NÜRBURGRING!

Finally, here are the shots taken at the Nürburgring last month!

We’ve each driven the ‘Ring many times, but never in Blue Pao, which did brilliantly at a determined and respectable speed all the way round. The car got a bit warm but then again so did we - the weather was still very summery. Leigh took the wheel for this one and we’re focussed in these pictures, but as usual, he grinned all the way to the final straight, and we went back later for the legendary burgers at the Devil's Diner.

We were there on one of the 5 stops made on our 1500-mile round trip through France, Belgium, Holland and Germany in September, which included a wedding, the Corso Zundert flower parade, the annual Dutch Pao meet and our friends' wedding. The Pao loves the long, smooth, un-pot-holed roads there, and went for miles at a time at a really decent speed and ride. We made some tweaks to our stereo before we went too, also making sure the little extra fan in the cockpit worked, and us and all our luggage, plus parts requested by fellow Pao owners to be handed over at the annual Paos'R'Us, fitted comfortably inside.

[It might be noticed that these photos have a slight touch of that eerie 'touched by the hand of AI' feel. This is not us. When you order the roadside photos of your lap, taken by the various professional photographers positioned at different points around the 13-mile long track, you receive the photos as finished by them. Ideally, they'd be as raw as our lap was!]