WHAT’S THE BEST CAR YOU’VE EVER driven? It’s the question every automotive journalist gets asked the most. I’ve never come up with a good answer: like everything in life, it’s all relative. But the most fun car I’ve ever driven, that one’s easy. In 2016 I raced a season in a Radical SR1, the Peterborough track car company’s entry-level racing car. It felt as if it spliced the genes of a kart with a three-quarter-scale prototype racer. I’ve never experienced another car so immediate, so controllable and so thrilling.
That was the original SR1, launched in 2012. It was comprehensively updated in 2017 and now this is its third generation, the Radical SR1 XXR, introduced halfway through 2023 with fresh electronics, revised aerodynamics (including an
