This year I've seen more of the 24 hours of Le Mans than ever in my life before. Apart from the usual highlights we get on TV over here (read: a few lousy snippets with loads of commercials in between) the whole event was broadcasted live over the internet, the whole 24 hours long, non-stop and without commercial brakes of any kind. I tell you folks, for a motor sport fanatic and Le Mans endurance series fan like me, this 24 hour race is heaven. Absolute bliss. If only one day I could be in one ... Just once ... I could die happily afterwards. Before I was able to relax and start watching it though, it took quite some arranging this time. Cutting work a little short last Saturday and making absolute sure I was at Bas' place in time didn't prevented me from almost missing the start of the race. As it turned out Bas had taken the opportunity to enjoy the nice weather a bit and was cruising on his motorcycle so when I was there, he wasn't ... not even close. Then, in a moment of sheer brilliance mixed with a flair of desperation (oh come on, please bare with me ;-) I decided to get the laptop out, plug in my wireless card and see if any of the neighbors were kind enough to share a bit of internet with me. To my enjoyment this worked and I was able to watch the start of the race live and the first quarter of an hour until Bas arrived and we could continue watching it on TV. Got to love these modern times people, this wireless thing was a Godsend! So now I was able to watch the whole race, from start to finish and that's exactly what I did. Apart from about two hours where I dozed off a little and about twenty minutes in which I drove home, I saw the complete race and I now know absolutely sure that this is by far my most favorite class of racing. Awesome! Fantastic! Magnificent! (you can add your own personal favorite superlatives here ;-) Next to the real life 24 hours race Bas and I held one our own race weekends again. And this one had a serious goal too: train for our own endurance sim race. On the 12th of July we're going to do a full GT race on the famous circuit of Spa, Belgium. This means that we're strapped in our cars for the whole three hours of it and personally, I can't wait. We did a lot of racing and testing this weekend, really a lot, and it's beginning to pay off. Already it's safe to say that we're getting better and more consistent at racing on Spa and we'll be ready for sure when the lights turn green on the 12th.