My first experience of the ever burgeoning relationship between Ingolstadt and Stuttgart was the Porsche tweaked Audi RS2 which I had the joy of flinging down the standing quarter mile strip laid out on Madeira Drive at the 1994 Brighton Speed trials. And I’m not sure which gave me greater pleasure: ripping off Ford GT40s …

Anyone who’s ever spent any time in what novelist Wilbur Smith was wont to call ‘the vast heat that is Africa’ will undoubtedly tell you that there’s something unique about the Dark Continent’s ability to imbue you with the most improbably vivid, life-long memories. Indeed, my recollections of a precious clutch of childhood years spent …