Anyone been over for their 2 day trip? Just wondered how it works with a carnet when travelling yourself with bike and gear. Looks like a garage is extra money but I don’t mind setting up in the car park with the genny. Could be a reasonably cheap trip away for a weekend.
if it's a road bike registered in your name, no need for a carnet. Track/race bike, with documents in your name no carnet, as long as you aren't racing it. No log book, then a carnet is required, though in reality most people with race bikes aren't bothering, as long as you aren't transporting it in a race team liveried van you should be ok.
I did it years ago so no knowledge of the carnet stuff. Spa’s great though and worth the effort of getting there. Is it a NL event that they run off the back of a Belgian organiser? If it is I seem to remember the briefing was ‘different’.
Had mixed reviews on carnet. I know a lot of people who never bother and have been fine.. but, it might be your lucky (unlucky) day. Be wary of noise, Spa is pretty bad for noise nazi’s
They may be strict on noise but despite the 650cc minimum cc limit they let me do a session on this, scared the bloody life out of myself, having to change down going up eau rouge was nice.
Plates plus V5s and I had no trouble. Carnet is for commercial activities so was a bit of a distraction by some over enthusiastic types. Hence you need one if NL are doing the shipping.
the noise metre is on the red marshal box on the right pit wall as you come out of bus stop chicane. Normally if there is a baffle fitted or stock pipes they often skip testing you. but yes can be a pain, the tracks worth it though.
A lot of UK tracks are now 98db static/102db drive by with fewer and fewer “noisy days” available. Prior to the launch of the Panigale V4, some UK tracks made allowances for the Panigale 1199 and 1299 fitted with a standard exhaust. Not so sure that’s still the same. Andy
I failed a noise test at Castle Combe by riding my RC8 past the entrance and I’d stopped to allow a mouse to leave th circuit after he failed a noise test for farting.
