24 hours of Spa is like a spicy meal.
As you might have read before, Beau is our guy for motorsports. Well… he invited me to join him on reporting the Spa 24hours, and so I did. F*ck me this is exhausting, they call it at endurance race but they might as well call it an endurance for the spectators as well. We started our day earlier then the start of the 24hours, as the program before hand offered a lot of interesting content. Like the Aston Martin Vulcan in a 650hp set up. So no, not a 24 hour reporter job, but a 30 hour one. The start was awe inspiring really, the entire pack being so close to each other and roaring up Eau Rouge. The downpour was killing though, for the cars and spectators. The cars slid of one by one and hours of safety cars ensued. As the night fell the weather cleared up and I headed home as my girl didn’t cope with the endurance anymore. I slept for 4 hours before returning too Beau and Stan, only to find them in a mix of exhaustion and enthusiasm. I think Beau never gets tired when in in a circle of 1 kilometers of a track. We slowly walked back to the track after some breakfast and carspotting at the roundabout. There wasn’t that much left of the field when we came back, a lot of crashes and technical failures plagued the race. I still don’t know if was happy with the finishing for the teams or for us surviving it all. I once read somewhere that a 24hour race is like a curry, it burns but you enjoy it. And so I did.
Some pictures below that I took during the endurance race, more will be incoming the following days. Lenses I took with me were the 12-40mm and 40-150mm from Olympus.
