Welcome to our PCOTY track notes. These are the stream-of-consciousness scrawlings from our resident hot shoe, editor-at-large Jethro Bovingdon, following his hot-lap sessions in each contender:

OK, so the 911 Carrera T is not a GT3. Darling of, well, the entire world and omnipresent on social media platforms to such an extent that it?s like all other cars cease to exist. What do you mean you don?t have a GT3 Touring with a manual gearbox in some shade of green or another" Are you a savage" Or stupid" Or homeless" Just take a look at your life choices, loser. Anyway, no, it?s not a GT3. But like all 911s, the T comes alive on track and is deeply immersive, incredibly durable, and has such depth of ability. It?s superb.
The most interesting comparison is with the Mustang, which just pipped the lap time of the T?almost entirely due to its massive and chewing gum-soft Trofeo RS tires as compared to the T?s plain old P Zeros. I really enjoyed the bruising, brute-force approach of the Mustang, but the Porsche?s fluidity and inherent agility and sharpness is a different and perhaps more enduring flavor. The control weights, the sweet linearity of the engine, the simply fabulous brakes, and the way you can use the weight in the rear firstly to point the nose into corners and then to squeeze the tread blocks into the track surface on exit is a kind of metaphysical poetry. Incredible.

Weaknesses" Well, the 7-speed manual ?box is good but not great, the st...