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May 2020 Issue 562 Some things are worth getting out of bed at 4:00am for. Not holidays, that’s for sure – I’d rather pay more or change the destination to avoid stupid o’clock flights. But cars, particularly those I haven’t driven before, that’s different. Which is why I found myself, bleary-eyed, in North London, nosing my BMW daily driver past electric security gates to an underground car park. Amid sombre BMWs and Mercedes lurking between concrete pillars, our Ferrari F430 Spider cover car enticed me over. Owner Marek Izmajlowicz was away on business but he was happy to let me collect the keys from his girlfriend and disappear off to our studio for the day. With the car, not the girlfriend. The sound of that flat-plane crankshaft V8 erupting sharply into life was…