Reason to love Mondays

An invitation to drive this magnificent supercar around the Kyalami race track made my week. FOR ADRENALINE JUNKIES

Monday is that day of the week you start dreading from about the time the sun rises at the start of the weekend.

It’s the day that normally signals the start of another torturous week grinding out a living. You do this just so your kids can go to school and you can put food on the plate in front of you at night, while you wait for the grim reaper to finally put you out of your misery one day before you enter the adult nappy phase of your life.

I know this sounds somewhat horrific and exceptionally negative, but that was my point. Mondays suck, but I have so much to be grateful for. I do a job I love, and this past Monday, this love came in the form of an invite from Lamborghini South Africa to drive their new Aventador Roadster S at the Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit.

So instead of praying that time would stand still over the weekend, I wished my weekend away, in anticipation of being let loose on a world-class race track in a howling, R8 695 000, 6.5-litre, naturally aspirated V12 supercar, that churns out 544kW of power and 690Nm of torque.

And, make no mistake, this is no “only good for posing” roadster. The car weighs only 50kg more than the slightly more hardcore Coupe model, produces the same power, and this translates into Lamborghini claiming that their topless model can hit 100km/h in a mere 3.0 seconds, 200km/h in 9.0 seconds, and 300km/h in only 25 seconds, while the top speed is quoted at bug splattering 350km/h.

Perhaps, at this stage, you