The DTM weekend at Brands is my second favourite race weekend of the year. The favourite being the Lotus 100km race in November. This year was no exception and the changeable weather made teh racing, which for the big DTM cars can be a bit of parade around around teh small Indy circuit at Brands, very exciting. 
I spent Friday on the pit lane entry - which on a big weekend with TV cameras and a premier race is hectic. The pit lane gets busy with not only people, but complex portable technological huts that sit on the pit wall, and the DTM cars being pushed around from garage to scrutineering and back even when other racing is going on.
Some big names were around, and chances are high of bumping into one or two of them rushing from one thing to another. Some of the names that you may have heard of outside of the DTMs (which in themselves include David Coulthard, Ralph Schumacher and Gary Paffet), were Johnny Herbert, Mark Blundell, Tiff Needell and Jody Scheckter.
Supporting races included the Siroccos with the legends class included, the lotuses which as always, I adore, and the Eurocar racers. One orange Eurocar reminded me a lot of an 80s TV show for some reason...
Oh yeah, and on Sunday they made a couple of us dress up in bright yellow - *so* not my colour!
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