Sporty coupe turns out to be a great companion for honing circuit driving technique.
IF YOU WATCH Formula 1 on Channel 4, you might have seen Karun Chandhok’s feature on F1 driver coach Rob Wilson. Wilson is, of course, a huge talent behind the wheel – he beat Nigel Mansell in F3 – but he’s made a bigger name for himself in the passenger seat,coaching several F1 champions. But he doesn’t coach them in a racecar or even on a racetrack. He trains them on an airfield in a 1.4-litre turbo Vauxhall Astra. I took the GT86 along for an hour one evening to get some tips, after Wilson already spent a day training someone much faster.
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