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Sunday, 17th of August 2008
It’s 3am on Sunday morning, and as I put my last beer down I think ‘I’m up in 4 hours’. 4 hours later and what felt like I’d just shut my eyes I was up and out the door. I picked up some company and headed east.
After a fairly liberal drive we arrived at Knockhill some 40 minutes later and made our way into the circuit. I had managed to get some VIP hospitality with Seat and a paddock pass from one of my suppliers, so the usual 3 day camel hike from a car park miles away from the circuit wasn’t to be. We parked up, we made a call and paddock passes were delivered to us, this is the way everyone should do these events.
Our host for the day was Blue Chip, who sponsor Carl Breeze in the Seat Cupra Cup, he did not bad in the first race securing 5th place and avoiding any trouble.
The first touring car race came about and one thing I noticed was that when you watch this on TV, you have no appreciation for how loud and obtrusive these cars are. The race was dominated by the mighty TDI car of Jason Plato, he just sailed away on the front straight.
Onto the Porsche Carrera Cup, and again these things sounds awesome, not quite as brash as the touring cars, but the flat 6 engines singing a beautiful song. I’m not sure on the results, should have paid more attention, but a big accident for Charles Bateman meant a lengthy safety car outing and a need for the paramedics which left little time for racing.
All an all a great day out, I didn’t hang about for the final race as I had to be back, and of course it was made all the better with the glorious sights of the vivacious and down right beautiful women that were kicking about, ESPECIALLY the seat PR girls.
Words: Davie Aitchison
Photos: Davie Aitchison
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