Saturday 14th May

An early start it was, woken by a crazy frenchman at 4am who had locked himself out and was banging on the door for half an hour. We eventually got up at 7am, showered and headed off. The first french stretch down to Lille was exceptionally smooth and clear and we made good progress.

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The Belgian border crossing was made obvious by the deep ruts in the road and we crashed our way onwards bound for Spa. This was all very civilised, sat at 70mph to conserve the fuel, and although James managed to go the wrong way around a roundabout in a service station. We reached Spa slightly ahead of schedule and proceeded to do the normal and just walk into the paddock. We just caught part of a bike trackday as we watched Eau Rouge before they stopped for lunch and then we set about exploring the rest, finding the GP start straight and the podium.

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Thumbs up from me

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Our next stop was only two miles away (up some random single track lane) where Peugeot nutter James arranged to meet some of the Dutch Rallye owners club on a trackday...we didnt mind as we are all Peugeot fans and most had owned 106's previously...only to find they'd buggered off to lunch! Eager to catch some of the VLN race, we made tracks instead.

We cruised at 70mph again, only until Ed and I decided to have a little hoon to around 140mph, as we crossed the border into Germany...past a Police car but he didnt seem bothered lol. We then left the motorways behind and got on the back roads (We recommend the L10 to Hillesheim to anyone in the area) and before long we were in Nurburg. It was 3pm by now, so we got straight to Brunnchen to watch some racing. It was heaving! Car park full, cars parked all over the road and in fields! Still, we found a spot and sat watching a variety of cars, from a load of Clio 200s to Merc SLSs, a Viper, a Lexus LFA that sounded immense and the one off Ferrari P4/5C. Epic.

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We had a quick lap to the entrance which was deserted and then went down to Adenau to meet Eddy. We were given the basement suite to ourselves, which is quite nice, although gutted that there's no balcony

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We did 'the usual' and headed straight to the Rewe beer supermarket to stock up and then decided on a meal at Sabine's family's Pistenklause restaurant. Unbelievable meal And the service was outstanding, real German efficiency. James proceeded to draw a nice PoT logo on the wall seeings as that seemed the norm. We had a little wander around the village, a peer through the BMW M Centre at the new E90 M3 Ring Taxi and a look at some R8s on a couple of lorries and then left for Eddy's again.


Dinner is served in the Pistenklause...

We finished the evening with the obligatory track walk and a few Bitburgers on the communal balcony.

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