We love E30s (surprise, surprise), and it doesn’t get any better than Wheelmen’s, who were lucky enough to take their lovely cars on a driving tour of the Ardennes recently:
From their dispatch:
Most beautiful surprises were the Routes du Crêtes (road over the “mountaintops”) in France, the Hautes Fagnes in Belgium and the Mullerthal region in Luxembourg (“little Switzerland”). But actually all connecting roads were almost just as wonderful. Road conditions were overall very good, with a few bad surfaces here and there. Even though this long weekend meant holiday for most countries in Europe, there wasn’t much traffic. In fact, we never had any jams. Even when a camper was once in front of us, it just took one corner to take care of that.
Sounds like a winner to us. See and read the rest of their feature here.
..that is, one that wasn’t a race car, then this is it— watching (and hearing) this blood red Hakosuka tear up Miller Motorsports Park in Utah is a real pleasure.
Turn 5 at Thunderhill – alternately referred to as the Eagle’s Nest and the Cyclone – looks and sounds like a hoot. Because a lot of times cars will come out of there looking like this:
Of course, we also imagine this corner doesn’t go so well for plenty of other less fortunate drivers.
More on the corner:
Turn 5, a.k.a. the Cyclone, is where you learn to trust your corner workers. It is reminiscent of the Corkscrew at Laguna Seca, but is faster and blinder. The Cyclone consists of a sharp left-hand turn at the top of a ridge followed by a right-hand off-camber sweeper. Brake in a straight line coming up the hill, downshift to second, and turn in early, perhaps sooner than feels right. Begin to straighten and sqeeze the throttle as you crest. If you have aimed correctly, you will be against the burm on drivers right on the way down. This is a good place to grab third. Modulate the throttle through the right-hand sweeper, drift out, but bring the car back to driver’s right to set up for the left hand turn 6 (source).
..when you combine this car, the music of Etta James (one of the all-time soul greats), and that exquisite southern backdrop lined with Spanish moss! Brilliant— really just superb.
