Historic Grand Prix, Zandvoort
Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2017 11:54 am
I can't even remember how I found out about this. I've lived here for a while now and see the sign for Zandvoort every time I head down the A9, and I always think 'hmmm, really should have a look...' And then I forget, until one weekend when we're invited to go camping in the dunes a few k down the road. It's the height of summer, so yeah, why not? A couple of minutes after peeling off the A9 I see a time-attacky looking MX-5 on a trailer. Then a time-attacky looking SLK. Then another, then another, then another...
The camping weekend was good. Sun, sand, sea that I never went into, because, let's face it, the North Sea is friggin' cold no matter the time of year, BBQ, and beer. And the near-constant howl of tuned MX-5s and SLKs.
4G is everywhere in mainland Europe. Google is literally in my pocket. Well, in my telephone in my pocket, but let's not argue semantics, kay? *tap tap tap*
'Track day, track day, concert, track day, trac...tor show, DTM, 7 and 7 lookalikes day, track day, Historic Grand Prix!'
I couldn't make the DTM. I wasn't missing the Historic Grand Prix. Not when the photographs on the site showed, well, lots of cool stuff being used in anger.
Opens Reisplanner Application on modern telephony device. 16 Euro return from my nearest railway station, about an hour there, same back. Got a ten minute change in Haarlem. I don't need an excuse to bask in the wonder of that particular railway station. Sold. Absolutely sold.
And so the weekend came, and Friday was minging. Properly minging - dark, cloudy, close and with proper full-on cloudbursts. Saturday was the same. curse word, thinks I. And then at around 6 it cleared. Game on. The next day came and it was glorious. I mean, seeing classic racecars sliding about would have been cool and all, but I hate being cold and damp. Or warm and damp, that's worse. And Saturday had alternated between the two. Sunday was glorious, though. So my boy and I jumped on our bikes, jumped on a train, then walked a kilometre from there, to be greeted with the arse end of a 964 on a roundabout:
Yeah, I walked around to get a pic of the front. It didn't let up any for the next six hours or so...
The camping weekend was good. Sun, sand, sea that I never went into, because, let's face it, the North Sea is friggin' cold no matter the time of year, BBQ, and beer. And the near-constant howl of tuned MX-5s and SLKs.
4G is everywhere in mainland Europe. Google is literally in my pocket. Well, in my telephone in my pocket, but let's not argue semantics, kay? *tap tap tap*
'Track day, track day, concert, track day, trac...tor show, DTM, 7 and 7 lookalikes day, track day, Historic Grand Prix!'
I couldn't make the DTM. I wasn't missing the Historic Grand Prix. Not when the photographs on the site showed, well, lots of cool stuff being used in anger.
Opens Reisplanner Application on modern telephony device. 16 Euro return from my nearest railway station, about an hour there, same back. Got a ten minute change in Haarlem. I don't need an excuse to bask in the wonder of that particular railway station. Sold. Absolutely sold.
And so the weekend came, and Friday was minging. Properly minging - dark, cloudy, close and with proper full-on cloudbursts. Saturday was the same. curse word, thinks I. And then at around 6 it cleared. Game on. The next day came and it was glorious. I mean, seeing classic racecars sliding about would have been cool and all, but I hate being cold and damp. Or warm and damp, that's worse. And Saturday had alternated between the two. Sunday was glorious, though. So my boy and I jumped on our bikes, jumped on a train, then walked a kilometre from there, to be greeted with the arse end of a 964 on a roundabout:
Yeah, I walked around to get a pic of the front. It didn't let up any for the next six hours or so...