" Chris Goodwin let up at just the right moment.
I was about to hurl when the chief test driver for McLaren Automotive eased off the throttle and said, matter-of-factly, “So basically that’s it. The track really highlights how the adaptive damping supports the car on braking and acceleration, keeping the car flat, giving the car maximum grip.”We had just done a lap and a half around the road course at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif. in a McLaren MP4-12C. Goodwin, a former pro race car driver, was instrumental in its development.
This was the North American debut of the quarter-million-dollar marvel. And after a day of journalists driving it on mountainous roads and on the racing circuit, Goodwin was tasked with showing us what it could really do.He donned his fluorescent orange helmet and calmly manhandled the sports car around the Auto Club’s tight chicanes and long straights, deliberately inducing slides and wheel spins. As you’ll see in the video I shot below, Goodwin drove like a hooligan. Not for fun, but to show how easily the McLaren MP4-12C handles pretty much anything.If only my stomach could. "
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