Gordon Murray owned XP3, the oldest surviving F1, until recently. “I suppose I did about 30,000 miles in F1s. I sold it because it became untenable to own. When values edged up to £20 million, just the price of insurance….
“Before that, I used to take it out on a Sunday morning. But if you’ve got a £20 million car you think twice about putting someone in it in the rain and showing them a fourth gear slide, so even though I didn’t want it to, it made me think twice."