Do a lap around the Top Gear track - or experience one with The Stig

Fans of the BBC’s Top Gear can now experience spinning round the programme’s test track with the mysterious Stig, as well as completing a lap themselves.

The corporation’s commercial arm BBC Worldwide is allowing viewers to be in the driving – or passenger – seat with a series of high-speed attractions at Dunsfold Park in Surrey, where the programme is filmed.

You can follow in the tyre tracks of Tom Cruise or Benedict Cumberbatch by trying out the “star in a reasonably priced car” course in a Kia Cee’d, just like those used on the BBC2 programme under the eye of a professional driver.

And you can experience the adrenaline rush of sitting next to The Stig as he silently steers a lap, for the cost of £99.

The Top Gear Track Experiences are launching today, August 27, and are expected to be offered throughout the year – although they will have to fit around the programme’s filming commitments.

Visitors can also be taken round the famous course by another pro driver, or try off-roading in a 4X4. If you’re aged 11 to 17 you’ll also be able to get involved – an off-road course with the opportunity to smash cones bearing the faces of presenters Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May – though we assume you’re actually supposed to weave around them. Killjoy.

(Matt Crossick/PA)

The programme is already a huge money-spinner for Worldwide and the BBC, generating millions in programme sales and merchandise.

Details of the new activities are at topgeartrackexperience.com.