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BMW Greece has released this controversial ad… it certainly caught my attention.

For the last trackday of the year I joined the Lotus boys at Kirkistown Circuit for a full days of fun. With me was a friend doing his first trackday, in a E38 740 no less, crazy I know. Was an early start for the long drive from Dublin to the North, to our supriseit was dry and was looking like we might get away with a full dry day, the cold was another matter.

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Trackdays seem to be ever harder to organise, the recession has really shifted peoples priorities and indulging in ones automotive obsession has been put on a back burner in place of more sensible activities like feeding a family and paying a mortgage. Even so, we still managed to convince 35 or so people to come join us for the second trackday Rob and myself have organised.

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Due to lack of trackdays available Rob(he owns the silver M3 pictured) and myself decided to take it upon ourselves to organise one for the bmw-driver.net forum and invite along our friends from Octane.ie along as well. Numbers were low but we had enough to break even, that was good enough for us as it meant another day to get out cars out for a good run.

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For the few that were able to release themselves from their lovers grasp a trip to Mondello was made on this day usually reserved for candlelit dinners and flowers. The previous weeks have been cold and snow ridden but this day was mild and the rain held off. The last trackday was very wet and I ran out of brakes halfway through, this time with new pads and a dry track I could push the car harder and have a bit more fun.

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