The 2.0 Litre Cup season continued at SPA Classic on May 23.-25. The SPA track is to many drivers (Including many F1 drivers) the best track in the world. The 7 km track goes up and down in the beautiful hills of Ardenne mountain area in Belgium. Elevation change on the track is about 100m. The track has very fast sections and turns as well as some very tight and slow corners. The only issue with SPA is that it is almost a rule that there will be rain. This year was not a exception.
We came to SPA on Thursday for the August track day which has been organized many years by Belgian Porsche dealer just before the SPA Classic. We had a good test session until our brake disks stop working in the afternoon. This happens now and then. The disks do not have any real wear, but they just suddenly start vibrating very strongly. This problem is known but quite unpredictable. When this happens there is nothing else to do than to change the disks. Better it happened in the tests than at the race.
The private practice and qualifying were on Friday. For us as a two driver team the short 30 min qualifying in SPA is a challenge. The 7 km long track means that Risto can have max 2 timed laps and Jussi 3 or max 4 laps. Already in qualifying it became clear that the level of the 28 car fleet was very high. We were 19/28 in the qualifying. The race was on Saturday and it was driven in full vet conditions. Risto was driving well and came in on the 5th position. But the very small differences between the cars and our 20 second handicap meant that Jussi got to the track only in position 17. Our final position was then 21/28. The car worked well and we were happy with our own driving, thus the final result reflects mainly the high level of competition in this series. Our next race is in the coming weekend at the GRAND PRIX DE L’AGE D’OR in Dijon, France.
