The difference in grip levels at Spa when it's greasy wet vs dry is hard to believe. It's common for the "wet line" to avoid all the apexes, braking zones, etc., but at Spa that is really true - you could go substantially faster off line - but every so often you end up on the dry line (traffic, letting people pass, whatever) and then you're slip sliding your way around the corner
Towards the very end of the day a dry line appeared ... just for half an hour or so .. but it was great while it lasted. Unfortunately I suffered a sensor failure (the neutral detection mechanism) which meant that I only had 5,500 RPM to play with ... which was interesting when it kicked in mid corner!
On the way back we won the music quiz against stiff opposition (there were 30 germans in one team of unfortunate children who were on a school exchange with a school in Motherwell - they are in for an eye opener I think!) - we were awarded the prize of a bottle of prosecco (sp?) - only after we had given it away did we realise we should have staged a podium event spraying prosecco over each other. Perhaps a bit homoerotic for the Geordie Express though
Cheers,
Robin
P.S. We had a huge delay getting on the ferry coming back ... some unfortunate had hidden themselves under a lorry but was spotted by some undercover spotters and then the whole port was on shutdown while they pissed about a lot doing nothing much
