When Touring Cars ruled the world, the grandstands were packed and the heroes drove cars that looked like they belonged in the local supermarket car park. This throwback to the golden ’90s brings the thunder back to the hill at Goodwood Festival of Speed, where legends like the Alfa Romeo

Richard Hammond climbs into the Yangwang U9 Extreme, an electric hypercar producing nearly 3,000 horsepower and capable of over 300 mph, and immediately acknowledges the irony. After past high-speed crashes in a Rimac Automobili hypercar and a jet-powered dragster, he knowingly places himself back into the firing line of physics.