Eventually the decision was taken quite spontaneously: Taking a little trip in the GT3 up north until all roads end, that would be the North Cape then. Originally I had wanted to do it on a motorbike but for various reasons I ended up with only eleven days to go, which seemed impossible on the bike - especially accounting for the expected weather. Whereas the naive calculation for the GT3 goes like this: Vienna - Northcape - Styria, that should make some 9.000 kilometres that should be easily doable in the car. About 1.200km a day in Germany, some 800-900 in southern Scandinavia and around 650 in the far north.
So on Tuesday, July 13 at 11am I leave with brilliant weather, 30 degress centigrade, sun and all. First stop at my preferred independent Porsche specialist to have the anti-roll-bar settings checked as they are still in Winter mode and thus fully open. Then on via Passau, Nuremberg, Hannover up to Bremen to meet a good friend. The weather remains great, not too much traffic, everything perfectly fine.
Topspeed on the German Autobahn: 279kph. Of course the car has more on offer but there is not enough space on the road plus I want to be easy on the Pirelli P Zero Corsas as they will need to remain alive for some 9.000km more, which is quite a bit for their soft compound. They are my preferred tires for road use on the GT3 as they are on the one hand not as extreme in the wet as the Michelin Cups but offer quite a bit more grip than regular ultra high performance tires and although they lose in sheer speed compared to the Cups on a track, they are huge fun going sideways and doing supid things.
Arriving in Bremen at 21.15pm, everything perfectly fine.
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