I still remember the shock of hearing about it standing in my kitchen 16 years ago. I’d been to that years festival of speed at goodwood, and watched Colin driving around the rally stage in an Impreza and his own r4. I had photos, I’d borrowed my wife’s digital camera. Before I got the chance to upload them to the laptop a friend borrowed the camera and wiped all the photos!

A few years back I went again and had a good chat with Jimmy. I’m terrible at chatting to people and even worse with people I don’t know and have some fame or notability about them. Jimmy probably thought I was just another Colin fan boy, but what I neglected to tell him was my favourite driver when I was a lad was actually Jimmy himself, until a young lad called Colin came along and started smashing it.

Caught up with him again later in the day, this time with my wife by my side who just struck up conversation and a rapport with Jimmy in a way I never can.