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Pretty impressive set of results and the car still in one piece - cracking season mate.

I did the maths, this is the first one. After last year's budget cheating. To be fair, he’s really deserved it.

Ooooh which model? I keep eying these up.

If ever there was a reason to get a switchable screamer pipe fitted...

Messed about with DALL-E not been blown away by the finer detail, but obviously the underlying tech is impressive. A red nissan 350z in a blade runner style manga cartoon A photograph of a red Nissan 370z Nismo in front of the eiffel tower As you can see, it's hit and miss!

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Bloody hell Glen, you’re a busy bloke, I can’t keep up!

Rare sight in amber round here.

I love the Mustang, but for 300k, I hope they spent something on the interior!

Great to see you're still alive.

It amazes me even more when people take them off and put on cast lead Wolfrace and Rotas

Gorgeous motor this, GLWTS.

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With Andy, BBK and now you - this is turning into a 2024 adventure 😊🏎️

No need to apologise, cracking photos, nice that your Dad let you borrow his race suit!

It was amazing and the Cayman would be perfect there. I have been thinking seriously about it since before Covid (which blocked two trips to Spa I had booked) and eventually @docwra just said stop being a fanny and get it booked - wise words. Well, as it happens, I have the numbers to hand. This was based on sharing an Airbnb with a mate, but if you went on your own, there were hotels nearby at the £90 mark. I didn’t pay any French motorway tolls on my route. Also we booked tuition and split a garage, which is £90 you could shave off. The garage was handy, but not that special. The tuition with Calum Lockie is second to none, done two on track sessions with him now and I can’t recommend highly enough - real racing driver, not “just” an instructor. So I would spend that money again in a heartbeat. I drove from north England and stayed in Folkestone the night before the Le Shuttle, if you cut that hotel out and drove all the way in one day, plus the other savings, you could do it for ~£867. Above does not include petrol and food, but petrol and food don’t count, as they are life essentials! It was roughly €1.65 a litre for V Power everywhere Euro side, except for Total Super at the track which was €1.98 a litre - you will need at least one circuit top up at 4 miles a lap! You might find a cheaper track day provider, but I wouldn’t bother, Gold Track are superb and you wont save a fortune by picking one of the others. Plus you get to see all the GT3s, GT4s, Radicals, etc instead of battered Hondas and Clios (sorry Andy! ) plus the expensive motors are much more scared of the idiot in the MX5, than I was of them! The lunch buffet wasn’t cheap at €30, but easily the best meal I’ve had at a track (better than some restaurants) with incredible views, but you could save monies with a picnic. Defo bring lots of supermarket water! It is a wedge for a single track day, with no real “holiday” time to relax, but for a major personal life goal - a total bargain. You only get one ride and you cant take your savings with you into the afterlife! If I went again, I’d ideally stay longer and fold it into a full road trip to Germany for visits to Porsche & Mercedes and The Ring. The elephant in the room is Track Day Insurance, I didn’t take cover for the MX5, but would have done for the Cayman and that adds significant expense for your peace of mind on damage to the car, the track and also recovery to the UK.

If you get serious about it next year, let me know, I’d be keen.

I do want to do the Ring, at some point, but I’d go back to Spa again before doing the Ring for the first time. I just loved it. I don’t want to go in the snow though

Ticked off a life goal with this one. Always wanted to go to Spa, easily my favourite track, for the F1 or maybe even a track day... so we took a bit of a scenic route through NE France, the Ardennes and into Belgium - it's a pretty route but not spectacular. It took the better part of a day with the Chunnel crossing and scenic route. Turns out the excellent A & B roads in France end at the Belgian border - the last hour or so was spine crushing in the race car! Eventually made it to the AirBnB and got some tea on - just 5 minutes drive from Spa-Francorchamps. Then it was the big day. I won't lie, I was giddy as a schoolboy driving up to the circuit, I've wanted to do this for as long as I've enjoyed the smell of petrol - and this place does not disappoint. The setting in the hills, the surrounding forest, the sheer scale of the place, the stands, proper marshalls and LED flags - different gravy this place! The forest INSIDE the circuit near Raidillon. Oh and the metal on show... This guy was bricking it when he saw my MX-5 pull in Fancy nuts! You know it's a real race car when a lawnmower has to pull it round the paddock You couldn't move for Porsche's - GT4s, GT3s, GT3RS, Boxsters and Caymans too. I was almost sad I didn't bring mine, but I would have spent the day scared of banging it, instead of fully committing in the Mazda. Rare beasts these Project 8s - no less than two out - that's more than the ubiquitous Yari you see at track days. But the real star was keeping cool in the WEC Garage... We were in the poverty garages, the fancy ones were taken over for the 24 Hrs of Spa bikes... The view for lunch from the, rather superb, restaurant patio. As for the track itself - what a ride! In equal measures fun and terrifying, the speed you can carry in Eau Rouge, Radillon and Double Gauche were incredible - took a lot of laps to build up confidence to go full send. I thought Radillon would be the most scary but actually Blanchimont required the most commitment. This is only the second time I have run Cup 2 Connects on the MX5 and the ambient temp was about 28C - slightly too warm for optimal, but I musn't complain! God only know what this would be like in the rain Annoyingly my GoPro footage isn't great - I had to reduce resolution down to 2k to stop it overheating and forgot to recheck the field of view, so I have lots of beautifully exposed car interior and blown out track - grrrrr. Gonna have to go back again! Here's my quickest one - 3:10 to do 4.35 miles on my first trip - very pleased. That's averaging over 80, with the Bus Stop and La Source both being jogging pace! If you're very bored, here's my full 24 Minutes of Spa - including some tuition for me - contains strong language and unvarnished views on track etiquette - you have been warned! This is mainly for keeping my memories and looking back in future, than out and out entertainment.

Why is it always like this with your posts? You’ve had to wait a few hours whilst volunteer mods are living their lives, for an ad that doesn’t meet a very simple set of rules, and managed to have an editing hissy fit and tantrum post to boot. I’m tired of it and a good few other civil members are too. Grow up, or spend your time elsewhere, it’s that simple.

Careful. You’re in ban country

Looks like mega turnout and some gorgeous Zs in there. Amazing work putting this together @davey_83 cracking dedication to the cause

No one (outside the community) is interested in car content that does not make people mad. 😂

I just picked up the first set I found online, looking back, I'd try and get longer ones, as you can see they can only cover so much. When I put them on in winter, I'll coat everything with WD40 to try and keep the exposed bits from corroding.

Do it mate, it’s a cracking location and track. It’s properly exposed, so if you get the other kind of weather, it will be challenging, but I’m sure you’d still love the track. I’ve just booked to go back on 2nd August, get involved! https://www.goldtrack.co.uk/track-days/anglesey-circuit-track-day-02-august-2023/