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Each year Jemmac offer staff the chance to participate in an Activity Day as a thank you for all their hard work throughout the year. The days are organised by the staff, but paid for by the company to encourage people to participate in something ‘special’ with their work colleagues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For 2011 Jemmac staff paid a visit to the superb PalmerSport facility at Bedford Autodrome for some high adrenalin motorsport action. PalmerSport deliver the UK’s premier corporate driving event with participants driving seven very different high performance cars in one day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Matt, Chris and James W on the way to the first event<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Add in four separate circuits, an off road course, coaching from ARDS qualified instructors (many of whom are successful racing drivers themselves), breakfast, lunch and afternoon tea and you have the recipe for a great day out!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On previous visits the Jemmac team have always returned with at least one trophy for an outright event win – so no pressure then…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The day started with a full cooked breakfast with the Jemmac team showing little concern about carrying extra weight during the days activities. A quick video briefing from the BBC F1 commentary team of Martin Brundle and Jake Humphries set the scene with some extra guidance from the event organisers and then it was off to the first event in the ‘Team Lauda’ bus – all the teams being named after F1 World Champions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First up were BMW M3 GTP’s running a specification specific to PalmerSport that involved stripping out the interiors, fitting a full roll cage, converting the cars to LPG (a feature of all the cars on the day), some tweaks to the suspension and the fitment of a full titanium race exhaust system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was also noticeable that first things in the morning all the tyres had release agent on them having been freshly fitted for the day – clearly they expect participants to make full use of the cars performance!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Event one – BMW M3 GTP’s<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Next up were the Porsche 911 JP3’s and the Renault Clio Cup cars. These were run on the same circuit with most people posting faster times in the little Renault’s than the Porsches! The two James’ traded fastest lap times in the Clio egged on by the same instructor called… James!<\/p>\n\n\n\n