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STAGE CRAFT

The six hours from 5am on 15 August 2019. I’d like to tell you about them, although my reasoning is hardly honourable. You see, I chiefly want to tell myself about them, so when I get older and more decrepit I can pick up my copy of the magazine you hold in your hands right now and simply remember. Because I can’t believe how lucky I was. Every day since I have picked up my phone and watched two clips, one showing Hyundai’s WRC car doing a full stage launch, the other of it pinned and pivoting through a pair of corners. And I’m driving. And I have to pinch myself. Normally every story we do  involves compromise, it rarely pans out exactly how we want, and almost never exceeds our expectations, because we set them so high. But on this occasion…

It started back in March with a phone call

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