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Written by Stephen Dobie
These are the best cars at Speed Week 2018. Of course they are. They"re focused lightweights, and if you"re going to drive on track especially a track as endlessly testing as Circuit de Charade you ought to be in a car designed precisely for the job. Not a plush supercar that"s had stuff removed (a backwards route to lightweight) and certainly not a big tractor with a V8 in it (just backwards, full stop). But for cars with a shared ethos, this isn"t half a diverse bunch. From a Renault with an automatic gearbox to a carbon-fibre bathtub with a park bench on its rear deck via the lairiest Lotus yet and a 150,000 gap they represent three quite different approaches to lightweighting. While the large, intimidating wing of the Dallara Stradale suggests I should work cautiously up to it, it"s impossible to resist such an outrageous-looking device. At once menacing, beautiful, exotic and scary, its arrival in the paddock makes a previously exciting bunch of cars look timid and predictable.
Date written: 9 Nov 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 13993
These are the best cars at Speed Week 2018. Of course they are. They"re focused lightweights, and if you"re going to drive on track especially a track as endlessly testing as Circuit de Charade you ought to be in a car designed precisely for the job. Not a plush supercar that"s had stuff removed (a backwards route to lightweight) and certainly not a big tractor with a V8 in it (just backwards, full stop). But for cars with a shared ethos, this isn"t half a diverse bunch. From a Renault with an automatic gearbox to a carbon-fibre bathtub with a park bench on its rear deck via the lairiest Lotus yet and a 150,000 gap they represent three quite different approaches to lightweighting. While the large, intimidating wing of the Dallara Stradale suggests I should work cautiously up to it, it"s impossible to resist such an outrageous-looking device. At once menacing, beautiful, exotic and scary, its arrival in the paddock makes a previously exciting bunch of cars look timid and predictable.
Date written: 9 Nov 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 13993
