GOODWOOD FESTIVAL OF SPEED, 2019
When we’re after delicious food and delightful landscape, we know where to go and set our compass for Italy. For technological perfection and efficacy our Western neighbour is the place to go. France for us is synonymous with endless loops of magnificent roads with charming châteaux interspersed along them. But in our opinion nobody else seems to understand the motoring as profoundly as the British. They prove that time after time with words, images, passionate debates and chats. And this is what Goodwood Festival of Speed is all about. Its perfect organisation, rather than dictated by unyielding procedures or demands of sponsors, comes from tactful people full of experience, class and skilful spontaneity – people including the organiser and the public. We are immensely impressed by everything we have experienced on the lawns of Goodwood Estate, so we are quite univocal about our intent to be back next year.
2019-07-15
GalleryMORE THAN LIFE AT STAKE
Gentlemen, start your madness! Since the dawn of car races the world hasn’t seen another run so fiercely contested, so full of sheer danger, putting competitors’ courage and humanity to such a cruel test. The machinery running here has to demonstrate incredible endurance and their preparation requires huge amounts of time, know-how and money. No wonder the sponsors involved in financial support for the runners rank among Poland’s leading capital groups (see the livery / logo on the leading car’s bonnet). In a word: welcome to Supercar Club Poland Wreck Race. This 2019 edition was especially successful in the sense nobody was hurt. To win here is more than survive and champagne on the podium never before tasted so good.
2019-06-28
GallerySCC’s EIGHT ANNIVERSARY FEAST
Lost in translation is exactly what we’d face trying to explain how we spent the Club’s eight anniversary dinner and where. And yet, let’s try anyway. Imagine a time capsule restaurant in downtown Warsaw remembering pale old days well behind the Iron Curtain. Late 50’s, 60’ and 70’s back in the Communist Block, all austerity, deficit and inefficiency, but pumped up with outrageous propaganda by the party in rule. And partying we did, boy, for what else remained but to party and at least have some fun – after all it was for a reason that Poland was called the most cheerful barrack in the camp… Now to the point: not all was that bad. Lotos Restaurant in Warsaw retained the air of the past with some unspoilt old day charm and great, if simple, food. Equipped with posters, slogans and outfits to bring back the past for a while, we had a jolly good time there, delicious herring, tartar and vodka. All in fortunate awareness that next day we’d wake up with a little hangover perhaps, but also with our cars, roads, fuels and prospects rather than bumpy streets, rationed gas and shoddy Eastern-block two-stroke Trabants.
2019-06-14
GalleryFAST AND… EFFECTIVE
Winners are those past the finish line. Trivial? It might seem so but then again to know and to truly understand are often two different things. In particular those at early stages of their record in motorsport tend to strive for pure speed, to give it all to raise the speed a few mph, forgetting the need of humility, the laws of physics and their own limited skills. To achieve improvement, during our most recent track workshop we focused upon steady rhythm, sustainable speeds and finding a compromise between seconds shaved from the clock and solid, repeatable lap times. One strength of a crafty driver – like of an agent with a licence to kill – is to pull the trigger infallibly, but also to know where and when just not to.
2019-05-27
HEART AND MIND
With car keys put aside just for a while, we ventured to a place where our thought ran back to the autumn 2017. Do you remember? Our Gran Turismo Michelin, themed journey crossing Germany, Italy and Austria, the route outlined to thread restaurants that boasted the world’s most famous cuisine-related stars. One of such places can be found in Poland – in Warsaw, recently relocated to a neighbourhood of the Three Crosses Square. To be more specific, over a dozen of us paid a visit to Wojciech Modest Amaro’s culinary workshop. The man hardly needs introduction – instead, we should expressly appreciate his efforts to redefine Polish cuisine along most innovative and ingenious paths. This is the place where – to quote the Chef – nature meets science and the unique taste of dishes comes from exploration of biodiversity and the combination of forgotten products and ingredients. Just a dose of marketing, perhaps? Definitely not: a dozen or so Moments, as Amaro calls his dishes, left us no place for doubt: this is true love for the kitchen supported by talent and great, inventive mind, delivered and demonstrated in every single dish.
2019-05-02