Continuing their search for Britain’s Best Driver’s Car of 2016, the boys from Autocar hit the track this time with the new BMW M2 sports coupe. This, to all intents and purposes, is the definitive track test of the M2 because, for starters, it’s conducted by some of the most highly skills journalists in the world, and also because its goal is not to see how fast the thing is but rather how entertaining it is to drive.

So let’s join the boys on the race track as they wrestle the BMW M2 around the circuit trying not to grin too much:

The M2 would have a great shot at winning this competition were it not for some of the other cars present in this company: Ferrari 488 GTB, McLaren 675LT, Honda NSX, and Porsche 911 R.