Andy H STi

HELP! Please!

Does anyone work for P&O? Me and a mate wanted to take a trip over to the Nurburgring in March ( 24th - 28th ) and can't get the trip for less than £300!!!!! Which to me seems scandelous seeing as you can fly for £90 each return.

Cheers guys.

Andy

S.B.

You can fly your car over for £90?

ProperCharlie

Try Norfolk Line. Their boats look like they've been rescued from the breakers yard and you'll probably be the only one who isn't driving an artic, but I have found them to be cheaper in the past.

ethanrob

iTrader: (3)

I had a leaflet through the door a week or so ago and at present they are doing them there mini cruise things for £64 for two peeps and ones car

Geek Boy

www.speedferries.co.uk - £50

www.ferrysavers.co.uk - £72

Daryl

Try Sea France

Andy H STi

Thats settled it, looks like were gonna go to Calais ( theres a load of the other lads paying £328 on P&O to Zeebrugge ) and then drive up. Save well over £150 including petrol and a leisurly drive through France and Belgium to meet them at the ferry port. Well excited, never been to the Nurburgring. Going in my mates Escort Cosworth, should be fun as hes an awesome driver. Heel toe and all that

Cheers for the help guys.

Andy

GC8

Id go to Boulogne with SpeedFerries and save £278 myself.....

www.speedferries.co.uk

Simon

Geek Boy

I guess living in St Helens our good freind did not state which port he wanted to sail from, I am guess now, it aint dover.

Kind of key to the thread I guess

GC8

Well; considering this comment; Im guessing it is Dover, as you cant get a ferry to Calais from Hull.....

Simon

Geek Boy

Thats what I thought but then I guess you would save well over £200 if you did that.....

Jaybird-UK

another vote for www.speedferries.com £50 regardless of stay

Andy H STi

The lads are sailing from Hull to Zeebrugge, but we are gonna make an adventure ( and save ££££'s! ) of it and go Calais to Bolougne from Calais with SpeedFerries ( only £50 ( +£10 for 1st Class ) and meet them at Zeebrugge, cheers Geek Boy for that link. Gonna book it in the morning.

Whats the Nurburgring like? Whos drove it? Well excited, I'm getting to drive the Cosworth round too as I'm leaving my Scoob at home.

Andy

Clarebabes

Well, it aint nothing special as a track

No, seriously, it will scare the living sh1te out of you for the first few times you go there, then it scares the living daylights out of you for the first few laps of your susbsequent trips - well, it does me anyway. You have to respect it, never say that you've got it beaten because it will bite you on the bum.

I have driven quite a few laps now and I have managed to get about 9.30-9.45 laps (btg), but alot of the time I go out with the girls for a leisurely lap or 2.

Here's me driving:



My partner Dave driving my Clio for a lap:

http://laudalinks.free.fr/vids/clio_9.04_low.wmv

The actual driving isn't everything about going to the ring though. It's the whole social thing too and the fact that everyone there is there for one thing - the track. The beer is excellent, food is good - not cheap in Nurburg though. You get to see cars on the track which you never see on the road in the UK and some spectacular cars crashing quite well too!

Above all, respect the track. It will take you a good few laps before you know where it goes. Take as many passenger laps as you possibly can, this is one of the best ways of getting to know the track and how to drive it - and sometimes how not to! (But that's another story).....

Questions? Go to Ben Lovejoy's website, or see Dave's site for reports: www.dmalings.co.uk

Let me know if you have any further questions and I'll try and answer them for you. Cheers

Andy H STi

Cheers for that Clare ( nice plate by the way! ) Just downloading the video now, will post ours up if I come back in one piece.

There are some serious motors coming with us, including a 500+bhp rear wheel Cossie ( all RS500 engine management etc ).

I'll be lucky to break a 20min lap, LoL. I'll be out as passenger alot tho!

Just worked it out using Multimap.com that it'll take us 11hrs ( including crossing ) and 730 miles to drive to Nurburg ( via the dam ), which is the same as what their crossing will take and they then have 370 miles from the port to Nurburg. Well happy, saved £££'s and having a bigger adventure!

Andy

Nevetas

Eurotunnel, 1 car, return, £98 all in!

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