LAMBORGHINI TEST DRIVER VALENTINO Balboni famously owned a Fiat 500 (the ‘bambino’ version), reasoning that if you drove a Countach or Diablo for work, nothing you could afford to park on your own driveway could ever measure up. Andy Wallace is of a similar mindset. The man who has competed at the Le Mans and Daytona 24-hour races 21 times apiece, has set production-car speed records in the Jaguar XJ220 and McLaren F1, has broken the 300mph barrier in a Bugatti Chiron Super Sport and is currently Bugatti’s most illustrious test driver owns a Volkswagen ID.3. His wife drives a Golf E.
Like Balboni, Wallace’s view is that after driving race cars and hypercars for a living, no road car is going to come close to the speed or thrill. Although he does confess that a Porsche 911 GT3 is a temptation. ‘It’s one of the most track-focused supercars, and it is very, very good on the track and really good fun on the road, too. But it’s not even close to feeling like a racing car because it’s not a race car. It’s designed for a different job, at which it excels.’
Wallace bought the all-electric ID.3 because of his long-term fascination with automotive technology and innovation, and
