RENAULT 5
Our car earns its racing wings at the waterlogged Watergate Bay Sprint
MILEAGE 11,307 WHY WE’RE RUNNING IT To discover if Renault’s retro-infused EV hit is as good to live with as it is to look at
Pop Yellow 5 shone in the Cornish gloom, coming third in its class
It wasn’t the most sensible or logical thing I’ve ever done, entering my Renault 5 long-termer in the Watergate Bay Sprint, a Cornish motorsport event on a closed public road between Newquay and Watergate Bay, about a month ago.
I mean, how well could a brand-new, bog-standard baby EV be expected to do in a proper, Motorsport UK-approved competitive event against 70-odd conventional cars, many of them developed over years for this very purpose?