A lap of Oulton Park with Mike Conway

Circuit length: 3800 m/2.36 m

Crossing the start-finish line at 125mph, you come quite close to the pit wall so you're now bringing it back across to the left-hand side before a small brake and one down-change into a very fast first corner right-hander.

It's a fast flowing corner but you can't use too much of the curbs through the turn or on the exit as they are a bit too bumpy.

From there you are back into fifth gear, down the hill, as you go over the crest you are flying and you can't see anything. You drop down and come into Cascades, which is a small brake to a very fast left-hander at 135mph.

About half way around the corner it banks on the inside so you really need to get over to the inside initially. The exit is very quick on the way out and you haven't got much run off; there's only a small amount of curb and you can't use too much of that.

Then down an undulating straight with lots of dips and at the end you've got a very fast left-hand corner (Island Bend), which is flat, so take that at 142mph.

After that there's a couple more dips before a right-hand banked hair pin, so you've got a really hard braking area and a few down changes in the gears. It goes into a really tight bank, so you can really run a lot of speed into it and to get out of it but you can lose traction as you come out when the track straightens back up again.

A short straight, up a couple of gears before hard braking for a chicane (Brittens). There are very big curves on the left and on the right so you can use as much as you can through there. It's quite a tight exit out of the chicane and up the hill while changing across track surfaces so it's quite bumpy.

You go up a slight incline then down a slight hill, into another really hard breaking area between the 100 and 50 metre boards, before Knickerbrook chicane. Down shift gears again, you've got tyres on the inside, so it's a really blind corner. You can still accelerate through there, slowing it down again for the left, and then out, where you've got another rise as you exit through the right hand part of the chicane, which can make the rear of the car a bit lively, so you have to watch that there. You can't use too much of the curbs on the exit of that corner because it can pull you off - it can just suck you off the road.

From there you're up another hill, pulling up through the gears, up over the crest into a small straight before a slight left. You're at top gear at this point. Then you have Druids. A sharp turn in, try and get on the power as early as you can out, because that determines your speed all the way down to the last corner.

There's a few more dips along the straight but you reach 140mph before another really hard breaking area into the last corner. Down a few gears and the inside of track cambers in as you go into the corner and rises up as you come out of it so it's possible to lose traction there.

As soon as you go over that rise, you go down a hill then reascend to join onto the pit straight again.

It's one of the hardest circuits on brakes during the season and claims one of the top three corners in the UK: Druids really sorts out how the field is placed.