Single seater experience @ Rockingham
Last weekend, I splashed out £169 for just half an hour’s driving around Rockingham International Motorspeedway . Am I nuts, or what? The difference this time was that I was in a car with only 115 bhp . No wait, the difference this time was that I was in a single seater race car. Well, a sanitised equivalent, at least. True, it did have only 115 horses, but it was light enough to make this ample. Overall, though, as an experience, it’s one I won’t be seeking to repeat. After the usual safety briefing, my group of 4 was split up between a pair of pace cars (also single seaters). We then trundled out of the pits onto the National circuit in the oval’s infield and ever-so-slowly increased the speed as we got used to the controls. To be honest, the only thing that felt slightly unusual was the 4-speed, extremely short-throw gearbox, situated next to your right hand. Ten minutes in and we trundled back into the pits, only to head back out in about 20 seconds’ time. The rest of the sessi