Brussels to Nürburgring today

[DeuceDeuce]

I’m 2 hours away from leaving my first stop on a 10 day road trip that will take me to Krakow than back to the UK via various places.

The weather is fantastic and I’m in a fast convertible so life doesn’t get much better.

I haven’t planned this stage very well as I was just going to go straight to Nurburg but now feel like exploring.

Is Spa worth a stop? It’s Private testing today. Any other suggestions for good roads or pretty towns to see?

[DeuceDeuce]

I stopped at the track in Spa. I’ve never been to a race track before and was quite surprised at some of the gradients.

Not much to see as it was pretty much closed for private testing but could see a little track action of which none is shown in the photo.

[DeuceDeuce]

I then followed the Waze route to the Nürburgring and my God it was busy. Or maybe it wasn’t. I’ve never been before so have no comparison but there’s all manner of cars lined up waiting for their laps.

My favourite was this guy.

[Bill]

TBF Spa is pretty epic as circuits go.

[DeuceDeuce]

This was my taxi:



€389 for a one lap with a friendly and capable driver. €29 for a video of it. Can’t wait to watch it as Irma a bit of blur right now.

[Earthdweller]

DeuceDeuce said:

I stopped at the track in Spa. I’ve never been to a race track before and was quite surprised at some of the gradients.

Not much to see as it was pretty much closed for private testing but could see a little track action of which none is shown in the photo.

Until you actually stand at the bottom of that you can't get an impression of just how steep it is nor how bad the vision over the brow is

[generationx]

Welcome to Germany! We did a similar trip today - Calais to Cologne past Spa’s front door (sort of). In my opinion traffic was very easy today and we had a really good run. The ‘Ring is only an hour south from here. Thinking about weather, the forecast looks pretty great for at least a week so you’ll be fine.

Spa is epic. Race tracks are always surprising in person, the camera angles really seem to flatten them out. Radillion (in your photo) is like a mountain! I’m lucky enough to have ridden around the track on an e-bike during a WEC weekend on a glorious, sunny day. Amazing, and glad of the electrical help.

The “new” Nurburgring is also surprisingly hilly towards and away from the bottom hairpin.

Have a great trip and keep the updates coming!

[andy118run]

DeuceDeuce said:

I then followed the Waze route to the Nürburgring and my God it was busy. Or maybe it wasn’t. I’ve never been before so have no comparison but there’s all manner of cars lined up waiting for their laps.

My favourite was this guy.

Don't worry, that's just Donald taking his b*tch JDV for a trip round the ring.