Spa to Switzerland in a GT3 - route suggestions?
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After many long months parted from my GT3 (I've been in Hungary, he's been in the UK), I'm now relocating to Switzerland where the roads are smooth and the cows are friendly. So the GT3 is coming too (for a while at least) 
The drive to Zug will be via 2 days of track day in Spa (can it get any better) after some new brakes from the nice guys at Fearnsport.
Anybody got good suggestions for the route down to CH from Spa? I hear entering around Basle from the French side is to be avoided due to traffic.
I'm after some damn fine roads, if possible, please help!
Best,
Andrew
The drive to Zug will be via 2 days of track day in Spa (can it get any better) after some new brakes from the nice guys at Fearnsport.
Anybody got good suggestions for the route down to CH from Spa? I hear entering around Basle from the French side is to be avoided due to traffic.
I'm after some damn fine roads, if possible, please help!
Best,
Andrew
If you do enter via the Basel area it's worthwhile to use the border crossing east of the city (near Rheinfelden) that's more or less on the motorway as opposed to the crossing that goes through the city; that one can be very slow plus there are probably still roadworks.
I did the same run 10 years ago and have vague memories of heading through Luxembourg and then more easterly into the Black Forest area. Look at a good Michelin map for the green lined routes.
I did the same run 10 years ago and have vague memories of heading through Luxembourg and then more easterly into the Black Forest area. Look at a good Michelin map for the green lined routes.
Don't approach Basel via Mulhouse as Phelix said - the traffic is hell, and once you've (eventually) crossed the frontier at Basel the roadworks are shocking. Best to get across into Germany at Kehl (via Strasbourg) and then hammer down the autobahn to cross at Weil Am Rhein - your route from there depends where you're going in Switzerland really.
Chris
Chris
I did a similar trip a few weeks ago on my BMW bike from the Ring. Pick up the 48 south from Kaiserslautern, a fabulous road through a forest, frequented by local bikers. From Baden Baden take the 500 south through the Black Forest, another great road that follows the crests of the hills and gives great views to east and west.
If you are considering keeping the car in CH for the long term you should declare it as part of your personal possessions when you cross the border.
When I moved out here it was supposed to be temporary so I just drove for a year on UK plates with a UK insurance policy that was supposedly going to cover me if I had an accident.
Thankfully, I never had any accidents but being "the only (UK plated) Scooby in the village" the local plod had no trouble tracking me down (even though I was not on their database) when I was caught on camera doing 80kmph in a 50kmph zone and relieving me of CHF1,000 and my driving licence for a month! (Ah! the good old days: it would be three months for that now!)
Rather than go through the process of formally importing my car a year later and possibly having to pay VAT as I didn't declare it when I arrived, I sold it back in the UK. A pity really as LHD Scoobies were selling for much more out here at the time. But at least I got it out of the country before any other Cantonal plod managed to track me down for crimes against humanity!
P.S. If you get a Michelin map you will see there are a lot of scenic roads (highlighted in green) in the hilly bit of France just above Mulhouse but I would be tempted just to plough down the motorway from Freiburg and go enter via Basel as it's not always a nightmare so long as you don't hit the summer holiday traffic on Fridays/Saturdays. There's plently of great driving to be done when you are here. Goodluck!
When I moved out here it was supposed to be temporary so I just drove for a year on UK plates with a UK insurance policy that was supposedly going to cover me if I had an accident.
Thankfully, I never had any accidents but being "the only (UK plated) Scooby in the village" the local plod had no trouble tracking me down (even though I was not on their database) when I was caught on camera doing 80kmph in a 50kmph zone and relieving me of CHF1,000 and my driving licence for a month! (Ah! the good old days: it would be three months for that now!)
Rather than go through the process of formally importing my car a year later and possibly having to pay VAT as I didn't declare it when I arrived, I sold it back in the UK. A pity really as LHD Scoobies were selling for much more out here at the time. But at least I got it out of the country before any other Cantonal plod managed to track me down for crimes against humanity!
P.S. If you get a Michelin map you will see there are a lot of scenic roads (highlighted in green) in the hilly bit of France just above Mulhouse but I would be tempted just to plough down the motorway from Freiburg and go enter via Basel as it's not always a nightmare so long as you don't hit the summer holiday traffic on Fridays/Saturdays. There's plently of great driving to be done when you are here. Goodluck!
Hammerwerfer said:
Surely a stop at the Nordschleife is all but mandatory.
Agreed! and then circa half way down (between the Nordschleife and Basel) you'll pass the Hockenheimring...It's regularly open in the evenings (check dates here) http://www.hockenheimring.com/Default.aspx?tabid=5... and at EUR12 per 15 minute session it is well worth a go. The touristenfarten sessions (no crash helmets required) can get a bit busy but in a GT3, you should be able to make your own space.
I'm supposed to be getting to Zug at a reasonable hour....hmmmmGassing Station | Porsche General | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff