The Rosses have an idyllic garden. Birdsong intertwines with a gentle blub-blub from the water feature. Bees flit across the dahlias. Across the paddock, behind the hedgerow lie three Renault 11s split clean in half. Railway wheels to fit an Audi A8. And next to a faded blue Chevy Lacetti equipped with a roll cage, there’s something that looks suspiciously like a Boudica chariot spike.
Peter Ross catches me eying his homemade medieval weapon outside the workshop concealed at the bottom of his garden. “Yes, that’s off Jeremy’s police car,” he nods. First episode of Series 11, to save you looking. He then hands me an oversized digital stopwatch. It looks strangely familiar. “Is this…?”
“The stopwatch JC used to time his lap of the Nürburgring in a diesel Jag……
