A WINSFORD man was given the ride of his life after winning the chance to drive a rally car around Silverstone.

Pete Winstanley enjoyed a whizz with the track’s professional rally school as part of a promotional campaign by chewing gum brand Airwaves.

Pete was instructed on rally driving techniques such as handbrake turns, power slides and Scandinavian flicks, before doing timed laps of a rally stage. Proceedings were rounded off with a co-drive experience in a Mitsubishi Evolution.

Pete said: “It was an amazing experience – the most exciting thing I’ve ever done!”