Thruxton

This circuit really does things in twos. You brake twice and you are flat out twice. The trick seems to be getting the complex right so that you are then flat out until the chicane. The series of bends at the back are flat out as long as you position the car correctly which is not that easy straight out of the box. My demon plan is to go into the complex slower and tighter so that I am flat out after the middle corner and through the last section of the complex. Then I have to get my braking as late as possible at the chicane - but my abilies so far have been lacking, as has my courage.

I am taking the Griffith as last time I turned up in our new Citroen Picasso (which I love!) and people were ungenerous and childish. I see no harm in a diesel that carries a large number of people in comfort. I do not think it signifies that I am a senile tosser who should be a grandad as some of my colleagues intimated.