Moment in Time: 'You come into it at 65kph and within 20 seconds you're down to 9kph'

September, 2012. Mark Rohan is ten seconds adrift of the leader in the Paralympic H1 Time Trial when he approaches the daunting incline that is Hailwood Hill at Brand's Hatch. Brendan O'Brien takes it from there in the third installment of our 'Moment In Time' series

TV doesn’t just add ten pounds. It distorts distance and depth. It leaves the viewer blind to all sorts of realities.

Brands Hatch was built on an undulating patch of Kent farmland. That topography still informs the famous old circuit but it wasn’’t so obvious when you were sitting on a sofa watching Nigel Mansell gun his Williams-Honda F1 car around the track back in the 1980s.