cheers mario - she was faultless apart from a persistent fuelling issue which meant i only had base boost available. but this is one quick car, to me anyway. senny dave drove her sunday and had the brakes imitating barbeques, but was great, great fun with brilliant people from all nations in all marques. anyone who could have come and didn't, biggest mistake you've made...some legendary stuff that will unfortunately have to remain "what goes on tour stays on tour"....

thats not cool, just means me and nick and Mario will have to get you smashed so you spill the beans!!

lol

congrats on the trip, so gutted we missed out

Pretty miserable weekend for me unfortunately - i managed 3 hot laps in my car before it boiled it's coolant.

Luckily there were some superb mechanics along with us who diagnosed a possible sticking closed thermostat. We removed the stat and smashed a hole through the middle so it remained permanently open.

Next lap out with senny dave my coolant temps hit 147 degrees!

Looks like i have a head gasket failure.

Absolutely gutted after all the work i'd put in to get the car ready, and the 3 laps i did do, it was superb. Handled like a dream and went past 4 or 5 ferrari's like they were stood still.

It's been a bit of a crap year for me with this car, there is a strong chance this will be the end of it.

Other then the car issue i had a fantastic time. Great meeting everybody and drinking loads of booze.

A big thanks to JBT and senny dave for helping me with the car issues.

What time did you guys get back matt?Went the wrong way around the m25 didnt you?

at leaast you got the car back in one peice

No we went the right way. I had to stop at my dad's in london to swap cars. John took my car up to his garage and put it in my parking space. I got home around 230am. Kept having to stop for redbull though! What about you?

Fantastic weekend. Track was amazing and I will be going again next year for sure.

Nice to meet everyone

@ Matt...

bad news mate... cant believe your luck...

Was absolutely flagging mate,got in at about 2 am.

Red bull wasn't doing much to be fair,nodded dog impressions all the way home. At least you were able to get the car back.Fingers crossed for you mate.

I have to say Red Bull doesn't quite give you wings, but it certainly keeps you from drifting into the inside lane

1000 miles, plenty of beer, not enough asleep... what a cracking long weekend. It was a bit of a busman's holiday, and I even managed to exercise my French parlance, which after 16 years is just about alive and kicking, albeit lacking in technical detail

The track is quite simply awesome, supremely technical, ridiculously fast and the opposite of flat At 4.3 miles and speeds of 150mph it is big test of the car and indeed the driver. Unfortunately a misfire appeared at high boost so I was restricted to 1.3bar (circa 400-410bhp), more than enough to chase down a few Ferraris and Lambos I have to say the brakes were found a little wanting in terms of outright stopping power given the speeds, I blame Fiat! Of course, other than the obligatory wheel falling off, these things happen, thankfully not when going through Eau Rouge

I have a bit of video, in typical fashion the best session with Porkypaul didn't record 150mph through Blanchimont with the back end stepping out Still, managed to out drag a 360 when coming out level from the Bus Stop into La Source

Brilliant weekend, what a great bunch we are

Gill and I are just home,10 hour drive 866klms.Lugging the coupe and THAT trailor behind.Howard and Ed are home also.
Another fantastic Spa event.Great meeting old friends and making new ones.
Top marks as allways to our Pete & Bob.
I will post up pics later.
Remember Darlo Nick is on the ring today!!!

moved to spa pics

I'm home. Just.

Top weekend, really really enjoyed it. Didn't get a chance to see petep before he left but I'll take this opportunity to thank him and Bob (and anyone else involved in the organisation) for making it happen. Good effort too from everyone that made the journey out there.

Thanks for the week end and the calendar!
See you soon!

You really are you know

Thought I would pop on quickly to say hello before I hit the sack.

I really enjoyed this weekend. The weather was rubbish as we know but it didn't deter from the whole experience. Plenty of petrol and rubber still managed to get burnt and I was lucky enough to get a good few passenger rides with some fast cars.

Great to meet everybody spesh rubin, adam, nick, jonny, martin, sam, joe, marco to name a few.

I'll be along next year but as to whether dad is going to be able to persuade me to change over to a coop is anyone's guess!

Cheers you lot. pics going up shortly.

What a fantastic weekend - the company / banter / driving was top quality. Unfortunately mid-way through the Coupe session on Sunday I lost all my gears and was towed back to the Coupe area by a truck (at 60 mph !). My gear selector had broken.

A massive thanks to John JBT who fixed my car, to Taffy who let me have his short shift, and to Matt M for his tools, and eveyone else who was generally supportive. You guys are top.

Big thanks to Theresa for helping me with tyre changeovers / maintenance, drinking beer, etc etc. Gutted for you MattM ref your car, I hope you get something sorted out. And a big thanks to Pete and the rest of the Club team who organised this excellent event.

In summary - a lot of driving, a lot of beer, not a lot of sleep and of course *that* purple jumper

Great weekend,
feeling it today though,got in late this morning and i was up again at 8.
Great bunch of lads,and certainly an experience,.

Thanks to Insy,Flea and Mattm who took pity on me and gave me a few laps of the circuit.
And thanks to Reuben,Mattm and Mcmike for the lift there and back,.
Jo(magoo) for the great wine and entertainment,and to the others who put up with my drunken ramblings till gone 2am.

Matt i have had to put your car on my drive next to Pinins car as im having a dead coupe overload at the minute.
And mines taken your space.

Was great putting so many names to faces.

See you next year.

That was awesome, the face on the blokes face in the Ferrrai was brilliant as we went past him

We need to keep a lookout on the website of the US TV show Car Crazy

Representatives from the UK and French Coupé clubs were interviewed

That'll explain the odd american man who had to stand on the box when being filmed

I videod the filming session they did right in front of my car, was quite funny so I'll try and upload it later when I'm back from work.

Yes, that man was the chief executive of Meguires, who make all the car care products.
His family firm in fact.

They had also been filming our track sessions.

Ah blimey! Twitchy little fella he was

Be interesting to see what they come up with.

Fantastic weekend, we're very happy to see our UK's friends !
Thanks for the organisators from all the Club France and very special thanks for the presents

Brilliant to see you all again Julio. Can't wait for next time!

Pete

A quick check shows that we had coupe enthusiasts and their cars from at least 8 countries, Australia, Belgium, France, Greece, Luxemberg, Netherlands, Switzerland and United Kingdom.

Excellent stuff.

And even Sweden

To the guys from the camp site who stood during the bbq in the grass or anyone else who walked in the tall grass, check for ticks (harvest bug?) i had one on my leg who was pretty large, doctor had to remove it by cutting and now have to take antibiotics for the Lhyme disease. Those bugs start very small but mine had become quite large actually.

arhhh really smetnbe,full inspection later then.

Hope your ok.BBq was nice though

nice meeting you

The campsite was very well located - 1st left out of the circuit. My satnav took me down the little lane where it is on my way back home. Grounded out a few times, it really is a tiny lane.

@ coupedummy: yes the bbq was great, i guess the bug wanted to have some of that fine liquor that magooagain made and decided to take me as a host Allso great meeting you guys

@ Yellafella: indeed we drove out of the camping, turned to the right and after 3 minutes we were at the back of the track, very well located

did anyone keep the web address for the website of the photographer who was taking shots at the track?