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Free flight to the Barbados Rally Carnival anyone?

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Track Day @ Silverstone PT 2

Well today was an eventful day with me going to silverstone with a frind of mine (Jimmy Brodie) and having a ride in his M3 a Porsche Boxster and an Audi RS4 , it was fucking brillant!

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Those were the cars we took to the track day now here some other cars that we saw around the track.

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Here come the Exotics now wow these things sound great!!

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Some of the Jap army was out in force as well.

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More Exotics

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We were priveliged to actually see the guys testing one of the new Renualt Clio Kit cars.

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Yes you guessed it more exotics, this Carrera GT was the highlight of my day and guess what they were 2 of them!

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Man the amount of GT3’s there was sickening.

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This poor guy stuffed his into the pit wall.

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Well back to the exotics

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*Takes breather*

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Yep more GT3s

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This is my favourite car of the track day , man this thing sounds good!

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Yet again more GT3s well this is a Carrera S
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Now for some random pics

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Here are some videos

Me in the M3 ( video taping) going around silverstone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNA08jRPrF4

Fly bys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcCV4OXwVqg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUN6glwBrWE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZBSIDsC6oo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfJ2ankgEWY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2zQ_mKdJJI
This is the long fly by an look at the speed some of these guys get comming on to the straight!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlutjlapEQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Fz_rfmuol8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHg77cSH7E4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukQ1Pu4lWbs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7FTzy3LTKk
this is a long drive in so u could get to see the cars
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYod4MbBSNM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3n4uB3Naqo

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First shakedown

Not to plan really, Motec wouldn’t talk to laptop so running with a bit of overboost, shaking out some naily connections in the engine bay none of this helped by me comprehensively beaching the car in the gravel in the first session…

Anyways, due to popular demand, here you go, comment yourselves out -

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Brief vid courtesy of gRod - www.youtube.com/v/fEvFfnaG4i8

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Old School Nordschliefe Laps

Found this one today, google video footage of the Nurburgring on an open day for the 70s, interesting viewing!

http://bridgetogantry.com/content/view/63/45/

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CJ4A

Mitsubishi Mirage RS 1997 Mirage RS. Just my own personal dream rally car. I would love to see one of these on the UK rally/ track circuit. Unfortunately they were never exported from Japan new. A few were snatched up after they closed off the Japanese Mirage Cup Race Series and they were mainly sent to Australia and Jamaica for similar series there.

Does anyone know what happened to the one that Ralliart used to own a few years back?

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