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Driving a pre-hypercar icon on a long-forgotten historic racetrack

As their debut English-language episode, WBT Garage took a Spyker C8 Aileron to the historic Catalonian circuit of Terramar, notorious for its old-world motorsport atmosphere entirely disconnected from modern times. It is the perfect setting for a car designed less by algorithms than by obsession.

 

Terramar lies south of Barcelona, near the coastal town of Sitges. Inaugurated in 1923, the track hosted that year's Spanish Grand Prix. Even then, its 60-degree banking inspired dread among drivers, and as history would prove, Grand Prix racing never returned. By the 1930s all activity had ceased, the circuit deemed far too dangerous. From that point on, it lay dormant and forgotten: a lost place, today known as "the Ghost of Motorsport."

It was not until 2009 that the track, its concrete surface only partially broken up, was restored to a condition that once again permitted commercial shoots and demonstration runs by the likes of Audi and Seat. For WBT Garage, the morbid charm of this extraordinary location provided the ideal backdrop for a spectacular film featuring the only Spyker C8 Aileron ever finished in white. A car that in many ways embodied a pre-hypercar era, defined by hand-built craftsmanship, the finest materials, a thoroughly mechanical DNA, and design details that pay homage to the aviation heritage of the iconic Dutch marque.

 

The emotionally charged film, the first from WBT Garage, captivates through aerial drone footage, in-car and car-to-car sequences, and studio passages in which Volodymyr Nosov, founder and creative force behind WBT Garage, entrepreneur and avid collector, elaborates on the car's design philosophy. Viewers also gain a vivid sense of Spyker's turbulent history: a brand that began with horse-drawn carriages for the Dutch Royal Family, was building automobiles even before Henry Ford, transitioned into aircraft production, then returned to cars, competing at Le Mans and in Formula One during the Noughties, yet endured more than one insolvency along the way.

Now, thanks to WBT Garage, this rare Dutch gem is back in the spotlight. Not as a conventional review, but as an artifact from a forgotten automotive philosophy and as the launchpad for WBT Garage itself, with this first episode intended to set the tone for those that follow. The series will focus on collector culture, hidden garages, rare automotive icons, and vehicles that embody engineering and design philosophies on the verge of disappearing. The cars on the team's shortlist need not be exceptionally expensive or fast. They simply need to feel human: built in limited numbers, far removed from a digital automotive world increasingly defined by uniformity.

Even now, nearly two decades after its debut at the 2008 Geneva Motor Show, the Spyker resembles nothing else on modern roads. It was the producers' deliberate intention to visualise that contrast by leaning deeply into atmosphere, sound, movement, and the emotional resonance of such a rare collector's machine at full speed on such a dramatic circuit.

About WBT Garage

WBT Garage is the international expansion of an already well-established Ukrainian automotive media project, with millions of views across its original platforms. Founded by entrepreneur and collector Volodymyr Nosov, it occupies a distinct position within the automotive media landscape. The focus is not on news cycles or rapid-fire reviews, but on rare collector vehicles, hidden automotive culture, private collections, handcrafted engineering, and the emotional psychology behind why certain people become obsessed with rare machines.

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