THE PODIUM

Whoop, holler, don’t forget the fizz. Welcome to the winner’s enclosure

WORDS OLLIE MARRIAGE

Ferrari 1965, Ford 1966, Porsche 1982, Audi 2010. None of them did it as well as us. The formation finish. Yes, the Renault’s lagging slightly, but give us a break, we were dead on our feet. And, if we’re honest, slightly surprised with our top three. Twenty-four hours earlier, only the Megane had been on our radar as likely to make it through to the winner’s circle. Road-test radar also suggested the Porsche Cayman GT4 and McLaren 720S Spider would be up among the leaders, but neither excited us as much as they should – the McLaren because we’ve basically seen it all before (Tom Harrison’s point about built-in obsolescence is a very good one), the Cayman because we all had the sense that the first GT4 was that bit more…

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

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