Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

Good stuff. How was Paddock? Full gas at the apex?

Not quite, two cars went off there on the sighting lap - within 9 minutes of the track opening.

For the entire rest of the session their course through the gravel was right in front of you as you accelerated from the apex, reproachfully reminding you of the price of failure.

That said, it was close when I went out with the instructor - he told me to turn in later, get on the gas harder, and allow the car to run out further toward the rumble strip.

I triggered the ABS briefly coming into Druids a couple of times - I think when I didn't get my throttle blip quite right, and the rear tyres struggled. Druids was also quite a lot of fun when got right.

The corner I found hardest (bearing in mind I'm rubbish at this) was Clearways.

Majority of the track was third, fourth on the Brabham straight, second for Druids and Graham Hill.