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Tomorrow I travel to Belgium. Thursday I spend 9 hours hooning several cars around Spa Francorchamps.



This is a good week

My favorite track.

Have a great time....fucker. Picts or you suck, etc.

Do you know what cars you'll be driving? If so a list of them with pics would be aprreciated

Is your neck strong enough to handle the cornering forces, or won't you be driving cars that are fast enough for that to be an issue?

Good for you for getting to do this, I'd like to do something like that myself some day.
How much is it costing? You paying for it yourself or is it a gift from someone? If it's a gift I wouldn't expect you to know how much it cost

Have fun and don't die in a fire

GFY - There will be pictures and videos. Lots of videos...

DTS - £400 including travel (fuel and channel tunnel) and a place to stay. I will be driving around in a Clio 172 Sport (with racing mods) and an Exocet with a 220bhp super charged MX5 engine in. I might snag a go in a Nissan GT-R (if it makes it over) and a Nissan 350Z (if they are brave enough to let me)

Too bad there's no F1 or F3000 car you can test out. I'd gladly pay an extra £1000 per fucking lap if it was available.

That is an awesome video!!! I expect to be in third gear if I am lucky going up there...

Don Carlos wrote:GFY - There will be pictures and videos. Lots of videos...

DTS - £400 including travel (fuel and channel tunnel) and a place to stay. I will be driving around in a Clio 172 Sport (with racing mods) and an Exocet with a 220bhp super charged MX5 engine in. I might snag a go in a Nissan GT-R (if it makes it over) and a Nissan 350Z (if they are brave enough to let me)

The 350Z is actually pretty friendly when pushed hard if you've got a nice set of tires (unless theirs has some crazy mods).

bitWISE wrote:

Don Carlos wrote:GFY - There will be pictures and videos. Lots of videos...

DTS - £400 including travel (fuel and channel tunnel) and a place to stay. I will be driving around in a Clio 172 Sport (with racing mods) and an Exocet with a 220bhp super charged MX5 engine in. I might snag a go in a Nissan GT-R (if it makes it over) and a Nissan 350Z (if they are brave enough to let me)

The 350Z is actually pretty friendly when pushed hard if you've got a nice set of tires (unless theirs has some crazy mods).

The Exocet is similar to a Lotus 7, right? That should be the most fun you'll ever have with 4 wheels. I'm jealous. Very, very jealous.

Super jealous dude, that's silverstone right? I may have to make this trip at some point in the future.

Κracus wrote:Super jealous dude, that's silverstone right?

Don Carlos wrote:Spa Francorchamps

lol

quality dude, one of my fav grids n all,. Hope it doesn't rain

pretty sweet

rain would be appropriate

It will rain - I have no doubt it will happen

Κracus wrote:Super jealous dude, that's silverstone right? I may have to make this trip at some point in the future.

Thankfully you'll never be anywhere near a performance car.

Tell me if rivage is as long as it seems. Also I think blanchemont would be the worst....ppl talk about eau rouge and it is cool, but in your cars i'd think it'd just a bit of a lift off.

Don't want to be a spoilsport here, but I'd curb your enthusiasm for a while. I'm not sure if this is the same sort of arrangement, but there's similar events here in the Netherlands on the circuit of Zandvoort (and perhaps Assen as well), but what they do is they let you drive in those sports cars, but you're lead by a pacecar which goes frustratingly slow. You're driving with a bunch of peeps in the same type of car all in a row. Overtaking is not allowed and you aren't allowed to drop gaps bigger than like 20 meters or so (so tailing behind and then pressing the throttle down to get a nice feel for the acceleration is a big no no). They're not letting you go all out pedal-to-the-metal race style. Even their "drifting experience" is nothing more than you riding shotgun while some race driver does the drifting. They also let you go like 2 laps per car.

For your sake I hope this arrangement is nothing like that, but if I were you I'd look into that before picturing yourself blasting through those corners like a maniac.

oddly enough, they let you do full throttle on the public road with a hired lambo if you want to.
friend of mine did that a few weeks back. he expected that there would be a billion limitations but the dude said "nah bro, do whatever you want. just don't crash".
only cost him like 50 euros for half an hour.

Eraser wrote:Don't want to be a spoilsport here, but I'd curb your enthusiasm for a while. I'm not sure if this is the same sort of arrangement, but there's similar events here in the Netherlands on the circuit of Zandvoort (and perhaps Assen as well), but what they do is they let you drive in those sports cars, but you're lead by a pacecar which goes frustratingly slow. You're driving with a bunch of peeps in the same type of car all in a row. Overtaking is not allowed and you aren't allowed to drop gaps bigger than like 20 meters or so (so tailing behind and then pressing the throttle down to get a nice feel for the acceleration is a big no no). They're not letting you go all out pedal-to-the-metal race style. Even their "drifting experience" is nothing more than you riding shotgun while some race driver does the drifting. They also let you go like 2 laps per car.

For your sake I hope this arrangement is nothing like that, but if I were you I'd look into that before picturing yourself blasting through those corners like a maniac.

Ugh. A truly serious question: who would pay money for something so awful and disappointing and how are they still in business?

Eraser wrote:Don't want to be a spoilsport here, but I'd curb your enthusiasm for a while. I'm not sure if this is the same sort of arrangement, but there's similar events here in the Netherlands on the circuit of Zandvoort (and perhaps Assen as well), but what they do is they let you drive in those sports cars, but you're lead by a pacecar which goes frustratingly slow. You're driving with a bunch of peeps in the same type of car all in a row. Overtaking is not allowed and you aren't allowed to drop gaps bigger than like 20 meters or so (so tailing behind and then pressing the throttle down to get a nice feel for the acceleration is a big no no). They're not letting you go all out pedal-to-the-metal race style. Even their "drifting experience" is nothing more than you riding shotgun while some race driver does the drifting. They also let you go like 2 laps per car.

For your sake I hope this arrangement is nothing like that, but if I were you I'd look into that before picturing yourself blasting through those corners like a maniac.

Cars are privately owned. You break it, it's a long walk home.

I wouldn't sign up to that shit

Eraser wrote:Don't want to be a spoilsport here, but I'd curb your enthusiasm for a while. I'm not sure if this is the same sort of arrangement, but there's similar events here in the Netherlands on the circuit of Zandvoort (and perhaps Assen as well), but what they do is they let you drive in those sports cars, but you're lead by a pacecar which goes frustratingly slow. You're driving with a bunch of peeps in the same type of car all in a row. Overtaking is not allowed and you aren't allowed to drop gaps bigger than like 20 meters or so (so tailing behind and then pressing the throttle down to get a nice feel for the acceleration is a big no no). They're not letting you go all out pedal-to-the-metal race style. Even their "drifting experience" is nothing more than you riding shotgun while some race driver does the drifting. They also let you go like 2 laps per car.

For your sake I hope this arrangement is nothing like that, but if I were you I'd look into that before picturing yourself blasting through those corners like a maniac.

What's stopping you from driving like a lunatic ?

MKJ wrote:oddly enough, they let you do full throttle on the public road with a hired lambo if you want to.
friend of mine did that a few weeks back. he expected that there would be a billion limitations but the dude said "nah bro, do whatever you want. just don't crash".
only cost him like 50 euros for half an hour.

I guess it has a lot to do with insurance. Good luck getting your car insured when it's going to be driven on a track by complete strangers. The car your friend rented stayed on public roads and abided traffic laws (on paper, namsayn).

GONNAFISTYA wrote: Ugh. A truly serious question: who would pay money for something so awful and disappointing and how are they still in business?

Dunno. It thrives on human gullability I guess.

losCHUNK wrote:What's stopping you from driving like a lunatic ?

Erm, getting kicked out of the premises if you do, I guess?

This is what I'm talking about btw: http://raceplanet.com
The name Bleekmolen might ring a bell with racing fanatics. Michael Bleekemolen did a tiny bit of F1 racing in 1977-78 and some Formula 3 stuff, among other things. His son, Jeroen Bleekemolen is still active as a race driver I think (DTM and stuff like that I think).

Eraser wrote:

losCHUNK wrote:What's stopping you from driving like a lunatic ?

Erm, getting kicked out of the premises if you do, I guess?

But that happens after you've driven like a lunatic, over 10 laps whilst lapping most of the grid and wrapping the car around the lampost.

Doesn't really matter if they let you back.

I know tracks around the UK have limits depending on the company that owns it, other tracks have restrictions made by the government but is usually stuff like restricting db levels for the local residents, which also impact race days.