Unsurprisingly, much of the discourse surrounding the Bugatti Chiron has been focused on numbers, because it makes many big ones. Powerful ones. Ones that are capable of sending you into a mild stupor. After all, a car that produces 1,479bhp and is capable of hitting a 261mph top speed deserves plenty of your attention.

Though it had to deliver a combination of haymakers. The car that preceded it pretty much rewrote the book on modern performance and engineering. To paraphrase Churchill, Bugatti shaped the Veyron, but afterwards, it shaped Bugatti. And us.

To follow in the footsteps of a car Top Gear magazine named the greatest from the last 20 years then, requires something herculean. You’ve seen Mr Harris drive one, so now immerse yourself in some interesting stats around the build of the car that will shape the future…