“For me, life is movement,” says Walter Röhrl. “If I have to be somewhere sitting without any movement I feel sick, in my life I just want to be under pressure.” I’ve met Röhrl many times, his role at Porsche meaning he’s more often than not driving the car I’ll be trying to follow around a track on various product launches. We’ve just been doing so around Ascari Race Resort, Röhrl admitting that even here, lapping endlessly as the world’s press try in vain to keep up, he enjoys himself.
He’s just as happy to have some ballast on board too, so any time he’s around I’ll jump in the passenger seat. Doing so means I’ve been lucky enough to have witnessed his driving in everything from a 911 Turbo on a frozen lake to a seven-anda-half minute lap around the Nürburgring in a 997 GT2 RS. Well, there was some traffic that day, and that ballast…