I still remember the first time Spa Italia was organized, it was a small event with a good mix of Italian cars. Well the paddock was pretty crowded this year even if the weather was very bad for the time of the year. To bad there weren’t any races going on, only some demo laps behind pace cars and some free driving. I prefer some more action on a track like Spa Francorchamps. I didn’t stay very long so only 353 photos. I did spot the new Ferrari 458 Italia, and it does look good. My favourite car was the yellow Lamborghini Miura, although it wasn’t in the best shape.

Spa Italia 2010 gallery

Never seen the paddock at Spa Francorchamps so busy as last saturday. When I arrived in the morning I almost couldn’t find a spot to park my car and pick up my media pass and jacket. Over 600 historic racing cars participated in this event. And a lot more spectators then last years edition showed up, that might have something to do with the very good weather for the time of the year. Saw a lot of interesting cars on the track but also parked in the paddock. For the second time in my life I saw a McLaren F1, not a racecar but for many years this was the fastest production car in the world. I made a lot of photos, I’ve uploaded no less then 1527 photos to this gallery.

Group C racing at Spa Francorchamps is something I wouldn’t miss for the world. To bad there weren’t many competitors, only 8 group C cars turned up. And unfortunately there were no Porsche 962′s, but one of my favorite cars, the Silk Cut Jaguar XJR-8 was again racing at Spa. Driven by Justin Law it won the race, just like last year. These cars may be 20 years old but they still fly. Justin Law’s fastest time on sunday was 2:18.15. Last year the fastest lap during a Belgian GT race was set by a Mosler MT900, it managed only 2:25.812. The current Le Mans series cars are ofcourse a bit faster, during the 2008 1000km of Spa a Peugeot 908 set the fastest lap at 1:59.069, an average speed of more then 189km/h.

I was very surprised to see a Ferrari 250 GTO parked on a trailer in the pits. You don’t really expect to see a car worth several millions of Euro’s parked on an open trailer. I had a good look at it but couldn’t tell if it was the real thing or just a replica. When I came home and googled the number plate I found this. So technically it’s not even a Ferrari but a Datsun, what a disappointment. Still it’s one of the best looking Datsun’s I have ever seen.

730 photos from sunday in this gallery.