Calais to Monza

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Got a few friends going to the Italian F1 in september and were planning on driving down there, leaving on a Friday to arrive Sunday.

Were looking to get through France ASAP and into the alps, has anyone done this and if so what roads are worth doing, also can anyone reccomend any places to stay??

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Are there any particular "special" roads that we can travel on, know there are quite a few mountain passes etc but not sure which ones are better than others.

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dcb said:

MC Bodge said:

I have always found that I can cover ground more quickly in Eastern France than I can in Germany, despite the autobahn. Driving on an unlimited autobahn is an experience though.

I wouldn't consider it prudent to encourage inexperienced and
mostly untrained British drivers onto the German autobahn.

Let's not forget that the Brits still don't have motorway training
as standard on their driving tests in their 70 mph country. Almost all
the rest of Europe does have that training as standard, however.

According to the German Government, the 85th percentile speed on the German
autobahn is currently around 170 kph, so about 15% of the traffic is doing over 105 mph.

Thanks buddy, but I am a few years past 17!