Some of us went to Brooklands this year and plonked our cars as close to the bank as possible. James May went one better and got an Aston Martin and a MacLaren Mercedes to race around the track.

This was the Scalextric episode, and was well worth seeing, though there was less about the history of the toy than there was in the other programmes in the series. It will be on iPLayer for the week, and I believe it’s repeated over the weekend. Well worth a watch though.