Ronny Gabriels Photography

The first race weekend for me in over a month turned out not to be everything I was hoping it to be.  The VW Fun Cup 25h has quite a nice line-up.  With the Belgian GT and the BTCS racing as an opening act followed by the biggest “amateur” endurance race of the season it promised to be interesting to say the least.  But this still is Belgium and at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit there is one thing you can never discount, the rain. 

For my third race weekend in a row, the rain spoiled a lot.  Where I was hoping to stay at least ‘till after dark, by 4PM I had been rain-soaked twice and my knees were killing me (what happens in very humid weather). So what should have been a long day at the track, turned out to be a short day. 

Too bad, because the atmosphere was there, a lot of entertainment and some great racing.  I got shots from the Belgian GT and BTCS races and some more shots from the paddock where VW was ever-present.  So all in all it certainly wasn’t a waist, but it could have been so much more. The photos can be found, as always, on the site under “Photos --> Racing Season 2009”.

So I’m driving to southern France tonight (after the Scott Kelby’s Photo Walk here in Antwerp) and will get back to Spa next weekend for, I hope, a rain-free and spectacular 24h of Spa FIA GT. So hope to see you all there for one of the most famous endurance races in the world (damn Le Mans ;-))