We’ve all been there at one time or another, eagerly waiting for a set of traffic lights to change. Revs rising, finding the biting point of the clutch before trying to limit wheelspin and not stall, while for a fleeting second or two – in our minds at least – we’re racing drivers trying to get the jump on our ‘rivals’.
Those same actions are racing through this writer’s head while sitting on the starting grid, looking up in anticipation for the five red lights to come on and then disappear for my inaugural standing start, having only driven the car I’m in for the first time earlier that morning.
