SPA 2012

Donal got a surprise, short notice, call up from the new owners of the 109 car to go to Spa for, what is now called, the Be Trophy 3000Km Fun Cup race.

The car, which is now sponsored by The Insurance Store, has had a lot of refurbishment at the behest of John Coyle, who now owns it. Included in this is a new sequential gearbox.

There was some debate up to a month before the date as to whether the race was going to run. As a result of this only 79 cars were entered as opposed to 170 odd in previous years. Even with this reduction, the start was impressive.

We were running well until, around six hours in, a component in the suspension snapped, putting John into the Armco. We lost over three hours with recovery and repairs.

At the end of 24 hours we had covered 315 laps and were in 55th place. We were the 18th petrol engined car home. Over half the field were diesel engined cars, which are considerably quicker. The diesels filled the first 9 places. Amazingly, after 24 hours the winning margin by the #264 Delahaye/Retrodor car over the 2nd placed #56 ASH/PVI car was only 1.809 seconds!

Refuelling.

SPA

The Trackskills Dynamic Duo of Keith and Donal were off to Spa again in July 06 for the 25 hour VW Fun Challenge.