Day 3, Assen TT Circuit with DTM and Lotus Cup Europe plus ferry from Hoek van Holland

Third day of the Pagan tour. We’d noticed a restaurant near the hotel that was called Lotus. Obviously we had to stop there for a photo shot in the morning. The Lotus Cup Europe race was the final one on the schedule for the Sunday. So, we had breakfast at the hotel and only arrived att the track when the DTM cars started with their warm-up. Joel Ericsson had another bad day on the track, his race ended up in a big cloud of smoke. For some reason he stayed on the track for quite a while. That ment that there was a significant amount of clean-up needed afterwards.

When the Lotus Cup Europe race finally got going, there weren’t many people left on. the stands. Since the weather on Sunday was a lot better than the day before, we sat on one of the stands after the main straight. Much better view there compared to the grand stand. In the V6 class, Balogh had got his Evora repaired and won overall as well as the class. In the 211O class, Fournier won and in the Production class, Yates was the winner of the day. The Swedish drivers had mixed results, Robin Nilsson came 5th in V6, Cai Cederholm came 2nd in Production class. Neither Daniel Palma, nor Sven Pettersson, finished on Sundays race.

After the race, we said goodbye to Jakob and Göran who would go back to Sweden again. Then we set off towards Hoek van Holland. It’s a 245 km drive from Assen TT Circuit. Once on the boat, we met up with the other cars that were going to England.