Test driving the ex Dyson Racing Lola Mazda AER B12/60 LMP1 car, I absolutely understand what multiple sports car champion, Johnny Mowlem, meant when he said it was "like a fighter plane with wheels". Immense performance, hugely aerodynamic, and astonishingly quick. Yet surprisingly not a difficult car to drive. Join me onboard this extraordinary racing car to find out why.

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As sportscar racing heralds a new era of Hypercars and LMDh prototypes, we wave goodbye to LMP1 - a category responsible for some of the most exciting and other-worldly racing cars ever conceived.

But thanks to a thriving post historic racing series, these cars needn't be consigned to museums just yet. Masters Endurance Legends caters for Le Mans style prototypes & GTs from 1995 to 2016 and, with full championships in both Europe and the US, amateur racers have an extraordinary opportunity to enjoy machinery that so recently represented the absolute pinnacle of sports car racing.

To contend for outright honours however, you'll need to be in the top class. And while there are some former factory team thoroughbreds on the Masters grid that should by rights be hard to beat, there are a select few alternatives used by crafty privateer teams in period to keep the big boys honest - just as they continue to do in vintage racing today.

And this is one of those cars: the 2012 Dyson Racing Lola Mazda B12/60, fitted with an AER designed, Mazda two litre turbo engine outputting around 530bhp. Campaigned in period by the Dyson Racing Team in the IMSA American Le Mans Series, the car achieved five podiums in the hands of Bentley Le Mans winner, Guy Smith, alongside multiple Sportscar champions Chris Dyson and Johnny Mowlem.

Since then it is enjoying a whole new lease of life in vintage racing (historic racing to us Europeans) having taken a whopping five outright wins thus far in the Masters Endurance Legends series.