I met Peter at the F1 Racing Quiz Night at the British Grand Prix earlier in the year and was quite jealous when I heard he was also going to the Belgian Grand Prix, two races in one year just isn’t fair! He typed up his soggy but spectacular weekend in Spa and asked me to share it on Niawm, so here it is; the Belgian Grand Prix from a fans perspective. I think you’ll agree he got some brilliant shots as well!
You can keep up with Peter on Twitter @petebrooks.
Having been to Spa in 2011, this visit was booked as soon as the tickets became available for 2012 for a few reasons. One being it was so good last year we had to return and another being that the official ticket vendor does a progressive discount and you can get 20% off. Both good reasons to splash out early in my opinion.
We already knew where we would probably be staying. Having checked out the astronomical prices for hotels, we camped for the second time at Camping Spa D’Or . Their prices are slightly inflated for the weekend, but reasonable. It’s a proper campsite so has all the facilities you don’t normally find on F1 ‘field’ style sites and they are properly geared up to run at full capacity. There’s plenty of on site entertainment as well and the small nightclub above the restaurant provided an education in Dutch Gabber music and the, ahem, associated dance moves.
The site is about 12km from Francorchamps and having forgotten to order official parking with our tickets we found plenty of other parking available as you approach the circuit, along with the obvious traffic jams that get worse the later you arrive. We had no difficulty parking within 20 mins of the circuit on all days and on Friday even ended up right outside an entrance gate.
The Friday of a GP weekend is always a good time to wander. If you do that at Spa then you have to be prepared to walk. Its the longest circuit on the calendar so bring some good boots. And an anorak. This year unfortunately the Friday was a complete wash-out. Read the rest of this entry →
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