tumblewood
7th June 2007, 13:13
What a fabulous days racing in the Pyrenean foothills.
Racing on real roads, centred in a beautiful wooded park and local residential roads slap bang in the centre of town. Airport bus takes you to the railway station which is directly opposite the first corner, arrived at the track at 10am just in time for the 1st WTCC race.
Very much a follow-me-leader track, but very enjoyable to watch and was great to be there.
The Chevy’s were flying and sounded fabulous, well done to Alan Menu and Huffy. Andy Priaulx gave Farfus a run for his money in the 2nd race but just could not get by. What a great job carried out by the Farfus team to totally re-build his BMW overnight, after his flying and barrel roll demo the day before.
The supporting acts were the International Formula Masters (F3000), Peugeot 207 Spider Cup, Peugeot 206CC Cup, Mit’Jet Championship, being spaced framed cars with 1300cc Yamaha bike motors and modern GRP bodies such as the Megane, Leon, 316 etc. Very similar to our own Legends but slightly scaled up. They appeared to have great difficulty in controlling the back end round this track but did they go. From afar, they looked for all the world like little kids toy cars. Also running as support was the French/Spanish equivalent of our Seat Cupra Cup but all new generation turbo Leon’s. Don’t know how many were racing but it was a large number. They had two rounds that day, with just about 15 minutes between the back-to-back races. A swarm of these cars going by was an absolute symphony to the ears. To be honest they sounded far more powerful than the WTCC. From the rear, these cars look extremely mean and moody with the fender arrangement and the under-slung plating around the exhaust box. Our very own Tom Boardman was running in the middle order.
My photo’s of the day can be found on –
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8737081@N04/?saved=1
Racing on real roads, centred in a beautiful wooded park and local residential roads slap bang in the centre of town. Airport bus takes you to the railway station which is directly opposite the first corner, arrived at the track at 10am just in time for the 1st WTCC race.
Very much a follow-me-leader track, but very enjoyable to watch and was great to be there.
The Chevy’s were flying and sounded fabulous, well done to Alan Menu and Huffy. Andy Priaulx gave Farfus a run for his money in the 2nd race but just could not get by. What a great job carried out by the Farfus team to totally re-build his BMW overnight, after his flying and barrel roll demo the day before.
The supporting acts were the International Formula Masters (F3000), Peugeot 207 Spider Cup, Peugeot 206CC Cup, Mit’Jet Championship, being spaced framed cars with 1300cc Yamaha bike motors and modern GRP bodies such as the Megane, Leon, 316 etc. Very similar to our own Legends but slightly scaled up. They appeared to have great difficulty in controlling the back end round this track but did they go. From afar, they looked for all the world like little kids toy cars. Also running as support was the French/Spanish equivalent of our Seat Cupra Cup but all new generation turbo Leon’s. Don’t know how many were racing but it was a large number. They had two rounds that day, with just about 15 minutes between the back-to-back races. A swarm of these cars going by was an absolute symphony to the ears. To be honest they sounded far more powerful than the WTCC. From the rear, these cars look extremely mean and moody with the fender arrangement and the under-slung plating around the exhaust box. Our very own Tom Boardman was running in the middle order.
My photo’s of the day can be found on –
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8737081@N04/?saved=1