“The key to everything we do is weight,” explains new Donkervoort boss Denis Donkervoort. “The less weight you carry, the less weight you have to stop, turn and accelerate, and the less fuel you use and the more intimate the car can be.”

Mercifully, we haven’t had to wait that long for the fruit of this philosophy. A year after taking over from his father, Donkervoort Jr has delivered his opus to lightweighting: the new-from-the-ground-up, 750kg Donkervoort F22 supercar.

It takes not just a page from Gordon Murray’s philosophy then, but the whole book. Donkervoort has always proudly and deliberately treaded lighter than others in the supercar game, and the first all-new Donkervoort for a generation is no different. And it really is new. There’s not a single nut or bolt carried over from its predecessor.

At the car’s heart sits a tubular steel and carbon-fibre hybrid chassis, that’s not only exceptionally lightweight, but boasts 100 per cent more torsional rigidity over the car it succeeds, the similarly insectile D8 GTO. Such low weight allows Donkervoort to claim a “quantum leap” in handling and suspension accuracy. And g-force, claimed at 2.15g versus the old one’s pedestrian… 2g. 

Indeed, “the F22 is not all about horsepower or speed,” Donkervoort said….