Alas, it seems that these Club Handling days at Dunsfold - where Top Gear is filmed - may be no more thanks to regulations and red tape! We just have to hope that the L&Club can find another suitable location, as these days are huge fun, and a great time to relax and enjoy a bit of hooning doing stuff which you really shouldn't do either on the road or on track.

Apart from the standing around, a wet day is equally fun on this sort of day.

Cones beckon!

Can you guess what is under this??!!

What about this one?

Usually in morning and afternoon sessions, these days are always popular.

Steve Mell, the organiser of these days, gives a thorough briefing before each session, detailing the order of the day and most importantly, safety.

A motley band of Club members volunteer as marshals to support Steve and make the day possible.

Caterham turned up to give passenger rides around the Top Gear track in their new (then) CSR race car.

Even a Porsche has some uses on a day like this.

The marshals find their posts!

And we are off....

There are usually 2 runs up the runway, next to each other - one is a 0-60 where you can strap on some timing gear and see how well you can do, and running in parallel, a slalom - where once you remember where you go, you can get faster and faster throughout the session - especially if the track dries out. The frame on the car is a tyre rack, and it provided a great platform to hang my bullet cam off and get some unusual angle shots from.

This is a still from an on-board movie showing the rear wheel spinning.

Note the ludicrous, boom-mounted, bullet camera position!

Wet n' windy!

Adil well wrapped up against the sun...sorry, rain.

Arnie has installed a tennis ball launcher under his bonnet...not sure why?!

Next session briefing.

All sorts of vehicles turn up....

...but not sure I am ever really going to fit this particular one!