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Title: Excellent day at Brands Hatch
Post by: bob.dent on 07 May 2008, 17:17:20

Was at Brands on Sunday to see the A1 Grand Prix and I have to say what a superb and well organised event this is. Arrived at the circuit at 7.30am without any queues and got ourselves a prime spot right on the start/finish line opposite the podium. There were various types of racing taking place all day but the highlights were obviously the A1 sprint and feature races. God these cars are good - not far off F1 pace and definitley as loud. Team GB's driver Robbie Kerr done an excellent job winning the sprint race and 2nd in the feature race narrowly being pipped by Team India's car driven by ex-F1 driver Karthikeyan. :y :y

The other highlight of the day was the Britcar race which features GT3 cars and a mix of highly modified saloons. One of these was Wessex  Motorsport's V8 Star Omega (Alex Watson who runs the car is a member on here). OMG is this car quick!! :o It wiped the floor with most of the other runners including Mosler's, V10 Dodge Vipers, V8 Marcos's, modified BMW M3's and GT3 series cars. It has a 645BHP Corvette LS 7 power plant and looks absolutely stunning. After starting the race in 32nd place on the grid it powered its way to the lead after several laps and held it for about 20 laps. It eventually lost out to 2 Mosler's after the 2nd round of pitstops and finished 3rd.

Anyway, I'll post up a few pics in the gallery when I have a bit more time.

Title: Re: Excellent day at Brands Hatch
Post by: Dazzler on 07 May 2008, 17:20:23

Sounds a superb day Bob, can't wait to see the pics mate :y

Title: Re: Excellent day at Brands Hatch
Post by: Entwood on 07 May 2008, 17:36:24

I'm not jealous .... honest .. no .. I'm not .. :(

Nice one mate .. glad you had a good day   :y :y :y

Title: Re: Excellent day at Brands Hatch
Post by: bob.dent on 09 May 2008, 11:28:01

Some pics of the Wessex Motorsport V8 Star Omega now in the gallery. Will post up a few more from the A1 GP later. :y

Title: Re: Excellent day at Brands Hatch
Post by: supermop on 09 May 2008, 12:53:07

I'd better upload them for you :)

edit: Here are my pics from the day...
 clicky (http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=36824&id=510036009)

I would also like to say 2 words about the day...

AWE

SOME

Title: Re: Excellent day at Brands Hatch
Post by: bob.dent on 09 May 2008, 13:09:10

Quote

I'd better upload them for you :)

edit: Here are my pics from the day...
 clicky (http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=36824&id=510036009)

I would also like to say 2 words about the day...

AWE

SOME

Ah, but these are your camera phone shots, not mine. I need you to upload mine from your PC to photobucket as I accidentally deleted them off my camera after uploading them to your PC. :-[

Title: Re: Excellent day at Brands Hatch
Post by: supermop on 09 May 2008, 13:25:16

I did say they were mine.

Will upload when I'm back from work.