MOTOR Magazine Australia

SPOILER WARNING

BY ALL ACCOUNTS I should have been ready to pull up stumps. It was day four of this year’s bumper Performance Car of the Year testing, and I’d just spent the last seven hours putting our entire 18 car field through their paces at Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit. Track testing that many vehicles is a mammoth task in its own right, but adding in intermittent rain showers, suicidal Cape Barren geese, and the mental workout of keeping on top of the logistics required to keep the show running smoothly meant I was one missed caffeine injection from becoming a standing corpse.

The rest of the judging panel had removed their helmets for the last time, but my work wasn’t done

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