TRICK OF THE TAIL

IT’S LONGTAIL TIME AGAIN, AND THIS TIME it’s the turn of the Big Daddy – the Super Series car with its claws sharpened and the sort of stringent weight loss and muscle-building regime that would make an East German training camp coach blanch.

Many have spoken of McLaren fatigue recently, a snowblindness created by an endless sequence of new models and MSO one-offs, but however otherworldly in price or performance the new 765LT may be, I find it hard to imagine not being excited by the arrival of a 720S aimed specifically at those who like to drive hard on road and track. Consider, too, that it’s forebear, the ballistic 675LT, was sometimes referred to as a modern-day Ferrari F40, and that it was so nearly the winner of eCoty 2015 (one judge really didn’t get on with it, which affected its final score badly). So even in this