Driver: Paul O’Neill Usual 2022 mount: a microphone BriSCA F1 race: 3rd Car owner: Paul Hines

“It was amazing that. I had to wind myself back a bit because I was running well, and I thought ‘I can have a proper go here’. I didn’t know where I was in the race, but I knew I must have made a few places up and I felt like

I was getting quicker and quicker.

“The car simply has so much throttle it felt a little bit like the DFVengined cars I have driven in tests for Motorsport News before. The car itself wasn’t hard to control. It was more analogue than digital. It was interesting because when you throttle up, you feel like you’re on full power but you are nowhere near. There was probably another quarter of the power to go, but I didn’t venture into that territory.

“Now I have done that race and if I had a good car to use like Paul’s, I would definitely have another go. But I am knackered: I am 15 and a half stone, diabetic and I am ruined after those 16 laps. And I know that what we just did was like category F compared to what the top boys do. I have huge respect for them.

“I have been educated by everybody, and the crowd are so much more knowledgeable than you would think about the cars, and it was an amazing paddock.”