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GT World Championship winning teams HEXIS and Vita4One are among the eleven teams taking part in the inaugural Baku City Challenge situated close to the Caspian Sea; with a driver line-up including former F1 and CART champion Jacques Villeneuve, ex-F1 racer Jos Verstappen and multiple DTM champion Bernd Schneider.

In my last report I distinctly remember warning you all. There's a new kid in town. He's young. He's full of ambition. And he means business. He walks confidently through the paddock, yet is barely noticed by the regulars.

Twenty-five brake horse power doesn't sound like much of an improvement, and at first glance it makes little or no difference to the McLaren MP4-12C's performance figures, but there's one increment that tells the story about where that extra performance has been tucked away - 0-186 mph, which is now 1 second faster than before.