Calais to Soissons 1hr 28mins !!! VXR 6ltr

[Andy Sargeant]

Saturday evening I had a run down to Soissons in France, left the Tunnel at 19.55 and arrived at the Campsite by the river in Soissons at 20.23 so making it a total time of 1hr 28mins, so an avarege of about 95mph, no stops and no tall hats about, and a great fun dry run except for some annoying drizzle mid way.
Route: A26 to J11, St-Quentin Sud and onto the D1 down to Soissons, I think on my maths it's 145 miles, forgot to zero the trip.
O.K. some will say blo**y stupid but great fun, traveled on my own so no distractions and don't think I upset anyone, I hope. !!!
Returned yesterday evening in the heavy rain all the way back to my door, kept the T.C. on though.
Anyone else got any fun runs they want to share. ?????
Or can you beat it ????

[anonymous-user]

Be careful on that run. Town called Bethune about halfway has regular speed traps - although perhaps not at that time of the evening.

I know from experience - twice!!! Obviously didn't learn from experience!! :-)

[mackie1]

95mph isn't so bad thought, but if you are caught at over 50kmph over the limit it's a fine and a ban and they could seize your car. There's a discussion over in General Gassing at the moment. Someone got pulled for doing 160-190mph in a Conti GT.

[Andy Sargeant]

Yes I know about that road as well getting nicked two years ago and being kept for nearly three hours, it's a good time to travel on this route and you must eat lots of carotts.
Watch out for the little triangler things on the side of the road, gives it away if you can shave enough speed off.

[Paul-C]

26 years ago we lived just North of Milan...Pregnana Milanese.... and regularly drove home to East Lancs in under 11 hours including ferry crossing in a 280E Mercedes every 10 weeks over a 2 year period. It really was better 'in the olden days'

[V8 EOL - Rich]

Andy Sargeant said:

Saturday evening I had a run down to Soissons in France, left the Tunnel at 19.55

You missed me and 60 other Paris tunnellers by about an hour! Oh well...

Myself and Nah held up the monaro flag loud and proud!

[slackalice]

You must be barking mad! I was out ther on Wednesday and Thursday doing that route and it was raining, when the rain comes the national speed limit drops to 110 on that road, lucky for me I set the cruise to a boring 108, and pleased that I did, as I dropped into a lazer trap, 20minutes later I spotted a chase car in the bushes, then further on three motorcycle cops waiting for the off.

The frogies do not have a sense of humour and will arrest you on the spot!!!!!! GOOD BYE CAR

[Demolition Man]

Vectra GSi - Gutersloh in Germany to Calais P&O ferry booth.... 330 miles in 3hrs & 25mins.... circa average 95mph. I had the record at work for quite some time - seeing off Audis and a couple of Porsche.

Germany, Netherlands, Belgium and France.... all with draconian laws on speeding. In my defence, I did start at 0200hrs and roads were dry & clear (and I was young).

[qprgav]

I'll throw in my 2 pence worth as i rarely post on this board but still read with some interest. My best every journey, came courtesy of a red 2005 CV8.

Left Frankfurt, Germany following the England V Paraguay game last June. Made Calais from Frankfurt in 3 hours and 51 minutes (which included a stop for a full tank and a quick pee and a further stop for a splash of fuel for the last dash to calais). Distance 378 miles. Average speed 98MPH fuel stops included, true driving average well over 100MPH. Journey highlights were on the Autobahn with an E60 M5, 996 Carera and 997 Carera 4S travelling at 140+ for about 20 minutes only for everyone to get blitzed by a new shape A3 that came past covered in stickers making one hell of a racket. The M5 took off after him and that was the last we say of them both!!