My Other Family Car's a Porsche ; Porsche Panamera Turbo Is It a Sports Car? Is It a Four-Door Saloon? With a V8 Motor Up Front and a Kids' Play Area in the Back, It's a New Kind of Hybrid

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Every year I join 150,000 people dressed in tweeds and twin-sets for the Goodwood Revival, the pre-1966 motorsports and fancy dress party. It's the best weekend in the motoring calendar with an amazing variety of people, outfits and vintage entertainment, but the races are the main attraction. I love seeing millionaire car nuts such as Rowan Atkinson and Nick Mason driving their own pride- and-joys in anger, and F1 legends such as Stirling Moss and Derek Bell back burning rubber in their old steeds.

Best of all, though, is the prospect of a truly massive pile-up. No one gets hurt, but with a fortune in Lightweight E-types and 250 GTOs haring sideways round the bends, I've seen crashes there that must have cost a good few million quid. They're insured, of course, but it's brilliant to see cars that rare and special being used for their intended purpose.

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My Other Family Car's a Porsche ; Porsche Panamera Turbo Is It a Sports Car? Is It a Four-Door Saloon? With a V8 Motor Up Front and a Kids' Play Area in the Back, It's a New Kind of Hybrid

And this year I was in one of them. Not a vintage F1 car. No, I got roped into a Mini race. I was told all I had to do was keep up with the car in front, driven by an old bloke with grey hair in a tweed jacket and tie. For the first four corners I was doing fine. Then...

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