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Anyone prone to missing drivers briefings, be warned- €150 Euro fine at Spa!
Now how about a fine for any driver not listening to what’s being said in the briefing...... |
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If you mean ‘how would you know if a driver has missed the briefing?’ Normal practice is that you have to sign against your name on a list. One organiser now hole punches your wrist band.....
If you mean ‘how would you know if a driver has paid attention?’ -Maybe a written test afterwards... You wouldn’t believe how often, after the CoC has hammered home a particular point, it’s questioned again by someone at the end..... |
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...or ignored when they get out on the track!
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And that.....
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Dust just about settled from Goodwood . Two extreamly busy days ahead but then me and Delta truck are heading for Spa. Looking forward to it very very much . See you there . 😀
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Enjoy yourself. Hope it's a great meeting.
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Ready to go! The cars have been polished to within an inch of their lives, and the truck has also had a good clean up after Ricard trip. Ferries booked.....
Weather forecast looking OK for the weekend, with rain only mentioned for late Thursday. BUT, it’s Spa, so will be prepared for anything...... |
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Written test seems like a good idea. And "it’s questioned again by someone at the end" would seem to be very worrying considering that the level of personal success enjoyed by most of the drivers in order to be able to afford to race at such an event surely suggests that they should have the required skills to be able to assimilate information quite readily. That said I suspect there may be more than a few apparently successful people who may not be quite so quick on the uptake and whose success is based on repetitive questioning to make sure they get the same answer each time - no matter how simple the point being made might be. Once into that habit it seems it can be difficult to break it. |
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I think sometimes the question is asked again by someone hoping to get a different answer! Come to think of it, I can remember that happening....
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Ah!, Well I have known that technique to be used to gently propose that wrong information has been shared without making an outright challenge to the content. In your example it seems to have worked. |
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Pit box allocation for 6hrs received! We’re one from the bottom in #45, and next to Michael Birch, Mr Burnett and co.....
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Wish I was going, Arthur's birthday weekend (he'd like to be there too) but Mrs Zef still has no passport due to the high efficiency of the home office reissuing her ILR. 6 weeks so far with no ID!
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Can you still recognise her?
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Shame, Joe. Just looking down the list of entries for the 6 and the pit box allocation for the meeting brings home what a huge meeting it still is. Brings out goose bumps!
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It's the best historic race meeting, at the best circuit, in the nicest countryside, in the world.
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What is the latest thinking of whether to go via Brussels or Lille?
I read a thread on here years ago that went on for pages and pages. Just wondering whether Brussels is still solid on a typical thursday at 2-3pm? Went Lille route three years ago. It was fine but seemed a really noisy drive with a lot of concrete road surface....although that mattered less when we blew a sparkplug out of the motorhome, disconnected the injector for that cylinder and carried on on 9 cylinders. Then it was loud!!! |
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There are 2 road works on the E40 west of Brussels in Ghent region that slow you down a little bit as well. They were just lane width restrictions with speed limit. Looking at live traffic at moment seem to be same. There were also road works between Calais and Dunkirk on the A16 in the summer but they have finished for the moment. The bridge works of the last few years between Spa and Brussels are all done, thank goodness..... Last edited by Mike Bell; 11 Sep 2018 at 05:16. Reason: Added info |
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Don't make the mistake I made first time I went to Spa. Approaching Brussels we could not see any signs for Liege and ended up in Brussels suburbs. Eventually got the map out and realised Liege is also known as Liuk. Duh!! Lost more than an hour fannying around. Probably the reason I bought a satnav. |
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Going, and towing, I prefer Lille, but coming back usually entails a mid day trip around Brussels and its pretty easy. I've not noticed any significant time saving between each route though.
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Brussels every time, unless I was visiting friends in Landelies ( South of Charleroi ) the Ring is only small, so even when it's slow it 20m or so tops.
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I shall be getting of the ferry soon . Will take the E40 high road . Will report in when I get to Spa .
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Todays news is that the tunnel at Tervuren (exit 1) is closed and will cause tail backs, that is 2 exits beyond the Liege/Luik = Spa/E40 exit so shouldn't be a big problem...
The Lille route is longer/slower, maybe 20 mins or so, which means you need significant delays on the Brussels route for it to be slower overall. Good luck to all those heading to Spa - luck at Spa and in getting there! |
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