First the manufacturers raise the proverbial bar by tweaking last year’s performance benchmarks, then at TopGear we raise our own game. Last year’s Speed Week becomes TG24 Hours – the reason will become very clear in a few pages. Big and better ideas lead to busier schedules and ultimately higher sensory content to absorb. Weeks have since passed and I still can’t believe we pulled it off.
The rules haven’t changed; particularly when it comes to reaching the overall the winner. Only one. Our festival of fast isn’t bogged down by categories, although we do pair them up in the beginning purely for bite-size logistics. The racecars (ID.R, 935 and i20 WRC) are the exceptions, invited to melt our former perspectives of speed and physics but regarded as extreme outliers…
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Top Gear South Africa (Digital) - 1 Issue, November 2019