June 2006 saw us enjoy a wonderful weekend at Silverstone for the British Grand Prix.  It was about time we went to see the race live and right in front of us.  Watching all this testing had really got us going for this!!!

It was an incredibly hot weekend packed full of racing.  Not only was there the Grand prix to see but other racing too from the GP 2 series and the Porsches.  It was an amazing experience, a complete adrenaline rush and we got to meet some famous people and chatted with our favourite drivers too getting great pictures and more autographs.

The Porsche race - a real buzz - lots of action

Lewis Hamilton races in the GP 2 series - soon he will be a big name in 

Formula 1 - he went on to win this race and the GP2 championship.

Dave with the F1 safety car

Karen with Jenson Button's Dad (Jenson of course her favourite driver)

Us at the F1 paddock with our special passes

A great view of the track for us from the hill at the BRDC farm where we had passes for

Jenson Button moving his way up the field before sadly going out of the race

Fernando Alonso being hunted down by Kim Raikkonnen and Michael Schumacher.  Fernando Alsonso went on to win the British Grand Prix

I even managed to get Jenson to sign a "straw porn" picture to all us girlies on his website!!!!!!! This has pride of place in my collection too!