The only female entrant will be Emma McKinstry hailing from Banbridge. If spoof sports presenter Alan Patridge were to interview her, how might he handle it?

Partridge is a man who's favourite Beatles album is The Best of the Beatles, and who thinks that U2's Sunday Bloody Sunday is about the boredom of Sabbath afternoons. So it was always likely that confusion would surface when Radio Norwich's finest custodian of the faux paus was unleashed on Britains top lady rally driver Susan Herper.

This online video has Alan sprouting more double entendres than James Bond as a snooker commentator, describing Susie in her vehicle in his own inimitable words:

"It’s a great model and it goes like a bomb. And the cars not bad either."

However Susie soon gets the upper hand as she brings Alan for a drive in her racer, where he turns a nasty shade of green.