[Bill Jennings]

I have watched motorsport live and on TV all my life. I only watch it on TV when I cannot get to the track.
I grew up just a few miles from Brands Hatch and used to sneak through the fence to get in.
Used to watch club racing, BOAC 1000 km endurance, drag racing and GP's. Pretty much anything really!
In recent years I borrow my old SC that I owned when I lived in the Uk go down to the Nurburgring, drive a few laps then watch the 24 hours there then have a few more laps a couple of days later before dropping the car off then flying back to Oz.
This year went to the Bathurst 12 hours after dicovering it on TV the year before. It was much better live but I really did not appreciate how difficult this track is until I drove it the next day. It is usually a public road when not a track with a 60 km speed limit but there were no cops the day after so I was able to give it some gas in my C3 in between track personnel packing up from the day before.
Best experience ever was going to Le Mans the past two years watching Porsche catch up then win all the trophies.
The experience of visting the Porsche pits, the exotic classic car show before the race, and the thrill of visting mulsanne, arnage and the dunlop curves throught the 24 hours beats the TV coverage hands down in my opinion.
The emotion I experienced during the lap of victory I will never forget.
Another highlight was bumming a ride in an impact bumper 911to Le Mans the past two years and meeting othe porsche nuts to share the experience with.
Cheers
Bill