I’d come back in between stints and was about to experience max attack, 23,000rpm fan, 3g cornering, 1,000bhp shove for the first time. Thomas Yates, McMurtry’s CEO, sidled up to me, “Now let’s see if we can pull your head off your shoulders.” Hardly words of reassurance, but actually they just made me chuckle. “Yeah, let’s have it,” I thought.
Because even now, months later, I can remember exactly how the Spéirling made me feel – it made me feel like a superhero. Because it’s so small, so low, so narrow, because it instils confidence and because you sit centrally with the wheels hemming you in, you wear the Spéirling like a cape. And suddenly you’re not a puny mortal any more, but have a level of ability way, way…
