Simon, it was just one of the days that you can pay to go on and be instructed etc, my girlfriend at the time's old man bought me a day there, the sort of thing that you can do these days with the likes of red-letter-days etc.
Ive never raced one, in fact I wasnt all that good in it IIRC, Im sure I had about 3 spins, I was even worse with RWD 13 years ago than I am now, lol