I've spent the last couple of days out at the 'Ring watching the chaps from Pagani attempt to set a record lap time in the Zonda R. You'll get the full story in a future issue of evo but I thought you might like to see the few video clips I managed to get. They were only shot on my mobile, so you'll have to forgive the quality, but the noise comes across pretty well. Oh the noise. As Pagani had private track time for the record attempts it was wonderfully still and quiet as you waited for the R to come round. Then, long before the car hove into view, you'd catch snippets of V12 shriek carving its way towards you through the forrest. It defined spine-tingling.

There will be shouts, as there were with Ferrari's 599XX, that the Zonda R isn't a road car (or a homologated race car for that matter) and therefore its time is an irrelevance. But frankly any vehicle, no matter its provenance, capable of circulating the twists, turns bumps and bewilderments of the 'Ring in a time of 6min47sec deserves our praise. And so does the driver capable of piloting it...