FOR many enthusiasts, the urge to start driving was all-consuming from an early age. Anyone else remember charging around the playground at school making ‘brumm-brumm’ noises, holding an imaginary steering wheel in their right hand, and changing gears with their left? No wonder my A-level results suffered…
But pretend electric cars of the future won’t need to be revved furiously by driving legends in the making. Does this mean tomorrow’s kids will instead be running around the playground making whirring noises, with one hand on an imaginary wheel and the other holding a smartphone? Or is the magic of driving as we know it evaporating like spilt petrol as far as today’s young people are concerned? To find out, we needed some willing kids, and what better opportunity than an aptly named Young Driver training event at the Newbury Showground in Berkshire?
Young Driver has been operating for around 13 years, having snowballed from its early days in one corner of
