Let me begin with an apology: sorry. I know you’ve heard about how great the Cayman GT4 is a million times before, but if you can bear it, or have somehow missed all previous episodes, here is the million-and-first recount of its brilliance.

It’s born of the fact that I was feeling cheated; every time the GT4 had made an appearance at the office, I’d somehow missed the opportunity to have a go. So, while speaking to one of the nice chaps at Porsche, I got out the violin and played a sorrowful tune, something along the lines of: "I was robbed."

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If anyone ever tells you that whinging and whining doesn’t work, they’re wrong, because last week a bright yellow GT4 pitched up in the car park. Not being a violent man, I pushed and elbowed everyone out of the way, grabbed the keys and shot off for the weekend, deciding to deal with the fallout, and HR, on Monday.

Saturday was cold and very wet, and the Michelin Pilot Cup Sport 2 tyres seemed well outside their operating window. All the GT4 wanted to do was understeer, and if I tried to correct that with a dab of throttle it turned into catastrophic understeer, or cataclysmic oversteer.

I knew it was the tyres, but there was a bit of me questioning what all the fuss had been about. What we had here was a Cayman with a ridiculous wing that was not far off undriveable.

Waking up on Sunday to sunlight streaming through the curtains, I decided to have another crack. I went for a blast, giving it some beans after making a concerted effort to get some heat into those tyres on the now thankfully dry road. Oh God, what a difference a day makes.

This was the GT4 I had heard about, and it was coming alive on every sensory level. The tactile Alcantara steering wheel was loading up in my hands as I guided the pointy front end between apexes, and now the Michelins were digging in, offering the grip I’d longed for a day before.

At the point when the front tyres could do no more, there was a newfound progression to how they let go, and I could compensate by bringing the rear around without disastrous consequences. In fact, using the tightness of the GT4's rear diff and the deftness of its throttle pedal, even I – whose car control is along the same lines as Animal’s drum playing in the Muppets - was confidently maintaining a few degrees of rear slip angle while hammering hard out of corners.