Is this hot or what? screams The Prodigy's Maxim Reality midway through a blistering set that threatens to overheat a jumped-up horde of beatnuts in the blazing Sonisphere sunshine. This is the fucking place to be.

Indeed, during ?Firestarter? the crowd started doing a meandering moshed-up conga. If they weren't hot and creating havoc before, they were now. Just an hour before the band went on Team Sonisphere caught up with frontman Keith Flint after he?d taken a spin around a Hockenheimring racetrack in a Formula 3 car to talk fast cars, tattoos and festival crowds.

Engines, circuits and horsepower and going on stage are my two greatest passions and to do the two in one day is just incredible, he enthused. And to drive this circuit is awesome. I'm just blown away.

So were the German Sonispherers a short time later.

The entire exclusive interview will appear on the site later this week. It?s worth keeping an eye out for.