Stelvio Pass

[BLAKROC]

I've been meaning to post these pics for ages, well nearly a year..

My missus and I did the drive last June while travelling around Europe, thanks to the Top Gear Greatest Driving Road episode for the inspiration. We started the day in Innsbruk, Austria where I picked up a rental Skoda Octavia TDI... i was hoping for an A3 Sportsback...... or a Lambo Gallardo like Clarkson but unfortunately they were out.

We crossed the italian border just after lunch and approached the pass at which point it started raining, which it continued to do so on and off for most of the avo. It was still by far the most spectacular drive I've ever done, something like 48 hairpins I've been told to get up to the 2750m peak.

After some photos, coffee, a delicious hotdog and snow ball fight we headed over the other side of the pass, down into Switzerland and eventually looping back toward Imst, Austria for beeeeeer!

Enjoy..





These guys are nuts..


View from the top










What I wish I'd been driving


Down the other side

[BLAKROC]

Switzerland got hairpins too!


Only used 1/2 a tank in 395km.. TDI wins


Austrian/German beer!


Cheers

[Tim]

Awesome!
My mrs and I are planning a trip to Europe and she keeps on asking me what I want to do or see. So far its Nurburging & Stelvio pass.
(im not sure those were the suggestions she was looking for )

[BLAKROC]

Cheers Tim, yeah i'd have loved to get to the Nurburgring if we'd had more time.. So much to see over there though. Mrs actually really enjoyed the sightseeing while i got to hammer some torque!

[Buller_Scott]

stelvio pass is on the cards for sure...

but does anyone know what the name of that road in romania is called? the one from top gear, where they reckon that its pretty much all the great corners from all the great F1 tracks, linked together?

[rayray086]

but does anyone know what the name of that road in romania is called?

Transfăgărăşan.

Would love to do something like that one day, definitely in my life's to-do list!

[Buller_Scott]

Transfăgărăşan.

Would love to do something like that one day, definitely in my life's to-do list!

thanks man!

i am going to drive that road before i die.

p.s. i was just informed by my kid sister, that i should put it on my ''bucket list". never heard that term before....

[Rocket36]

p.s. i was just informed by my kid sister, that i should put it on my ''bucket list". never heard that term before....

Seriously? Watch this movie! You'll start one for sure!!!

[Buller_Scott]

Seriously? Watch this movie! You'll start one for sure!!!

im gonna watch that movie.

and im soon turning 28. gotta get a bucket list going for sure

[DubSteve]

Hopefully this one on the todo list on the honeymoon next year.........

[GoLfMan]

awesome photos!

This is also on my life's "to-do" list

[GTREA]

Drove the Stelvio Pass in September 2008




The scenery is amazing but the road itself is a bit of a let down really, very monotonus....I mean how many short straights and 180 degree turns can you make before it becomes a chore!

Plus the road is so narrow, with rock walls on either side if you come up behind someone overtaking is a pain, unless they let you past....luckily for us it was very quiet with only a Motorhome and Pajero to contend with.

Drove from Lucerne in Switzerland and stayed in Stevio overnight, snowed when we arrived and got down to about -10 degrees when we left the next morning!!

I much (much) prefered the roads thru the Swiss Alps actually, fast and free flowing, with no walls or barriers to speak of......amazing scenery as well.




Also hired a Golf GTi from Rent-Racecar.de at the Nurburgring, and went for an 'Orientation' lap with 'Theo' from Rent racecar in the Megane R26....which was a wild ride!!!

[BLAKROC]

Nice pics, definitely wasn't that cold when I was there. Was also fairly quiet except for one F250(!?!) that i eventually got past, surprised it got around all the corners?

Swiss roads were quite the drive too.. continental Europe countryside/alps seems pretty awesome in general!