Me and my old man headed down to Silverstone this weekend as I had an introductory rally driving course to take part in on the Saturday morning.

We stayed in a place called Brackley on the Friday night which was pretty cool. Some good pubs round there with decent ale on tap like Spitfire, and as a result I was pretty fucking wasted by the end of the night. Woke up Saturday feeling a little worse for the wear - I remember at breakfast having a hard time eating cereal as I couldn’t hold the spoon steady enough (:

Brackley is damn expensive too. We checked out house prices just out of curiosity and there were places like looked like a council house fetching upwards of £120,000. Nuts.

Anyway, luckily by lunchtime I felt OK so we headed over to Silverstone, my dad was there just to spectate and snap a few photos and so he just hung around while I attended a briefing which detailed basic techniques and stuff. We then headed over to the course itself where we spent about two hours in total.

The cars were Peugeot 290GTi’s in full rally specification, so they were fairly rapid - easily quick enough for newbs :) They took us through all the basics like handbrake turns, controlled slides, rally lines, that kind of thing and then let us spend some time just powering round the course once we had the right idea. Total driving time was only around 40 minutes though which definitely wasn’t enough, but I guess that’s always going to be the case.

We were also graded on our performance, and I have to say that I did pretty fucking ace. 90% overall and a ’star driver’ comment. Skills tbh. All in all it was great fun, and probably the best experience I’ve had out of the motorsport activities I’ve done in the past. Next up, supercars I reckon :)