So what does 0-100mph in 5.0sec feel like?

Instantaneous. Acceleration and braking, power delivery and gearchange, everything about the T1's performance is instantaneous. One moment you're trundling down the pit lane, less than five seconds later you're piling past 100mph and there's way more to come.

The V8 howls behind you and there's the heavy rush of air over your racing helmet. Gearchanges are imperceptible. The driver pulls on the paddle mounted behind the wheel, but there's no jerk, no judder through the chassis, just a relentless pile up of more speed. The only indication of a gearchange is the change in engine note, as if someone has fiddled with its volume level.

Braking is just as visceral. Off the gas and on the stoppers, and it feels like the car has driven into a two-foot pool of treacle. Speed is wiped off in the blink of an eye. It goes like this: 100mph - bang – 20mph. And, with an automatic blip of the throttle, you're back up to three figures once more. The T1 is just relentless.


What's it like around corners?

Caparo claims this thing can corner with a force of 3Gs, and I don't doubt them. There is no roll whatsoever, just like the effortless way the T1 handles through the bends - with utter focus, and without any dip and dive.

The driver lines up the T1 as if in an F1 car. At the kind of speeds he's pulling, there's no chance of backing off and adjusting the line mid-corner. With a flick of the wrist the T1 pounces into the corner, and the line had better be right, because the pace sucks you into the corner then warps you out the other side.

This car may be a prototype, but it feels incredibly focused, beautifully together. Its performance may be the sum of countless moving parts, but they have melded together to form a perfect, ballistic union.


Anything else?

The panoramic view only heightens the sensations. The V8 generates too much heat for the canopy to be in place during track work. There are no pillars, nothing but a low screen, so the view is perfect. And with the passenger's set-back position, you also get a perfect view of the driver's movements – his steering adjustment, his flicked gearchanges – which you'd have to crane your head to see in a regular passenger car. The only concession to luxury is a little leather padding.

A ride in the T1 is unlike any car, bar an F1 racer. It goes just like it looks. The closest experience is gunning a supercharged Ariel Atom. But even that can't compete with the T1's agility and immediacy.

There's only one thing better than riding in the T1. Driving it. And CAR Online will bring you that as soon as we can.