It 's the result of decades of honed craft , countless hours spent in laboratories sweating over intractable engineering problems , working out how to defy physics by shifting an inordinate amount of weight around corners at high speed , how to send 500lb ft of torque through the tyres without the car digging a hole the size of the Albert Hall and , above all , how to make people gasp , blink , laugh and cry out in excitement as a flash of metal and power thunders by .