Had a great days racing at brands hatch and i was knackered as the day started at 9am and didn’t finish tell 6pm which was filled with tyre smoke the odd crash a few beers and a belly of burgers

Will got there about 9am which was just in time for the free practice of the Ginetta Junior Championship which is pretty mad as the drivers are only about 12/14 years old and there were going for it big time which was then followed by races from Formula Renault, Seat Cupra, Renault Clio and Porsche Carreras which have about two races over the day

Brands hatch is a great place to see motor racing as even if you don’t buy tickets in the stands which are placed round the track you get good views as you can just stand round the fencing and get a lung full of tyre smoke which will save on buying cigs for the day

Never been to Brands Hatch before but some tickets came up so had to go as wanted to see the last round of the touring car championship which had which had fabrizio giovanardi and jason plato locked in the battle to see who would pick up the crown this year

Jason Plato and Darren Turner come out in the Seat Leon TDi

Rest of the cars come out for the first race of the day from Honda Civic’s, Integra’s, BMW’s plus many more makes and models also a Chevrolet Lacetti but there was no Stig to be seen

Last few checks on the grid before the off

Paul Hogarth No 50 silver porsche which raced in the Carrera Cup

Tommy Dreelan No 56 Porsche Carrera

Photo of me with the Seat Leon TDi which was the last outing for the SEAT Sport UK car in the Touring Car Championship which is a shame a it was a great car showing what a diesel engine could do on the track

Also during the day you can walk down to the paddocks to see the teams working on the cars like the Alpine Racing Team working on there two Formula Renaults driven by Ross Worswick and Dean Stoneman

Adam Christodoulou Formula Renault being worked on in the paddock and at the end of the day he was crowned the 2008 Formula Renault Champion

During the day we had a fly past of a Spitfire

Formula Renaults lined up on the grid

Helicopter taking a driver home

So had a great day and hope to go back next year, also all photos were taken with a Fuji Finepix F40fd

Just added a panoramic picture of Brands Hatch which i did using Microsoft ICE which came out pretty good and shows the whole race track

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