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    Nov 01, 2019 4 minutes
    WORDS TOM HARRISON
    PHOTOGRAPHY
    MARK RICCIONI

    MY HAIR IS A SOURCE OF MUCH JEALOUSY AT TG TOWERS.

    Chiefly because I have some, while many of my colleagues do not. I am therefore much better at testing roadsters. Sure, I may not be able to get a McLaren 720S Spider as heroically sideways as Ollie Marriage, but I can certainly tell you how much of a mess you’ll look after a reasonably swift lap of Portimão. The answer, in case you too are follically well-endowed, is a bloody big one.

    Nothing here is as fast down the circuit’s more than halfmilelong pit straight as the 720S Spider. Not even the Porsche 935 or VW ID.R (which clatters almost immediately into its top-speed

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