extremely helpful - it's amazing how much you can learn from a seasoned professional in 20 minutes.

Great to see a few familiar faces/cars, and to meet a fair few PHers.

Thanks to Darren in the red 205GTi for a few quick laps
dace It's apparent form above you are the guy I chatted to about your S4 on Tuesday.
Mike with tht awesome Sagaris - great to meet you on the Chunnel.

I hope the guys in Galant and the Scottish chap I met with the white GT3 were OK after their offs at Pouhon

Finally, I can whole heartedly recommend the Spa karting track!
It was a great way to spend the Thursday morning after plenty of time on the big-boy tracks

Thanks again to everyone who made the event possible!
I'll post links to photos and videos in this thread when I get round to uploading them

Darren (Bright Blue RS4)

Just uploading some footage from Wednesday that has your car in it. Plus a few others.

[Porkie]

iluvmercs said:

I was a Spa newbie on Wednesday, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I'll be definitely returning!

I was as well... loved it so much I am going back tomorrow for mondays trackday with Goldtrack!

Going in my F430 this time with my mate who just bought a 430 Scuderia.... and his first drive of it is gonna be the drive over!

Very excited

[RWDKurt]

iluvmercs said:

What a tremendous few days!
Thanks to Darren and all the DN/Circuit Days team

The 'Ring was fantastic, as ever.
I had heard that everyone was well after their crashes, which is a relief. I met the Seat Leon guys earlier in the day after following them for half a lap
Re: the Italians. I witnessed a couple of rather "dodgy" incidents, but I just let them get on with it.
It certainly didn't detract from a fun day on track.

I was a Spa newbie on Wednesday, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I'll be definitely returning! Tuition was extremely helpful - it's amazing how much you can learn from a seasoned professional in 20 minutes.

Great to see a few familiar faces/cars, and to meet a fair few PHers.

Thanks to Darren in the red 205GTi for a few quick laps
dace It's apparent form above you are the guy I chatted to about your S4 on Tuesday.
Mike with tht awesome Sagaris - great to meet you on the Chunnel.

I hope the guys in Galant and the Scottish chap I met with the white GT3 were OK after their offs at Pouhon

Finally, I can whole heartedly recommend the Spa karting track!
It was a great way to spend the Thursday morning after plenty of time on the big-boy tracks

Thanks again to everyone who made the event possible!
I'll post links to photos and videos in this thread when I get round to uploading them

Darren (Bright Blue RS4)

Great event. The guys in the Galant were not only fine but actually drove the car home to Kent after some 'creative engineering'...

Commiserations to Adrian at the Ring - he was kind enough to give me a PAX lap in the M3 a couple of years ago. He knew the difference between 'fast and safe' and 'fast and stupid'. Hope the Porker insurers do the right thing.

Edited by RWDKurt on Saturday 13th October 20:20

[H.7]

Was running at DN6 at Nordschleife on Monday and with Circuit Days at Spa on Wednesday. Can anyone point me to any official photo sites? Still waiting on emails from official photographers but would be happy to see if any other photos are available. Black 09 plate GT-R.

Thanks,
Brian

[ukkid35]

H.7 said:

Was running at DN6 at Nordschleife on Monday and with Circuit Days at Spa on Wednesday. Can anyone point me to any official photo sites?

This is where you'd look normally, but no one seems to have been snapping on Monday except during the TF laps

http://www.ringportal.nl/en/photography

[H.7]

ukkid35 said:

This is where you'd look normally, but no one seems to have been snapping on Monday except during the TF laps

http://www.ringportal.nl/en/photography

Thanks for the link. Yes, I saw Jutta's photos of the evenng's TF session. I guess I'll just need to be patient and wait for the emails from the official photographers

Thanks,
Brian

[jackwood]

A few vids from Tuesday and Wednesday at Spa:

Following my old Cayman for a bit. Still a nice looking car. Owner now wants a GT3 though.... Plus a load of other cars including Shelby Daytona and Alfa amongst others.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?nomobile=1&v=fuT1...

Bit of a skid on my cool-down lap around Rivage/Bruxelles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mamG1QS3npc&fea...

Couple of vids following my mate in his e30 with dodgy rear end....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL9YPYAVj0E&fea...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJbFuzKTQfE&fea...

Edited by jackwood on Sunday 14th October 13:55