Friday 5th December 2014

GT3 in The Valleys: Pic Of The Week

More tuneful than a Welsh male voice choir, PH disturbs the peace of The Valleys with a noisy Porsche

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You'll be hearing a lot more about our eventful week with a 991 GT3 shortly but to whet your appetite here's a pic from the Welsh Valleys, retracing the steps of our farewell drive in the gorgeous Riviera Blue 997 GT3. We thought it only right that we try the 991 out on the same roads and you can read about how we got on there and on track at Silverstone in due course. For now imagine the sound of an angry flat-six echoing off the hillsides and enjoy the fruits of snapper Roo's hike up a hill to get this lovely shot.

Traditional (4:3)
Computer widescreen (16:10)
TV widescreen (16:9)
Portrait (smartphone, etc)

Photo: Roo Fowler

[suffolk009]

Have I missed the bit where you tell us whereabouts that is?

[xRIEx]

Aye Dan, map coords please.

[Dan Trent]

Here it is! Only a short section but plenty more where that came from.

Cheers,

Dan

[Hyperen]

It's the A4061 South West of Treorchy. Lovely roads round there

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.6411461,-3.55180...

[mattsrallye]

Thought I recognized it, the view from the top of the hill has been the wallpaper on my phone for ages!

[Davey S2]

Just further up the road from where the GT3 has come from is the 'EVO hairpin' That whole stretch is a great bit of road.

My old Cayman S at the hairpin

[suffolk009]

Thanks everyone. I'm putting together a "lap of Wales" circuit for a weekend's driving with some friends. This all helps.

[DeanHelix]

Been there, done.....something similar



Keep following the A4061 all the way up a mountain pass from Nant-y-moel to Treorchy, up and out of Treherbet to Hirwuan, skip across the A465 towards Hirwuan, follow an awesome mountain road across a mad max style empty patch of nothing, join the A470 and enjoy a great A-road through spectacular scenery and a few very long straights to Libanus. Awesome bit of road.

Edited by DeanHelix on Friday 5th December 13:08

[jhfozzy]

One of the best roads in the area along with the A4069.

We are lucky enough to have both included in our monthly meet.

http://www.lancerregister.com/showthread.php?p=536...

[DMT84]

Davey S2 said:

Just further up the road from where the GT3 has come from is the 'EVO hairpin' That whole stretch is a great bit of road.

My old Cayman S at the hairpin

That's nowhere near treorchy that's up the black mountains

[suffolk009]

Is there a thread on here with all the best roads in Wales?

[MG CHRIS]

All them roads are good but nothing beats the b4520 from Brecon to builth, then further north theres the roads around the elan valley then the road from elan valley to devils bridge is awesome. Havent been any further than that though.

[DeanHelix]

MG CHRIS said:

All them roads are good but nothing beats the b4520 from Brecon to builth, then further north theres the roads around the elan valley then the road from elan valley to devils bridge is awesome. Havent been any further than that though.

Ah, the B4574. Another awesome road
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B4574_road

"the route has been described by the AA as one of the ten most scenic drives in the world"

[soad]

suffolk009 said:

Is there a thread on here with all the best roads in Wales?

Try this one: Best that Wales has to offer?

Watch out for these poor creatures.

[suffolk009]

soad said:

Try this one: Best that Wales has to offer?

Watch out for these poor creatures.

Thank you, just what I wanted.

[V8KSN]

Article says - 'You'll be hearing a lot more about our eventful week with a 991 GT3 shortly '

So then......*taps foot and looks over the top of glasses with crossed arms* .... Where is this story of this eventful week hmm???

[MollyGT3]

V8KSN said:

Article says - 'You'll be hearing a lot more about our eventful week with a 991 GT3 shortly '

So then......*taps foot and looks over the top of glasses with crossed arms* .... Where is this story of this eventful week hmm???

Well said my friend

Come on then PH - what happened?!