Round two of PH's time with the Valkyrie. Now with more grip, less drama - and much more speed.
Déjà vu? Me too. Last year I was lucky enough to get a passenger ride in theat the Goodwood Festival of Speed, sitting next to then-CEO Tobias Moers and experiencing the considerable thrills of feeling a not-quite production version of the hypercar deal with both a damp surface and a lack of traction control.
Which is why hacks might tend to get a bit blasé about such amazing opportunities. I’ve sat next to Stig Blomqvist as he attacked a snow-covered Scandinavian trail in a SWB Quattro rally car, and in an AMG GT R around the Nordschliefe as one of Merc’s tame pros, put in a lap just 25 seconds off the then production car record. I treated both with the same insouciance as I would a rollercoaster ride.
I’m sweating in the hot sun and broiling in a black fireproof suit when the car returns to the pits for my turn. Although the AMR Pro has a substantially altered tub from the regular car, the process of getting in is as inelegant as it was in Goodwood last year. The approved technique is to stand on the seat base and then slide down.
It is less dramatic, too. The start of the Goodwood run felt properly edgy as the engine did battle with the rear tyres to try and find traction. There is no such drama on slicks and a hot surface; after a taking things gently through a couple of corners Priaulx is fully on it. Apart from a single immaculately corrected rear-end breakway in one of the slower corners, there is no discernible sense of slip anywhere.
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