About 15 years ago, I spent a ‘track day’ at Silverstone with my best friend Sean Langan. The climax was an Audi TT race, the result of which has always been a matter of dispute. I crossed the line first, but a race official told us afterwards that, technically, I should have been disqualified for illegal overtaking. Needless to say, we both claimed victory.
This disagreement was destined to remain unresolved, until last week when Quintessentially invited me to the Millbrook Proving Ground to test-drive the Aston Martin range. I asked if I could bring Sean along and, to my delight, they said yes. The rematch was on.
Millbrook is a testing facility owned by General Motors set in 700 acres of rolling countryside in Bedfordshire. It’s used by everyone from the British Army to JCB and contains a range of different tracks where human crash-test dummies put the latest vehicles through their paces.
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