How McLaren’s GT3 ‘single-seater’ defies expectations

Time in a thoroughbred racer leaves you searching for time in yourself, especially when the rewards for total commitment are so high, as our man discovered at Snetterton

Ben Anderson Apr 28, 2021, 3:35 PM

I’m driving back from Snetterton down the M11, traces of earlier adrenalin still coursing through the bloodstream. I’m trying to decompress, and somehow process my experience. The usual stuff: what I did well; what I didn’t do well; where I could have done better. A racing driver’s staple diet.

I’m thinking particularly about the last part of the lap, the bit that still feels most like the old circuit: the Esses, Bomb Hole, and the entry to Coram – that corner used to be super-fast, but it’s now a frustrating, long-radius, almost 180-degree right-hander that feeds into the second part of what used to be the Russell chicane.