Approximately 25 minutes from the M4, lies Castle Combe circuit, a 1.198 mile track that was opened in 1950, taking over the decommissioned space of the airfield.
The first race meeting to be staged there was on July 8th, by Bristol Motorcycle & Light Car Club, and has been used to host many an event since, as well as allowing BBC's Top Gear to work out their...experiments.
Last month however, Castle Combe was host to McMillan Racing, who brought together various racing events from Caterham Grads, the Ford Fiesta Championship, Formula Ford and the Future Classics series, for a weekend of racing.
Teams and series kept to their respective areas, working long before a race and long after a race.
Telemetry from practice runs helped the teams and drivers decide on the best way to tackle this circuit.
It's essential for teams to do this on any track, but more importantly on a track that had a high level of cars aqua-plaining due to the constant rain.
The slighest inch out, and the driver could easily find himself cruising across the grass, with no chance of stopping.
But as anyone in any motor sport series will tell you, the day doesn't stop just for a bit of rain (unless monsoon season has arrived!)
The cars are geared up, reeved up and tuned up, before finally being allowed out on track, and there, the race begins.
The rain certainly didn't stop the drivers from competing with each other, though I seemed to have developed a foretelling psyche that day, as whatever chicane or corner I happened to be on, would end up being the cusp of the action.
Thankfully, there were no major injuries to the drivers, although some of the cars from the weekend didn't fair so well.