"For me it is fascinating because you have got
BMW knocking on the door and you have even got
Red Bull and Adrian Newey's team with
Mark Webber starting to do well too. I am off to Turkey now [this weekend] and I am going to enjoy that. It is a hell of a circuit and even though it is a new track, it has the notorious turn 8 there. I think it is going to be a very, very exciting year and I am waiting for
McLaren to bite back and make a little bit of a jump, which I am sure they will, and really fight back against
Ferrari."
As for the 'Mille Miglia - Then and Now' evening itself, which featured Sir
Stirling Moss and celebrity
BBC chef James Martin, who will take in this year's edition of the Italian endurance race, Jardine felt it had been 'superb'.
"It has been a bit of nostalgia, mixed with legends and current
Formula 1 people. We have had all sorts of people turn out because the greatest legend of them all, Sir Stirling Moss OBE was here talking about, what was in my opinion, one of the greatest wins ever in his career, the 1955 Mille Miglia.
"Cars International have recently discovered one of his road cars, which was supplied by Mercedes GB and which he used for promotional purposes leading up to the Mille Miglia. We showed him all the pictures of him driving this car in the snow at
Brands Hatch in 1955 and so on. Linking that car to him and getting him to shares his memories of the great event was very enjoyable.
"But that was the 'Then' and then we had the 'Now' with James Martin, the
BBC chef, who is going to do the Mille Miglia, nostalgia retro event. He will be doing that in about six day's time.
"He took advice from Stirling and came up on stage. It was really a lovely mixture of the history and the current modern day people, like James, who just loves his motoring and motor sport."
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