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23. october 2006 As a very weel prepared finale for a busy trackday season, Morten Stjernholm of ITR and trackdayklub.dk fame gathered a full paddock of hopeful racer-wannabes in the early morning rain of an october manday. ITR participants: Gert Sterner - Alfa Romeo 145 Q (1996) |
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| The driver's briefing only just held the mob while a camera crew filmed the early morning meeting | Morten Stjernholm explains the do's and dont's of the very fast track | ||||
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| Anton Norup ready at the blue Punto in the crammed paddock area | Norup in action in the follow-through double left after the long main stretch | ||||
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| Somebody brought a flatbed transporter; very foresightful and a good thing to have at a trackday | Everybody looking forward to an exciting day | ||||
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| Many of the drivers brought some quite expensive machinery | Morten Stjernholm discusses a technical detail with a Maserati-driver | ||||
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| Gert Sterners 145 Q was somewhat ecclipsed by a german who brought a 145 GTA | The 145 GTA is an ordinary 145 Q with a few important tweaks to the suspension and brakes | ||||
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| The 145 GTA indeed has a 3.2-litre GTA engine shoohorned into the front | The german Alfa Romeo enthusiast diving into the pit complex with Gert Sterner's DV-cam mounted | ||||
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| A late series Mazda RX7 is a car you don¨t see every day | Alfa Romeo 147 in a very dynamic turn just before the power is applied | ||||
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| Alfa Romeo 155 is a very agile and compact machine | Alfa Romeo 156 GTA with all the external tweaks and streaks | ||||
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| A sleek Alfa Romeo 156 braking into the horseshoe at the pit-exit | A wonderful Maserati biturbo, must be quite a handful in the rain | ||||
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| A BMW M5 tiptoes round the double-left T1 | A Toyota Corolla RWD in the same spot using another technique altogether | ||||
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| A nice white Coupé Fiat on export reg plates | Morten Stjernholm in a wonderful drift through the pit complex in the superb Evo 8 | ||||
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| Relaxing inside the paddock building | Mazda MX-5a always turn up in large numbers because they are exciting track cars | ||||
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| Morten Stjernholm's pal Torben drives this Yokohama Cup Alfa Romeo 156 | Awesome performance even in the rain | ||||
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| A car-load of shaken newbies gets a purposeful demonstration run by Morten stjerholm | Another passenger drops into the Evo 8 | ||||
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| Tell-tale of Anton Norup's driving on the edge in the Punto S which is not so powerful but very nimble | The track-team executed the venue with usual bravour | ||||
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| The serious end of a Maserati Ghible Cup | And this is what it looks like from the outside | ||||
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| Lancia Delta Integrales never quite live up to the performance of Imprezas and Evos | ... but they look and sound good, and people love them for their mystique | ||||
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| A brutal Volkswagen Golf R32 | Elegant power pack; an alfa Romeo GT 3.2 | ||||
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| Morten Stjernholm a Chief Trackday Officer mingles in the pitlane | A very fast Alfa Romeo Sud was able to outpace most of the moderns | ||||
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| Lunch break | Sausages galore | ||||
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| The awesome Subaru Imprexza of Lars Kruuse as always full of scared passengers | Morten Stjernholm and Lars Kruuse briefing the crowd | ||||