I should say I’ve done two of these events with Ben now and he’s seriously impressive. I cannot begin to approach the depth of knowledge he has about British national racing and he does an excellent job (but then we go a way back so I knew that already!)

You seem to be a really good journalist with years ahead of you and with time to become one of the most respected of your field.

You certainly run the best Formula one/Motorsport blog sites i have seen.

I think it is well understood that James Allen is disliked for his commentary but well respected as a journalist, especially if you read comments about him on your site.

I wouldn’t want the same to happen to you Keith.

Race meetings at Thruxton always have me looking nervously at the watch. Due to the extremely limited days of running most meetings are crammed into one day and with the church break racing can start well into the afternoon. However it is worth it because Thruxton is awesome to both drive on and spectate at.

Being lucky enough to get a pit garage at Silverstone is the lap of luxury. Less so is Cadwell Park, where the cars assemble at the top of the very steep hill but the grid and pitlane (little more than an area for signalling) are at the bottom.

The BARC has recently become very slick with its raceday operations. Even at the BARC’s home circuit of Thruxton, it used to be that races would start late, run late and get dangerously close to the track’s noise curfew. Not anymore though.