Motor Sport Magazine

ANDREW FRANKEL

“We are meant to be the puppeteers, cars our puppets, but it no longer feels the case”

ELSEWHERE IN THIS ISSUE YOU WILL find my review of the Ferrari Roma, so I won’t let it delay us here except to say that when I drove it, it did strike me that if a car of such performance were produced not that long ago, it would have been all but undrivable for quite a lot of the time.

Indeed the single biggest reason the entire envelope of automotive performance has been able to expand at what at times has seemed an exponential rate over the

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