A bright yellow indemnity form is pushed towards me, pen resting on top of it. The content is brief, a sole paragraph outlining the fact that there’s a reasonable chance I could be about to die and it’ll be nobody’s fault except my own.

It’s the kind of paragraph that should stop me in my tracks. A paragraph to fire up the alarm bells. Do I really want to risk my life? But instead my eyes flash over the contents, ignoring words like ‘crash’ and ‘maim’, before settling on something far more interesting – the large logo at the top. A logo that says, simply, Lotus. I sign. And then I smile like a schoolboy.

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