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We were handed the keys to a 690bhp Artura and given one-to-one tuition at one of the world's best race tracks

You dream about the chance to live out your racing driver fantasies, and mine is about to be realised. The venue for my debut track experience: Silverstone. This is like kicking a football for the first time at Wembley.

McLaren is hosting one of its exclusive Pure owners' experience days, and I've been invited. To prepare, I spent the day before studying videos of races at the circuit and driving it virtually. But any veneer of confidence this may have given me evaporates as I arrive at the track.