As you watch the video there is a waiting period as the cars line up for their run up the hill. There are usually 20 or 30 cars there gathered before the start line ready to make their run. The marking on the road SPIN is where you are permitted to spin the drive wheels to warm the tyres. The video shows the climb live. After the runs we are collected at Top Paddock until the last car has gone up, then we come down in convoy and await the call for the next run.

When you load the video from Dropbox you can fast forward to 3 min 10 sec and see the start of my climb as the green light changes. It's hard acceleration in first gear off the line, shifting to 2nd as we pass the commentary box, slightly ease off as we approach Kennel (with Blue safety cells on the barrier) then back on the gas and shift into 3rd as we go through Kink. From then it’s a long hard climb on wide open throttle (WOT) in 3rd through Crossing to the Bottom S, a tight left hander, approached with a late turn in at the end of the wooden sleepers on the right and then keeping close to but avoiding the rumble strip on the left (or your false teeth may fall out) then staying close into the left bank prior to a late turn in to Top S and then progressively hard acceleration away up the finish straight to the line.

From satnav data the speed across the line is about 65 mph. Although Member’s Day and School Days are not timed, from the camera data it looks like I’m getting through in under 50 secs. The record is held by a single seater car at 22.58 secs but with weight of probably a third of my RV8 and with probably at least twice the horsepower".