I think in the good old days of carburettors there may have been an issue – with the way carbs work you cannot get ideal fuel air mix throughout the rev range and all throttle openings, so there was the possibility of things coking up at slow speeds due to over fuelling and carbon build up. But with modern day engines with fully sequential fuel injection you can get the fueling right all the time, so the engine is happy however you drive it.

Just seems a waste really, but that is the paradox of high performance cars – you pay a huge premium and can’t use the performance that you’re paying the premium for – nobody is a good enough driver to exploit it for starters, and the roads simply can’t handle it.