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The Safety Perspective

In our series of Best of 2005, this is Mark Hughes' column from Autosport Magazine, which was published on September 15th 2005.

Autosport Magazine Dec 14, 2005, 12:48 PM

It was a drizzly night as we made our way home from the circuit. We came out through an unfamiliar exit, just blindly following the signs until we hit the main road. Traffic was light but the roads were kind of spooky - unfamiliar fast curves between the trees seen through the wiper strokes, occasional buildings up close to the road, detail smeared through the glass, demister struggling to keep up.

Then through the mist it loomed, a double right-hand kink, very solid white-painted farm building picked out by the headlights tight up to the left-hand kerb on the exit. It was a vista familiar from countless '50s and '60s motor racing pictures: Masta Kink. We were on the old Spa circuit.