McLaren Artura UK review: Brit supercar versus the Top Gear Test Track

I have always wanted to drive like The Stig, but not right here, not now. Twenty years ago, Ben Collins – the ‘tame racing driver’ behind the tinted visor – lost control of a Koenigsegg CCX on this very corner, crashing violently and expensively backwards through a tyre wall. Now it feels like the McLaren Artura and I might suffer the same fate. The curve in question is the flat-out Follow Through, which slices across the centre of Dunsfold Aerodrome – better known as the Top Gear Test Track. I have already turned in, it’s too late to brake and I’m carrying way more speed than seems sensible. I feel the car go light and twitch slightly as it hits the destabilising hump near the apex, but try to ignore every instinct shouting at me to back off. Calmly, almost serenely, the Artura settles on its suspension, holds its line and accelerates away. Wow, that was fast. After Collins’ crash in 2006, Koenigsegg fitted the CCX with a new rear spoiler to boost downforce and stability. But a