Could anything be faster along the derestricted roads of the Isle of Man than Porsche and Lamborghini’s latest supercars? Well, yes…
. And it’s properly derestricted, because you’re on the Isle of Man, so as long as you’re not doing anything stupid, you don’t need to worry about the speedometer. Consequently this would usually mean that you don’t have to worry too much about your mirrors. After all, you’re in a 552bhpLeft round the Ramsey Hairpin, right round the Gooseneck and then up onto the Mountain proper. John is not hanging around and I’m using all of the V10’s revs to keep up.
Now there was always the chance when Kenny P was the photographer on a shoot that you could be made to look very silly by a slightly baggy blue Mondeo loaded to the gunwales and being driven with the commitment of a disgruntled Nigel Mansell. But on this occasion it isn’t Kenny; there was just a single headlight, travelling fast.A couple more corners and then it’s on me.
John and the big 325-section Pilot Sport Cups of the GT2 do just enough through the four, linked corners of the Verandah but the bike’s alongside down the next straight and then sweeps through the following open left, leaving another dark tattoo on the tarmac as though signing off with a flourish on the whole brief event. Two supercars left feeling powerless.‘That kid was on it,’ says John, to the ticking accompaniment of cooling metal.
Our egos agree that he must be one of the riders practising for the Manx GP in a couple of weeks’ time.‘Old bloke I work with said he saw you on the Mountain last night. He was on his way home from work and said there were these two white supercars tramping on a bit.’‘Well, he’s got a company car but he goes everywhere on his bike. Loves it. Said he overtook the Lambo on the way up and then nipped past the Porsche out of the Verrandah.
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