My first open-wheeled car was a Lotus 22, in fact it was one of the cars used in the filming of Grand Prix. When I first got the car it still had the Jordan BRM mock-up body attached, which was discarded, binned, replaced and restored to be a conventional Lotus 22. However, my first ever race was in my father’s D-type Jaguar. I was brought up with D-types, and despite racing many other exotic cars the D-type has always been…

Gary Pearson stretches his and the D-type JaguarÕs legs during a Goodwood Revival.
Photo: Roger Dixon