This weekend I was back at one of my favorite circuits in the world Brands Hatch for the British round of the World Touring Car Championship. Along with the WTCC, many of my colleagues from Palmer Sport were on display in the Formula Palmer Audi Championship. On top of all this racing action, BMW was kind enough to bring one of their 2006 Formula 1 machines for a demonstration lap that was driven by their touring car pilot Andy Priaulx.
Please enjoy the weekend from view through my photographs and the video of the F1 car taking paddock hill bend and druids. (turn the volume to maximum for most realistic effect)
Cheers
Michael
v10 Formula 1 engine through Paddock Hill bend! On the cars first (and only) flying lap he was about .5 seconds per lap quicker than the A1GP cars fastest time.
This guy on the right speaking with Jonathan Palmer is actually the stig from Top Gear.
This is one of my colleagues from PalmerSport, he is a South African guy named Armand. He is the master mechanic on our fleet of Clio Cup Racers which is possibly the toughest job in the entire outfit!!
This Seat EuroCup car has one of the coolest paint schemes I have seen!
William Zollo decided his FPA race was getting boring so he parked the car by us and joined us for a coke!
4 comments:
you can't just drop a comment like the guy on the right is the Stig. Tell us more. How do you know he is the Stig? What is his name?
Sure, thats no problem! His name is Perry McCarthy he raced Le Mans as well as F1. You can learn a bit more about him here.
http://www.crash.net/feature_view.asp?cid=26&id=6611
Cheers
MJ
Good info on The Stig here...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stig
You got a picture of Perry McCarthy? That's awesome. You should DEFINITELY check out his book man, it's the most entertaining book about racing I've ever read. This guy had to go through Hell to get a taste of F1. It's also hilarious and it follows the parallel stories of his friends Damon Hill, Johnny Herbert, Mark Blundell etc. who were on also on the journey to F1. I highly recommend it.
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