GT3 Class

The most competitive class in modern motorsport, and the car is a big part of why. A naturally aspirated V10 on a grid moving steadily toward turbochargers — the throttle response is immediate, so there is never a delay between what you asked for and what the rear axle does about it.

Balance of Performance keeps every car on the grid within a fraction of a second of every other. Nobody has a machinery advantage. Whatever gap opens up over an hour is you, and everybody in the paddock knows it.

• Balance of Performance levels the field — the gap at the flag is the driver, not the car.
• Anti-lock and traction control are part of the discipline here, not aids to switch off.
• Twenty cars, an hour of racing, and a pit stop you have to get right.

Everything else in the collection hands you a starting position. This one makes you earn it — you practise, you qualify, and where you start is exactly where your own lap put you. Then it does not let up: twenty cars into Eau Rouge on lap one, a pit window you have to hit, tyres going away underneath you, and the light draining out of the Ardennes until the whole field is running headlights. Half a second a lap is the difference between third and seventh, and you will feel every hundredth of it.

The clearest signals in racing, arriving in your hands and feet. Anti-lock modulating under your foot braking into Les Combes. Traction control catching the rear as you get on the power out of Pouhon. Kerbs landing hard, because at Spa you use them deliberately. A distinct pulse when the pit window opens. This is what a racing car actually tells its driver, and none of it is decoration.

Every setting is configured before you sit down — force feedback, haptics, seat position, field of view. Select the experience, and drive.