2012 Britcar 24h at Silverstone (21-23 September)

IRT Trash wrote:go get a coach or train to northampton im sure someone at the track would come get you its only a 15 min drive.

I had a look for trains but I won't be able to get back home, and the coaches take too long because they go via London..

IRT Trash wrote:im watching here http://www.ustream.tv/channel/silverstone-britcar-24hr-race

i'd like to point out that link works for us across the pond. pretty cool getting to see the race

wow, thanks to all that have come down to say Hi and have a go on the rigs words cant express how proud I feel for the team, huge thanks to Rogue Motorsport, Microsoft, Fanatec & Readup. I am heading back down this morning, felt sorry for the guys camping v cold.

Have a ton of pics to post but wow

ITS WORKING

except all i can see is pit lane, then 30 sec of incar views, that keeps freezing then skipping

quite jelous now after seeing some of simons videos :s

it is a great experience italia , hopefully next year they produce a bigger racing grid.

1k of photos to get through.....

Was awesome meeting you guys yesterday and being in the garage last night.
Thanks again to Simon for letting me get close when the Horizon car pitted!

I hope I get accepted at the place I applied for a job! I need money for social life, car, wheel for forza and so I can join u guys next year, only if u want me
But it's be great to meet the faces behind the names and voices

You know, that's a lot of money just to come play Forza with a bunch of racing junkies

My car is bust and none of my friends want to take me to Silverstone I'll do my best to be at the next live event...
Speaking of which, are we still doing a meet up for TORA LeMans?

1. Guy Povey BMW M3 E46

2. Rogue Motorsport MR2

3. Optimum Motorsport Ginetta G50

4. Team Tiger Marcos Mantis

5. Mission Motorsport Nissan 370Z

6. Strata Mosler

7. Light trails on the hangar straight

8. Inside someone's garage.....

9. Racer Industries Holden Astra slow shutter

10. Forza Horizon BMW pits


Full set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ash_gt/sets/72157631604974505/

Home at last, and I think a deep cleanse and sleep is in order. I think my next 24 hours challenge will be 24hours sleep catch-up challenge.

Great shots Ash as per usual. I'll probably be pinching a few for wallpapers etc, and no worries about getting you up close during the pitstop, well worth it with the pictures you got. I can still here your camera noise in my head you took so many! Things in that pitlane got pretty frantic at times to say the least!

Thanks to you, and also ShrinkingSteven who put in stellar stints in the 24 hours challenge (sorry that most of Ashs consisted of safety cars!) I'd love to have known who did more time in the seat, Steven or Adrian. Even two of the MR2 drivers put in a stint to help the team, and on laps we came a virtual 8th place in the end. Not a win, or even class win, but awesome none the less.

Right, I'll put more reviewed stuff up tomorrow, until then... ZZZZzzzzzzz

CMGraphix wrote:
Great shots Ash as per usual. I'll probably be pinching a few for wallpapers etc, and no worries about getting you up close during the pitstop, well worth it with the pictures you got. I can still here your camera noise in my head you took so many! Things in that pitlane got pretty frantic at times to say the least!

Thanks! Pinch as many as you'd like!
Well it's not often I get to get that close to the pits so wasn't quite sure what to do with the shutter speed, so I started of at 1/50th and got down to 1/13th to get a bit of motion, hence the amount of photos Probably could have gone a bit slower but oh well, next time maybe?

Think I still got a fair few laps in around the saftey car periods! Out of interest is the build for the car on someones storefront or something, would be interested to see the differential between the controller and the time I had with the wheel!

What an unbelievable weekend. My thanks go out to Patrick Mortell and the Rogue Motorsport team for giving us such and awesome opportunity and to all out sponsors for giving us their support. My big thanks go to all the TORA staff who worked so hard all day and night over the last 4 days to make the weekend possible. Now onto London to do it all again!

After beer. Lots and lots of beer...

Hey Carrera, can we use some of these for Forza Nation?

Great race, fantastic to meet a lot of you! If you didn't speak to me, I was wandering round with a jacket with 'powerstart batteries' on the back!

Hey, Amazning weekend on track and off it too. You guys put so muchwork into making it happen so well done to all!

Great to meet everyone again and new faces, loads of jokes along the way.
Its going to be hard to pick the best moment as it got better as the race went on.

Good to hear that we came 8th overall wonder if we could have gotten a podium overall if we went to plan be from the start.

Anyways Sleepy time for mee

what was it like in the garage when the MR2 finally got back on track?

GRT 458Italia wrote:what was it like in the garage when the MR2 finally got back on track?

Videos will show soon

awesome, i was hoping of that!! and once i get i job, i'm saving up to do this

Standaman94 wrote:Hey Carrera, can we use some of these for Forza Nation?

yeah sure

@F4H Carrera Great pictures!

@CMGraphix Funny video

Seems that you guys had a great weekend by the pictures and videos.

I especially like the love twist towards the end of this video, the storyline doesn't give it away and it just comes out of nowhere!

cheers Racer.

Nice video, very informative