WE’RE APPROACHING THE FAST, UPHILL Turn 12 of the Monteblanco circuit in southern Spain in the Taycan Turbo GT. I’m riding shotgun with Lars Kern, the Porsche factory driver who took this car around the Nürburgring in 7min 07sec last year. He shouts across: ‘At first I wasn’t convinced by the Active Ride suspension. I lost pretty much all feeling for the car, and it didn’t give me what I needed on track.’ We’re still accelerating.
At what feels like the point of no return, I lunge for the imaginary brake pedal in the passenger footwell. A heartbeat later Kern finally eases off, but not by much, and turns in hard towards the apex. I’m sucked down into the Taycan’s carbon seat through the compression, then slammed into
