Lunacy Pictures

Here are the pics by the Knockhill photographer... first is learning the track in the SEAT, second is the legend itself and the third is me having just come into the pits after the first session, a bit dazed but grinning like the proverbial Chesire Cat!

Entry 1 - Mad ramblings of someone with more ambition than sense...

I set this Blog up a couple of weeks back but wasn't quite sure when to actually start it as all I knew was that I'd like to try and cross the barrier between spectator and competitor, but I've kind of dithered over the idea for a year or two. After having a go at the "Legends Unlimited" driving experience at Knockhill on Friday, however... Actually driving a proper racing machine on a National class racing circuit is an incredible buzz - especially finding out about the fact I was probably doing about 112-114 mph at the end of the main straight... the track is amazing fun (though all the blind corners take a bit of bravery to fly through) and I really felt I was getting the hang of it towards the end, despite this being my first time around the track and my previous experience in a racing machine being a semi-endurance karting race last year in which I did "not so well".

Part of the experience package was to run a couple of laps of the track in a Seat Ibiza with an instructor - just so happened that mine was multiple Renault Clio Cup and Seat Cupra Championship race winner Jonathan Adam...! Thankfully my driving report was a good one (not great, but good at least!) and the interesting thing I noticed was that my report indicates the things I most need to watch are my braking and my gear changes, especially the downshifts - which is the biggest issue I have in online sim racing when I've raced road circuits in the past - weird how it all comes together.

Anyway, all of this has confirmed I definitely want to go racing, cash willing - time to start being a proper Scotsman and hoard all my pennies! Got some pics taken of me in the car but they wont be available for a couple of days, so in the meantime I've attached a pic of the very car I drove in the hands of it's usual driver at SMRC race meetings - Carol Brown.