Hey Paul, lend it to Spud - are you mad [&:]
ORIGINAL: Burzel
Get it out and spank it again,or let spud borrow it for a season,hope you are well.
Thanks all for your thoughts and feedback.
I'm lucky to have been able to drive my 64RS on the Nordschleife and at Spa on numerous occasions over the years and learn the circuits well enough to put in some respectable lap times. The 64RS felt as though it had been designed with the Ring in mind and is its spiritual home in my opinion. These days the opportunity to drive at the Ring as we did ten or more years ago has gone, with it nigh impossible to get insurance for track days and the risks you have to accept if you use it on public days. [
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Fortunately it is still relatively easy to drive at Spa on well organised track days, but I'm not good enough (or perhaps brave enough [
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]) to push the 64RS round there at its limits. I remember a Spa visit back in 2007/8 being approached by a someone I'd not previously met who was enthralled by the car and pestered me for a few passenger laps. I obliged and we did three of four laps (lapping between 2' 55" & 3') with a couple of sage suggestions coming from the passenger seat in the latter laps.
When we returned to the pits, it transpired that my passenger was none other than Richard Williams, a Porsche Supercup driver from that era. With my heart in my mouth and knowing that I wouldn't be covered by insurance if anything happened, I asked him whether he'd like to do a few laps with me as passenger. We were on the pace from the first lap and for much of the first two or three laps my overriding emotion was one of terror [
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]. Richard was reeducating me in what the car was capable of doing, and in a car I thought I knew well, that was quite an unsettling experience! Then my nerves began to settle and I was able to enjoy and watch in awe as Richard threw the car into corners at unimaginable speeds and manhandle it perfectly through the apex and on.
We returned to the pits after a total of six or so laps with Richard effusing over how great the earlier cars were compared to their modern counterparts. It was a humbling experience, but one I will remember. With the 996 GT3RS I now share and race in the Porsche Club Speed Championship, I have a very capable RS to use at Spa without having to risk using the 64RS. It will also be the GT3RS that gets taken up to Oulton again for this year's March RS track day event.
In the meantime, I think my 64RS has a pampered retirement to look forward to, although I can't see my wife agreeing to keeping her in the living room! [
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ORIGINAL: Hacki
Maybe she´ll get a place, where you can see her? E. g. the living room? Or a garage with a big window? Seeing her on a sunny day means taking her out for a ride.....