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So as you might have gathered I ventured ooop'North to the Birmingham NEC on Sunday for the Autosport International Show 2012. I've been before but not for a couple of years and thought it would be a nice day trip for me & my girlfriend. My alarm going off at 5.30am was tough for a Sunday morning, but we both dragged ourselves out of bed and set off in my girlfriend's trusty Suzuki Alto, which apparently uses no fuel ever!

Arriving at just past 9am, our run was good and we managed to get in with little queue's and wandered around with not many other people for the first hour or so. Getting decent shots at the Autosport Show has proven difficult for me in the past due to their stupidly bright red carpet, often being brighter than the car that sits on it!

This Mercedes DTM car really stood out for me and I was really pleased with how these couple of photos come out. You'll notice the colour's being spot on thanks to the floor not being that bright red!

At 1pm we headed in the direction of the Live Action Arena since our viewing was 2pm. Whilst queuing we got a good look at the other activities on display - one which caught my attention was this Caterham drifting experience, basically where you'll pay a £10er to sit in a Caterham for 5 mins whilst the spin them around some cone's. It looked a laugh if you're the driver, but as drifting goes it was pretty pathetic. Then again, you can't expect too much with the limited space they had to play with.

And by just before 2pm we got ourselves into the Live Action Arena. Our seats were in a pretty sweet spot, up in the corner with very little people to obstruct our view.

Was incredible watching all the people flooding in and down the stairs behind us - there must of been well over a 1000 people I'd say? They were pouring in like this for over 20 mins!

The action continued for just over an hour and whilst it was good with the room they had, it wasn't as good as what I was hoping or from what I remember from when I've been to this show in the past. The MX Freestyle bikes were good, doing some crazy jumps & stunts, and of course the Japspeed drifting put on a good display, albeit it only lasted about 2 minutes.

By the time we got out we were both pretty tired, so another hour of walking & looking around saw the day off nicely, and we decided to head.

Both me and my girlfriend fell in love with this low and race prepped R35 GTR.

Not forgetting of course, the infamous (famous?) Autosport Show girls. So on that note, I'll leave you with some of the hotties from the day.

Thanks for reading and I hope you've enjoyed my photos. I've taken a handful more which I haven't posted on here, so please head to the Forum to have a look :)