Zolder hotel. Very civilized. Will try to post a picture tomorrow, but the track is about 100 feet from the balcony!!
Yup guilty as charged for the schoolboy spelling error! Fixed now…
Another awesome day with lots of action on circuit, lots of banter, mixed conditions and a few tales to tell when we get back.
All the Exiges.com guys were flying. I did occasionally need to yield to this fella though!!
Now we’re at Zolder and as John says we’re literally staying at the circuit. Below is the view from my room. x3 consecutive days on circuit,…ooof I’m knackered.
Looks amazing lads! Very jealous. Enjoy!
Brill!
Does that Lambo actually growl??!
I’m sure the 2016 Spa Gentleman Racers Club will deny seeing any growlers whilst on tour.
Incredibly excellent week. Zolder was a real surprise after Spa, Belgium’s very own Oulton Park! Just superb, flat out on track and flat out banter. I’ll post stuff up if the lap top ever finishing loading windows 10. Book a Track were mega as ever, Jonny and the boys & girls really did themselves proud once again.
There were A LOT of stickers…!
^^^ that car had Brunno Senna & Chris Harris written on the side.
R10 SYD… not got a F40 stablemate has it?
Noooo I missed syd’s Enzo. Syd should come to the annual Exiges day at Easter in the P1. That’s a car I would love to see.
What an outing, what pics, what cars!!!
I am insanely jealous . . .
Well I thought last years Spa trip was Epic, and indeed it was, but it was completely outdone by this years trip.
What a week… As Jonny says, Zolder was an unexpected surprise and a great little track for our Caterhams…
Some lifelong memories for sure… haven’t laughed so much in a long time!
Sounds like you had a great trip Dave.
I would like to do a trip over to Spa at some point.
I had unfinished business with Spa. Last year my Exige developed a terminal problem about 20km from the hotel before we’d even got to the circuit. I spent two days fretting over repatriating the car and being generally moody. This year was going to be different…
My beautifully mint Exige stayed in its garage, and instead the journey started with an Uber cab to the M25 services to meet the lads. Five-up in John’s VW Touraeg is certainly an efficient and entertaining way to make a trip like this. This year the cars were all making their own way there on the BAT Wagon,…arrive 'n drive baby 
This year I’d be guaranteed to at least get on circuit.
Yup the car was not going to be the Exige but after a short taster in Dave’s R300 at Spa last year I knew it would be an awesome way to learn Spa and Zolder. With only 3-4 laps around Spa last year and never even been to Zolder, there was a hill to climb. Also with BAT looking after the car I was hopeful that mechanical gremlins would get resolved rather than ruining my fun.
We met up with Yvonne, Gary, Syd and their friend Sandy (who Jonnyfox called Andy for literally the whole trip until we corrected him at breakfast on the last day 
). Alas the ‘Steak on a Stone’ place was closed but we found somewhere else half decent. The social element really made the trip, there was a lot of banter and as Dave says I can’t recall the last time I laughed that hard 
The first of four great evenings.
Tue morning was dry and it was the happiest of garages to see our little R300’s installed in the enormous Spa garage. I’d gone a bit crazy with my new vinyl cutter and we had a LOT of stickers of the BatFerret logo we’d adopted.
Out on circuit, Spa really is an AMAZING circuit and if you’ve never been you must make the effort. So vast, so challenging and rewarding of commitment. After two days there I barely feel like I’ve scratched the surface. The R300 is properly quick around Spa and you need to be seriously ballsy to be quick,…there’s also lots of places where you can enjoy a bit of hoonage.
There was a McLaren private event on the Friday and the cars being unloaded and the setup was simply jaw-dropping. Four or five P1-GTR, you just don’t see that too often. Wow
The weather was very mixed and we had rain on both days at Spa. Its quite a daunting place in the wet but also a helluva lot of fun. Rain most certainly did not stop play!! At the end of the Kemmel I was trying to perfect drifts around all three parts of Les Combes. The Marshals posted there were hilarious practically holding up scorecards 
They were literally jumping up and down cheering when I nailed it Wow what a place
Onto Zolder and we stayed at Le Pits next to the circuit. The hotel is quite modern and Sandy’s (not Andy’s) GT4 looked stunning sitting outside so I grabbed my camera out of the car. I know there’s mixed view on Pork around here but the GT4 is a fantastic machine and if you could only have one car then it really has to be up there as a contender. Loved it. Can’t believe I neglected to take a pic of Syd’s Enzo,…another amazing machine albeit somewhat further out of reach for most of us.
Onto Zolder and its like going back in time somewhat compared to the modernity of the full FIA-approved Spa. Fantastic to arrive and see the cars all lined up ready to rock 'n roll.
Zolder is another treat of a circuit. I have to admit that I was very tired and I was not ‘on it’ enough to be really committed. My poor brain could not handle trying to learn another circuit. I did my best though and had a blast. Again very technical, fast but with a lot less margin for error than Spa. I loved it and chasing John around is one of those images that ingrained in my memory, what a LOT of fun. Dave (of course) and John were amazingly quick, great driving guys. It was a real treat to see DaveP keeping an exceptionally well-driven GT3-RS honest I also learned that you always need to be prepared for unexpected changes in grip when a GT3 dropped its coolant and the lunchtime rain had not dried on the tricky hill section when the rest of the circuit was bone-dry.
Anyways, what a fantastic week, a real treat. Great circuits, great cars and fantastic company,…truly epic.
Thanks too to Jonny Leroux and the Bookatrack team. All three days ran like clockwork and my car did not miss a beat, it just soaked up the punishment. I’ve been doing trackdays a fair while, and for hassle-free fun and to really move your driving on, then I think this formula with the Caterhams is hard to beat. I’m still grinning
Great write up Ben, thanks for sharing! You all looked like you had an epic trip!
Superb guys - thanks for sharing
Quite right, it’s a beaut.
Just wish they’d stop shoehorning it below the GT3 and see what it can really do (but they never will).
Bollox!
What have you done???