Erm, botched pass? Are we watching the same event? That wasn’t a botched pass, he was taking evasive action to avoid cannonballing into the two dawdling GT cars.

So next year you will want the porsches to win?

In related news, Pastor Maldonado has been recruited as a Cadillac test driver!

What was the previous record? Not mentioned in your piece.

I enjoy that this joke went straight over Mate's head. I don't enjoy that Ford backed down.

Will it still work if you sit in it wrong?

As for the Jaguar XJ220, the world's fastest thing happened, but the all-wheel drive and the V12 did not. Instead, the car had a twin-turbo V6 from a Group B Metro rally car. The Sheikhs were not impressed.