Porsche estimates that the drop in power could cost them up to 4 seconds more a lap on the 8.47-mile Circuit de la Sarthe.

GT500 cars have spec tubs and purpose built racing engines. Think of it as a pure blood racing car that just happens to look like a road car. The GT3 car is a road car that has been extensively modified, so they’ve come from the opposite direction.

The TS020 and CLK-LM were homologated by the FIA for the FIA GT championship, and only needed one road car built to legalise the racing car.

You still need to homologate a specification for the car, so you need to say that the Honda NSX GT3 has a V6 engine, rear wheel drive, this fire bottle, that rollcage, this fuel cell blah blah blah, and they all need to be passed for safety and competition reasons. Saves someone rolling up with a fuel tank that will…

Why did they get rid of frameless doors? They were cool and weird.

An absolutely awful sitcom, set in the non-posh part of Cheshire, that somehow made it to 80 episodes before it got binned.

You never watched ElDorado, did you? Or ‘Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps’?

Chris Evans is, as you suspect, a bellend of the highest order.

I liked it a lot more than what we have now, what with the ACO sort of running their race within other series’ and getting on. See Sebring 2012 for the absolute mess that happened when the FIA got involved.

Not just Le Mans. Audis were crashing into Ferarris in all the other ILMC races.

Are there any automatics that have the + / - the correct way round?

Laguna Seca is a relatively short circuit, only 3.6km.

Not the first time.

‘try and explain the handbrake’

Are you sure it wasn’t the bleep machine?

96,000 RPM? How long does that take to spin up?

Two panels in the canopy can be punched out.

No. This does:

It’s surprising to have it in a show car / press shot.

Not in poverty spec, you won’t. You might get the powerful version with a manual though.