But there, parked right next to it, was the cheaper, less powerful SR3XX, the latest version of the Radical SR3, the car that has been Radical’s staple product for 20 years and must therefore at ...

Actually, that’s not fair, but it’s certainly not as happy crawling around the pit lane as a more road-focussed (relatively speaking) McLaren 620R or even Radical’s own SR3XX.

But actually, if I have any problem with the car at all, it’s only that I also drove the latest SR3XX, which may have only a fraction of the power from its 1.5-litre Suzuki engine (226bhp) but ...