Driving a race car at speed is very exhilarating. The sheer rush of controlling a Race Car in amongst a number of equally fast and movable objects is one of the biggest buzzes that you can have in life. The feelings that you will get from driving a race car will take you through a broad range of emotions, and you will experience a massive high both during and after each drive that you take in a race car. The ultimate end result is of having an amazing feeling of controlling a Race Car that is right on the very edge of adhesion with the race track below your tyres. That's what circuit racing is... The euphoria of being the fastest over a given piece of track. The faster you go, the greater the euphoria.

Approaching a race begins with a mixture of nervous anxiety, and a tremendous anticipation of what is about to come, and how you will deal with the moving variables of the other cars on the track. You may recall certain tricky parts of the track that will play in your mind, from when you practiced earlier on in the day, and did your set-up on the car. Your mind will replay these images, and you will probably talk to other drivers about the circuit itself, and areas of reduced adhesion. Other pieces of the track will remain in your mind as being great fun, and so you will be really looking forward to those parts. Like a long fast opening right hand bend that ends with a rise over a crest, that you know you can take 'flat out'. If you have already at the track before, then the feeling will be magnified, as you have some familiarity with how your car will move as you steer into the bend, and become "light" across the crest.

As you sit on the start line with all the other drivers, you will feel really, really nervous, and will probably be trembling with the blend of adrenalin, anticipation, and excitement for what lies in front of you. Then the flag will be raised, or the green lights will come on, and every part of your being is ready... ready to go. As your engage first gear, your hands will grip the steering wheel in anticipation of making the fastest and cleanest start that you have ever done.

Then in the amazing last few seconds before you launch, you will shift into total certainty that you can control it all... and then suddenly all hell breaks loose, and you are away, and after the initial wheelspin, you are charging down the race track, shifting up through the gears. You are totally and completely focussed. Eyes wide open. Pulse heightened. Breathing fast. Racing towards the first left hand bend, with every other driver wanting to get there before you You keep your right foot hard down in each gear and begin to turn the steering wheel. Then the real buzz starts. The back end is drifting nicely while you position the front with total accuracy into the apex of the bend. In a flash you are past it, going up 1 more gear and out onto the straight with the heartbeat beginning to settle, as you feel total control of all around you. You are aware of cars all around you, yet in a way, you don't even see them. You are totally focussed on the bend ahead, which is a right, and so you left foot brake a little, to slide the tail around a touch as you steer the front end into the tighter turn. You go back down 1 gear to set up for the power run out of the turn and squeeze your right foot flat to the floor - a massive rush. This sensation is like nothing else on land or in the air, as it so real, so immediate, so "now". It is the sense of being immortal, of being beyond the realms of normal human emotion. It is the feeling of being completely alive, to have awoken from a dormant state. It is the feeling of being on the edge, and yet not falling over, and of being millimeters away form the other cars, yet not touching them, and all at 150 km/hr! It is one of the last bastions of true freedom.. it is... circuit racing!