GHOST SQUADRON // PORTUGAL 2025
day I
Here I am for the first time in the ghost squadron! We're going to spend 3 days with 27 Koenigseggs (plus a Valkyrie that broke down and an Enzo for your viewing pleasure). The jesko is in the spotlight with some very colourful specs, like the Viola SE30. We also have the delight of seeing the 2 cc850s reunited. A first for me, I was already under the charm of its design and after seeing it in person, I can only love it more! The Medusa is doing us the honour of being in Europe for the first time, a real beauty. Carage is present with their fleet of ‘KNC’, a real unique knowledge from koenigsegg on the art of carbon fibre. There is also one of the two CCXR Special Edition, I have a personal history with this one. What more could you ask for!
day 2
The sun is shining brightly on this second day and the heat is already on - it's April and it's already 30ºC! As always with this type of event, it's a real show to see these machines mixing with the traffic and narrow roads of the Portuguese countryside. For the record, the last stop of the day was a visit to the historic centre of ‘evora’. We followed the white CC850 through the narrow streets of the village, and I've rarely been so scared for someone! We went through streets where there wasn't even a 5cm margin on either side of the car! Well done to the driver, I clearly would never have done what he did!
day 3
On the last day of our journey through Portugal, we head to the hotel car park early in the morning to enjoy the cars before they set off. Today, a thick mist dominates the landscape. As soon as they leave, we (try to) follow them onto the motorway. We won't see them again until they arrive at the hotel in the afternoon. Barely enough time to see them surrounded by young enthusiasts before they set off for the Estoril track, to spend a final moment of accion before being loaded up and heading back home. Night has fallen, it's time for us to get back to our hotel in Lisbon to rest up and head back to Spain the next day.
It was my first ghostsquadron. Intense, to say the least! Still, I fell even more in love with the brand, the colours were on show and that was a delight! I saw again the first Koenigsegg I had ever seen, the CCXR Special Edition, almost 15 years later. Can't wait to next year.
