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I received an invitation to join the BMW hospitality suite at Brands Hatch for the races from yesterday. Very good view from next to the straight, and for those interested, right next to Vicky Butler-Henderson who was rather, uh, pregnant (her brother was racing in the Abarth 500 race).

The day had some interesting races, it started off with some Mercedes AMG driving around just for the sake of it (what a job to have) and the gurgle of those engines / exhausts was just lovely ...

There was a Formula 3 race, a Formula Ford, Lotus Elise, Abarth 500, Porsche GT and the DTMs.

Earplugs for the DTM were required, so had to buy those as the noise was horrendous. There were only Mercedes and Audi in the race, and David Coulthard was racing as well. The Audis sounded excellent, some Mercedes sounded nice and some sounded awful (like a F1 whine pitch). The cars were fast, very fast. This made the race of the Lotus Elises look like a slow motion event and the Abarth 500 looked like they were hardly moving

Fun events of the day: Lotus, they were hilarious. From the 15 or so cars that started, 7 did not finish the race as they either broke down or ended up in the gravel. The Fiats looked also rather interesting on track as they would sometimes go sideways around the bend. The Porsches were extremely composed and the DTM cars were just brutal. The formula 3 and formula Ford was a little bland for my liking.

All in all a good day out, compliments of a dealer.

One thing to say

[quote=""pvr""]Fun events of the day: Lotus, they were hilarious. From the 15 or so cars that started, 7 did not finish the race as they either broke down or ended up in the gravel. [/quote]

Thats good going for them

Yes, I know .... only took a couple, let me check my camera later. Very difficult to take pictures as there is that massive fence in front you you.

[quote=""Chompers""]One thing to say

[quote=""pvr""]Fun events of the day: Lotus, they were hilarious. From the 15 or so cars that started, 7 did not finish the race as they either broke down or ended up in the gravel. [/quote]

Thats good going for them [/quote]

+1 you know the rules pvr...............or at least you should do piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiics please!!!

Ah - uh, yes - soon

This was the winning car (not my picture but at least it satisfies the requirement of pictures in the thread )

Hosptaility ? - I got a nice coffee at Chandlers last week.

You've obviously been making subtle forthcoming X3 noises.

Nope, this was from a Croydon dealer. Never been there, never spoken to them.

Friend of mine has an M3 from there, and he got the invite and asked for more tickets to include me.

Not what you know, who you know

We gathered that - there's no way you can take a pic that good!

I am watching you ....

Love you

I have a retort for the VanDamme cables - something along the lines of 'same as your film collection' but I won't use that one, oh I have.

[quote=""Sanj""]We gathered that - there's no way you can take a pic that good![/quote]

Was thinking the very same, what a great pic, PVR never took that

Anyway PVR were are your efforts?

On my camera

Still no pics

[quote=""pvr""]This was the winning car (not my picture but at least it satisfies the requirement of pictures in the thread )

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Awesome pic man. Give Minda some tips