996turbo at Spa and a bit of a moment!

[pete a]

Hi all,I went to Spa with the RMA last week and i have a bit of in car footage.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fNDLHFa878


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKcBcJKTTm0 A bit of a moment at 1-27 on this one.


And yes I know I miss some apexes, I don't claim to be a driving god but i did have fun!!!

Edited by pete a on Friday 13th May 09:26

[Dawsey]

Nice video

Agree, its about having fun not 000ths :-)

What was he doing crawling along on the racing line? Could have been nasty...

Cheers
James

[wackojacko]

Blimin 'eck that was close...... good save/recovery though

Doing Spa next year with the TVR lads.

[ringweekends]

Good save!

[Windymiller]

Lucky not to end badly after making the decision to use the grass. Not the best place to be on the brakes...

So what's with the BM? Had it stopped?

[pete a]

he was stopped due to a blown engine, which had only just happened hence no flags warning of the instruction.

[pete a]

Windymiller said:

Lucky not to end badly after making the decision to use the grass. Not the best place to be on the brakes...

I know, i came of the brakes on the grass and back on the gas, i went for the grass because in that split second i thought the car would swap ends if i tried to switch inside at that speed, bear in mind this all happened at about 145mph coming out of the bend.

edit to add that it felt a lot more exciting shall we say at the time than it looks in the vid.
You could almost smell the adrenaline...

Edited by pete a on Friday 13th May 13:57

[splitpin]

Well done for making a tough call and having the skill and presence of mind to pull it off.

As for that BM stopping on the racing line , was he 'spoken' to afterwards?

Having an engine blow doesn't inject the world's strongest instant super glue into the brakes does it!

[gtdc]

Am I going to watch this or is it going to make me car sick?

Melindi

[ringweekends]

Tricky corner to have to deal with that as the OP rightly points out.

We've had emotional incidents with a few cars there on events over the years. You were very lucky to have saved it!

I'm aware of the sense of relief you both had from the expletives at the end of the clip!

[gtdc]

Emotional? Like tears and everything?

[boxsey]

gtdc said:

Am I going to watch this or is it going to make me car sick?

Melindi

Don't be afraid to watch it...it should have a rolling credit at the end that says 'no cars were harmed in the making of this video...only my underpants'

[Guillotine]

Great save there...and really lucky he hadn't dropped oil!!!

[VTECMatt]

Well done that could have been nasty, had a couple of heart stoppers like that in my Elise but not at such a high speed.

[GrumpyTwig]

Quick thinking @ 1:27, I puckered up just watching that :x

[Hark]

Fantastic save

[Another Fluffer]

Hark said:

Fantastic save

Well done