The trackday season will be here before you know it – including evo’s: book your space at evotrackdays.co.uk. And the good news is you don’t need to spend £192,000 on a Porsche 992 GT3 RS to have a great time. Venture into the classifieds and there are purpose-built tools to suit every budget, each offering the kind of speed and interaction that will test your ability and reward you in equal measure. Some can even double up as your everyday car.
Despite what marketing departments might have you believe, not all modern performance cars are suited to track use. Many are capable of stunning lap times, but if you’re driving something heavy you’ll be chewing through consumables in no time. Our second-hand picks have been specifically engineered for the job, with layers to chip away at and explore. You can’t record lap times at most UK track events, so ultimate performance isn’t the priority here; instead we’re looking for endurance, feel and enough adjustability to allow the driver to make the difference.
VOLKSWAGEN GOLF GTI CLUBSPORT S (Mk7)
The understated ultimate Golf that excels on road or track
PARK THE VOLKSWAGEN GOLF GTI CLUBSPORT S NEXT to any other car on this list and it’ll be completely upstaged. For one, it’s a hatchback rather than a specialised sports car, and hot Golfs have never been particularly hardcore or visually arresting. But this only makes it more satisfying when Porsche Caymans and
