After last year’s efforts of going to pretty much all the motorsport events I could get to, this year has been a very different affair. Having attended the World Series by Renault at Silverstone back in July, I had to wait a whole 4 months to the next event – MPH Show at the Birmingham NEC.

The tickets were bought back in June, so it kind of felt like a free event travelling on the way down. Passing what was a gruesome accident on the M1 we made good time missing most of the queues, and we spent about 10 hours there split between the show and the main feature – Top Gear Live.

Yes, the Top Gear trio live on stage messing about for over an hour. Quite comical, but good entertainment nonetheless. The performance started with them displaying and racing some custom built vehicles (if you can call them that) made from chainsaws and strimmers. Thereby followed some demonstrations from Ford’s own stunt drivers in some Focus RS’s, a line-up of some the world’s most rarest cars, Reliant Robin racing, Japanese-style drifting and not to mention an excellent performance of indoor-driving by none other than The Stig.