JORDAN TAKES A VERY SPECIAL TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE

The rain at Silverstone in late-December was relentless, but there was no way that this appointment was going to be missed. Mike Jordan was about to be reunited with his favourite race car from his personal history.

Jordan, father of 2013 British Touring Car title winner Andrew and the 2001 British GT champion, had spent two years in the TVR Tuscan Challenge in 1999 and 2000. The seven-time Tuscan race winner had spent months painstakingly restoring his original race car, and the test session was the ultimate iteration of friends reunited.

The path to getting his backside into the cockpit of his very own 4.5-litre rocketship was a convoluted one. But, then again, wasn’t everything which revolved around the TVR Tuscan Challenge?

This tale involved his former on-track Tuscan rival Michael Caine, who