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Vernon Kaye celebratesVERNON KAY WINS RADIO 1 BREAKFAST SHOW RACING SCHOOL DRIVING CHALLENGE AT ROCKINGHAM

VERNON Kay has been officially crowned Radio 1’s best driver after beating his co-host Comedy Dave Vitty in a special Breakfast Show Driving Challenge with The Racing School at Rockingham.

The two presenters were invited to put their driving skills to the test by the Racing School’s Chief Instructor Neil Boardman live on air on Wednesday (August 12).

The challenge was laid down in order to settle an argument between Vernon, who is standing in for host Chris Moyles this week, and Breakfast Show regular Comedy Dave Vitty, about how hard it is to be an F1 racing driver.

In order to discover who’s ultimately the best driver – Vernon or Dave – The Racing School co-ordinated an afternoon of challenges in our fleet of performance and racing cars. Dave and Vernon’s progress was closely scrutinised by our Chief Instructor Neil, who had the task of identifying a winner following two very different performances.

Neil said: "It was genuinely a very difficult decision but Vernon just edged it. Whilst Dave’s confidence and track knowledge increased and started to get faster as the day progressed, Vernon was just that bit quicker in the single-seaters."

"Vernon was pretty wild to begin with but a half-spin in the V8 supercars and a fairly high-speed loss of control seemed to calm him down a little."

"If they could race together, they would make a great team. Vernon’s aggressive, no fear, style of driving would get guarantee them a good qualifying position on the grid, while Dave would guarantee the car would make it to the end of the race!"

The challenge started with Vernon and Dave learning Rockingham's 1.7 mile National Circuit in a supercharged MINI Cooper S, before being let loose in our beautiful Ferrari 360’s with one to one instruction from Neil.

The second half of the challenge started with more instruction in our fearsome 5.7ltr V8 Touring cars before a series of 'race style' heats in our Formula Racing School single seaters.

Afterwards Dave said: "It has been a fantastic day, very educational and so much fun. We have learned a lot about the craft of motor racing and next time we watch a grand prix we will watch it in a slightly different frame of mind. Driving these cars takes a lot out of you."

"We have learned the basics of racing in a set of very different cars. It just doesn’t get better than days like this."

Vernon added: "It has been an absolutely awesome day. I have really enjoyed the driving, it was more difficult than I thought it would be but I have learned a lot. Neil and the instructors have been brilliant. I was quite an aggressive driver while he was like Driving Miss Daisy!" If you would like to see Vernon and Dave performance at Rockingham or missed the show you can catch all the action at bbc.co.uk/radio1.

For more information about how you can get on track in the awesome cars Dave and Vernon drove, call 0800 234 6034 or visit our website at www.racing-school.co.uk

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