For almost fifty years, the world of motorsport has been a vital contributor to developing the Comma brand.

 It serves as a platform to demonstrate that Comma products can thrive and survive intense scrutiny in the most unforgiving conditions: conditions such as the PalmerSport corporate driving experience.

PalmerSport is unchallenged as the best high performance driving event in the world. The brainchild of former Formula 1 driver and Chief Executive of the MotorSport Vision (MSV) group, Jonathan Palmer, it operates from a purpose-built layout of four separate circuits totalling over six miles at the Bedford Autodrome.

Collectively, the fleet of over 100 race-prepared PalmerSport cars are driven some two million miles a year on the very edge of their performance envelope, and in an exclusive technical partnership with MSV that dates back to 2007, every PalmerSport vehicle uses Comma brand engine lubricants, coolants, brake fluids and maintenance chemicals.

“These are the self-same Comma products that we supply to our aftermarket distributors and their workshop technician customers,” says Comma brand spokesperson Mike Bewsey. “Two million miles is equivalent to over eighty circumnavigations of planet earth. If you wanted to test any automotive component to its limits, you couldn’t subject it to a more gruelling examination than PalmerSport. What it provides us with is an on-going ‘real world’ laboratory that grossly exaggerates any driving conditions that a motorist could ever expect to encounter on the highway, giving us complete confidence to cover every Comma brand product in our application data with a 100% compatibility guarantee.”

Jonathan Palmer said that since the technical partnership with Comma began, the product quality and technical support given to the MSV team had been outstanding. “Our mechanics and technicians use Comma products every day on every vehicle, because they need to operate to the highest standards,” he said. “Comma was our first choice when looking for a technical partner. We continue to be delighted with our collaboration and the quality and performance of Comma products.”

Mr Bewsey concluded: “As a highly visible platform for publicising the Comma brand and supporting our customers, participation in motorsport will continue to be a proving ground for Comma products. PalmerSport will always be a key element and central to the relevance of that involvement.”