Renault World Series

Every year, we manage to blag free tickets to the Renault World Series racing event - generally held at Silverstone race track. The boys absolutely love it.

I love wandering around the catering vehicles! They are truly amazing. This was my favourite - and next year I am going to be brave and ask if I can have a look around! It belonged to one of the Spanish teams. As you can tell, it is a huge articulated trailer whose roof expands (to make the drivers lounge I was told), and then the sides pull out to make a huge kitchen, dining room and lounge for the rest of the staff and guests. I managed to stick my head into some of the catering "awnings" - one of them were having a hog roast! The logistics of transporting and feeding the cars, drivers, mechanics and rest of the team around the world must be a nightmare!

The boys love the new cars,

whilst I always fall for the vintage models.

And of course the racing was good - except if you were Greg Mansell (son of Nigel) who was the only one to crash in spectacular fashion, and it wasn't even his fault.

The noise of the one F1 car that they demonstrate with is deafening - I can't imagine what 20 of them on the track all at once sounds like.