A numbers game
WELCOME TO A VERY special edition of Octane. Special in many ways, of course, as we hope they all are. There is Glen Waddington’s cover story on Newport Pagnell’s fastest and finest, which is 20 years old, but looks like it would still be a winner if they launched it tomorrow. Meanwhile, Mark Dixon catches up with one of the most powerful people in the motoring world globally, in his natural habitat. Not the boardroom, but the paddock at Goodwood, where Jim Farley lets his grassroots petrolheadonism flow freely. We also have a world first, driving both the first road car from the astonishing Glickenhaus operation and also its battleworn Le Mans racer. Then there is the Porsche 911 Targa prototype reunited with the man who used to run it as…