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If I’m honest, nothing prepared me for the opportunity to drive an all-out purpose-built Le Mans endurance racecar around Killarney International Raceway. Nothing. Not the brief test I had in a modern Porsche 911 GT3 car or that time I wedged myself into a mental DD2 race go-kart.

I had known Nic Adcock for two years since our initial meet up at one of those healthy eating spots in Cape Town. The type where kale is mentioned extensively and you need an extension on your mortgage just to afford a juice with turmeric. Nic puts the gentleman in gentleman racecar driver. Having competed in Renault Clio Cup, a support series to the British Touring Car Championship, in a

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