Today was race day with the main event starting at 2:30 but with support races before that. I wasn't too fussed about the support races so I had plenty of time in the morning.
I opted to go shopping and went to not one but two supermarkets to buy some lunch to avoid having to have another cat sick burger. I'd got enough for a home made sub and a bunch of drinks so that the rob dog places at the circuit couldn’t have the shirt off my back.
Oh I didn't mention breakfast. It was included with the room and was a standard buffet continental jobbie. However, the guy running it would only put out just enough food for who was in there, so when I rocked up, he put out a single croissant, but I wanted more, so I waited until some others arrived and stole theirs forcing him to put more out.
Back to my story about the supermarkets, well, it's not just Little Palestine where they can't Park, it must be all of Belgium. Check out how this woman parked her truck in a car park that was full (note that her number plate is 1 COW):
Off to the circuit; after yesterday's trouble of finding the car park I dropped a pin on the map where it was before I left so was able to find it easily. However the guy running the car park wouldn't let me in and motioned for me to go to the next one that was miles away. So I drove around the block and tried again and he let me in this time. You have to be careful who you call a little Hitler here as we're not that far away from Germany!
Inside the circuit I finally found how to get to a hidden grandstand. I knew it would be in the shade and have a good view of the hairpin so it was a good find. It turns out that it overlooked the pits too and the podium so it worked out well.
Prior to the race there was a good build up with comedic trampoliners (who thought of that career!), sky divers and girls with t-shirt cannons.
It was soon race time and it was quite eventful for the first few hours but got boring half way through as the fast cars had dropped out and everyone was well spaced out. So I took the opportunity to walk around for a bit as I hadn't done much of that. Unfortunately, this set my Hayfever off and I list vision out of my right eye so hot tailed it out of there after stopping by the pit lane one last time.
Back at the hotel I chilled out for half an hour to cool down and get changed. The town I was in only had 2 restaurants and a kebop shop so I went one town over to see if that was any better.
Good choice, this place appears to be the restaurant centre of Belgium. I had a look around and was going to go for the firey steak and then saw the pizza equivalent of Hooters which was coincidental as I suddenly fancied a pizza...
Writing this, I realise that I haven't had a rant yet today. Well let me tell you about the ability for my car to connect to my phone to play music. If I have my phone charging from the USB socket in the car (which I do all the time as it's also my satnav), then it auto plays the music from my phone.
This would be OK if actually played the music, instead it plays every voice sample from my satnav software one at a time in each language. It's an interesting way of learning new languages and I can now say "in 1000 meters turn right" in English, French, German and Japanese. Once it's finished with those it starts playing a random song then crashes half way through. It does this every time I start the car.
Needless to say, the volume is now set at 0 and I play music through my tinny phone speaker.
Rant over, I'm done now.
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