CIRCUIT BREAKER

Petrol A45 AMG takes on electric Model 3. Now, who turned out the lights?

WORDS OLLIE MARRIAGE

High above Portimão’s main straight, a handful of glow worms try their best to cast light over proceedings. The plan had been for the racers to run deep into the night, to have the full Le Mans experience. But the VW ID.R has even less illumination than Portimão. The Porsche 935 has enough for both – its LED light beams are extraordinary – but in the dark that would leave the ID.R tooling around in the wake of a vastly slower car. And I do mean vastly. And I am talking about the 935. So the racers were pulled in, much to Chris Harris’s chagrin, and this test got an early call up. Since the ID.R managed only three fast laps at a time before needing a full “is the…

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

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