We're only here for the beer
Classic Alfa Romeo gets a thrashing in the Ardennes

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Team Manager Per Einarsson decided to enter his 1972 Alfa Romeo Bertone GT for the annual Italian Sports Car Meeting at Spa Francorchamps months ago.

And then finally came june; when the ticket could be swapped for an hour of hot-lapping on the famous Grand Prix circuit.

Simon Nielsen and Søren Bærholm had long expressed a strong urge to taste some belgian monastery beer in the original surroundings, so they lept at the chance to take a week in the Ardenne mountains.
The belgian countryside is very beautiful in the summertime; the tranquillity of the rolling hills are in stark contrast to the hills of Spa Francorchamps; one of the most dangerous race tracks in the world; and most exciting at that ...
The Alfa Romeo was accompanied by Simon Nielsen's black Renault Clio, and the pair of them made a safe journey - with a single stop in Aachen for the fitting of a new LSD rear axle on the Alfa.

The Milanese buzzer had just emerged from the workshop of Steffen Madsen a week earlier - now with 155 bhp and a luscious new red leather interior.

Just right for an Italian Sports Car Meeting.