My friend asked me to go with him to a hillclimb in Germany last sunday.
Sounded like a good plan so we where off at just over 6 am.............way too early to wake up on sunday, let alone start driving.

http://www.clublexus.com/gallery/data/500/1269Veelstevroeg.jpg

In Holland we have very strickt speeding rules but in Germany you can let the car go a little faster.
We made some good time trough Germany!!!

http://www.clublexus.com/gallery/data/500/1269Speeding.jpg

There was still a little left when I had it a little over 240.
Not bad for a GS300 huh?

BTW, that is KM/H, not MP/H

When we arived at the little town in Germany we wen't up the hill and found us a good spot too see the action.
It was damn cold though!!

http://www.clublexus.com/gallery/data/500/1269At_the_track.jpg

We where only about 30 meters away from the track and the sound these purpose build cars produced was still deafening.

Here is another pic trackside.

http://www.clublexus.com/gallery/data/500/1269At_the_track1.jpg

These cars look like mini Le Mans cars

There was also a catagory with Seat (VW sister company, based on the GOLF 4) Leon race cars.
These things where pretty fast.

http://www.clublexus.com/gallery/data/500/1269SeatCupCar.jpg

Look at the negative camber on the front wheels!!

Most of the cars competing where in a "Yountimer" class, meaning they are all from mostly the 70's and 80's.
Don't let the old age make you think they are slow.
These cars had 1300/1600/1800cc engines that rev to 11000 rpm.

This is a Golf 1 that was in competition.

http://www.clublexus.com/gallery/data/500/1269Golf1.jpg

This was the fasted "yountimer" at the straight we where sitting.
This was faster then a porsche GT3 RS!!!

http://www.clublexus.com/gallery/data/500/1269Old_School_Escort.jpg

A lot of the top cars in the 2000cc youngtimer class where these Opels.

http://www.clublexus.com/gallery/data/500/1269Opel_C_kadet.jpg

This one was pretty much stock, bodywise.

Most of those Opels and other cars that where in competition look more like this with crazy wings and stuff.

http://www.clublexus.com/gallery/data/500/1269Opel_C_kadet1.jpg

Most of the top guys in each class had a lot of aerodynamic stuff on their cars.
Look at the diffusor and wings on this on.
All to keep the car on the road and make the cornering as fast as possible.

http://www.clublexus.com/gallery/data/500/1269Opel_C_kadet_aero.jpg

This is a VW Polo (the golf's smaller brother) waiting for the start.
They try to fit as wide a slick as possible on these cars, look at the fender flares!!!

http://www.clublexus.com/gallery/data/500/1269Polo_before_start.jpg

This one was just OTT, look at the body mods, it even had a CF diffusor underneath the car.

http://www.clublexus.com/gallery/data/500/1269Polo.jpg

There where also other classes with higher powered cars like this pretty rare Porsche 993 RS 3.8.
These cars where slower then the top Youngtimer cars.

http://www.clublexus.com/gallery/data/500/1269993_RS.jpg

Competing with the 993 was this brand spanking new 996 GT3 RS.
Imagine crashing that. There is not really room for errors on these kind of tracks. If you make a mistake, you crash the car.

http://www.clublexus.com/gallery/data/500/1269GT3_RS.jpg

Another pic of the GT3 RS.
It sounds really sweet!!

http://www.clublexus.com/gallery/data/500/1269GT3_RS1.jpg

The really fast guys use ex F3 and F3000 cars.
With the F3000 cars you have cars weighing 580 kg (around a 1000 pounds) with 500 hp.

Look at the rear wing of this one, ultra high downforce and it still managed to get upto 5th gear on the short straight

http://www.clublexus.com/gallery/data/500/1269F3000.jpg

There was another class with ex-DTM and ex- WRC cars but I couldn't get any good pics from those.

After we went to the hillclimb we went to meet up with another CL member.
BlownIS200 had had his IS200 fitted with a 2JZ-GTE as you can read here (http://www.clublexus.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=79220) .
The car is allmost finished so he took us for a testdrive. The car was limited to 4000 rpm and .5 bar boost but is was allready FAST!!!

More info and pics can be found here (http://www.lexusownersclub.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=4397&hl=monster) .

Looks like some serious fun you had..
Ahh...I envy you so much.... I wanna move to Europe too!:p

next time i'm around europe richie, you're taking me to one of those things! :p

Originally posted by XeroK00L
Looks like some serious fun you had..
Ahh...I envy you so much.... I wanna move to Europe too!:p

Hahahaha, I had man!!
It was a nice day, 21 hours and 1250km's.
The weather sucks over here though, it won't be as good as Cali!!

Originally posted by adidas1532
next time i'm around europe richie, you're taking me to one of those things! :p

Just let me know man, hope we can work something out then!!:cool:

nice pictures. you were driving too slow. try to drive faster next time. hehehe just kidding:thumbup:

Originally posted by DC52E55
nice pictures. you were driving too slow. try to drive faster next time. hehehe just kidding:thumbup:

Hahahah, I will, I want to know where the limiter is (if there is one on the GS300), LOL.

that's awesome! I would love to attend one of those events....

Originally posted by Richie
My friend asked me to go with him to a hillclimb in Germany last sunday.

And here I though you were going Volksmarching in the Hills of Germany! :egads:
Nice pics though, and the speed............:eek2: 144 mph.:thumbup:

Originally posted by EmeraldLexuSC3
And here I though you were going Volkmarching in the Hills of Germany! :egads:
Nice pics though, and the speed............:eek2: 144 mph.:thumbup:

Hahahah, yeah it looked like it, was nice and muddy too!!
It was a little higher then 144 ;)

Here is how the day ended!!
In a traffic jam :(

http://www.clublexus.com/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=997316

Originally posted by Richie
Here is how the day ended!!
In a traffic jam :(

after going as fast as you were earlier that day, it had to be painful to be traveling that slow! :D

Originally posted by adidas1532
after going as fast as you were earlier that day, it had to be painful to be traveling that slow! :D

That was exactly how I felt. It lasted for an hour!!:(