Hold onto your hats, here's Ryan's flying lap of Snetterton:

"Starting from the pit straight Riches is the first corner on the circuit. It's a very fast corner that in qualifying certainly should be taken with just a light roll on the brakes at around 140 mph before getting back on the power at around 115 mph. It's not much of an overtaking opportunity during the race as carrying speed is so important there, usually if you do have a stab there you will usually end up losing the place back on the run up to Sear. Not one for the faint of heart.

Sear in my opinion is the most important corner on the circuit, both for setting a quick lap, and for getting ahead in the race. The approach isn't too fast as you only have a short run from the exit of Riches. I use a corner board on the left of the circuit for my braking point, down to third gear and try to turn as late as possible, so as to get as straight an exit as possible. Carrying enough speed through Sear is very important and quite tricky. If you carry too much you run wide onto the large tarmac patch at the edge of the circuit, which can be slippery if it has rained at all, as well as making you travel 50 metres more than you need to. And if you don't carry enough you'll lose out on the long Revett Straight both in qualifying and the race. It's the best place on the circuit to start a move on somebody, but not to make one. If you try to go inside someone at Sear they will breeze past you on the straight as you run wide. It's never easy being out front as you exit Sear.

The Revett straight is where most of the overtaking happens at Snetterton. Because it's such a long straight it allows you to sit right behind someone and let him or her “tow” you along. This is because the car right in front of you is knocking all the air in front out of the way, meaning you effectively have less air to run through. This results in many a late breaking competition on the entry to the Esses at the far end of the straight. In qualifying you reach the end of the Revett straight at around 145mph. During the race if you have a tow and use the boost, which gives you 50 extra horse -power (up to 325bhp) you can see around 155mph.

If you hadn't already passed somebody on the straight the Esses is where you would be having a go. In qualifying you can pick up a lot of time by being very brave on the brakes. I use the third turn board on the right just before you go under the bridge as my braking point, and carry the brakes all the way through the long left, until I get to the considerably tighter right. By this time I'm down to 60 mph and in 3^rd gear down from 5th trying to avoid getting on the power too early or you'll run wide onto the dirt on the way up to the Bombhole. You can have a good lunge at people at the Esses. It's easy to make the move stick here, as it's hard for the person on the outside to stay in front for the right hander as they are squeezed right to the outside. If I am watching racing at Snetterton I usually watch here as there is always some great late braking moves here.

The Bombhole is a very fast corner and pretty unique in Britain. In a quick car it gives you the sensation that you've been slingshot out of it because of its positive camber. It's a very short run from the Esses to the Bombhole so I always just short shift to 4^th just as I enter making the car a lot more balanced, taken with a brief lift in qualifying and with a definite lift in the race at around 90mph, It's a good place to watch to see people getting out of shape and to get a close view of cars on the limit. Then is the run up to Coram where you just snatch 5^th before you start to turn. Coram is all about how brave you are. If you take it too easily you can lose lots of time, but if you're too brave you can run wide onto the grass and have a big accident, which it's legendary for. But if you are committed at Coram you can reap the benefits both in qualifying and the race.

The exit of Coram brings you into the run up to the Russell Chicane. If you're fast through Coram it means you can get alongside people into Russell. Because Russell is so tight, normally if you're alongside somebody they won't try to close the door as they run the risk of being pushed onto the large serrated kerbs on the left, or worse colliding with the other car. It's a 2^nd gear corner at around 60 mph, down from 5^th and 120mph when you start braking. I always carry the brakes in, and take as much of the first flat kerb on the way in, so as to give me as straight an exit as possible. Again like Sear the exit is very important as you then have the run up the long pit straight. It's a fine balance between squeezing enough power on to get a good exit and running wide onto the rough kerbing and dirt which can cause you to spin."