VARIETY SHOW

We’re in a golden age of fast cars. This is going to be blast, unless, of course, there’s a slight medical emergency...

WORDS JACK RIX

“JUST LIKE LE MANS, WE’RE STARTING AT 3PM” 3PM I’m two laps in, ratcheted into the Atom, concentrating hard and sweating liberally when I feel it. Weight on the outside corner of my eyelid, then the drip as sunblock-infused perspiration makes contact with cornea. Dull warmth builds quickly to an ocular emergency. I wipe frantically with my grimy fingers and make the situation 42 times worse. It’s both sides streaming now, vision terminally blurred, speed and racing line long since abandoned in favour of keeping it out of the gravel. And I can hear them coming… By this point I’m operating a two seconds open, two seconds shut policy – it’s the best I can do. That and pray they see the Atom in time to take evasive action. Sounds…

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Top Gear South Africa (Digital) - 1 Issue, November 2019

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