Wow Bernard! At LEAST 40? Are you sure he wasn't a neutrino on the way to Italy? You sound like the commentators on some of the UK police driver programmes, waxing apoplectic about remarkably skilful driving of some fleeing miscreant. Some of the pursued are twerps, but sometimes you see some bloke who you think might have been another Lewis Hamilton with the right chance - and the commentators don't seem to be able to tell the difference.

Steve - I've been a petrol head since a while before the first TVR Tuscan V8SE was the king of the UK roads, driving (on private land) since I was 13. I know within inches how fast any of my 3 much loved Volvos is - with or without the van on.