Wow...Marlon's Travel Log continous..."After the visit to the F1 test in Spain my Dad, Chris and I travelled by car to Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium. Spa is the World's most exciting race track.
"After the visit to the F1 test in Spain my Dad, Chris and I travelled by car to Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium. Spa is the World's most exciting race track. Every racer loves it and it is a privilege to be able to drive there. I am not absolutely sure, but I might be the first Filipino race driver ever to race on this famous European track!
Wow, this is the best roller coaster I've been on...
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It is a great 'nature
track' located in the middle of a big forest with
trees all around. These have been safely removed from
the corners of the track in recent history and run
offs were constructed. In former times the track was
quite dangerous. It goes up and down with altitude
differences of more than 600 meters! When you come up
the famous 'Eau Rouge' curve, you shoot up into the
sky and soon after go steeply downhill and turn into
an extremely fast left hander. When you see these
curves during F1 races on TV you don't realize how
steep it actually is! You experience constantly
negative and lateral G-Forces that push you into the
seat and to the sides of the cockpit.
With Chris Wassermann and Italian mechanic Maurizio
in Spa,
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I did quite well during
the two half-day tests I was allowed to do and placed
constantly in the top five or ten. Not bad since the
best drivers are supposed to be in the BMW Europe
series. So I think I will be able to do well during
my guest races in summer, even so I was not allowed
to do more testing because the testing for guest
drivers in another BMW series is very limited."
Marlon