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Minis have always been – and look always to be – a major part of Jordon Savidge’s life. “My first word was Mini and it all started from there,” he says with a laugh. “My Dad, my other half, Jane, and her family are into Minis. I probably bought my first when I was about ten or eleven, for £200. It was a little 1990 Racing Green and the original plan was that I was going to race them – I was going to build it to do a proper race series, not a grass track series. Ad then you look into the financial side of it and you realise...”

With youthful racing ambitions shelved, it didn’t mean that Jordon was going to consider anything else when it came to his first road car. “When it