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At the start of the new millennium, Ford was hoping to turn the plucky Stuart Grand Prix team into the British Ferrari,

rebranding it as Jaguar with the goal of winning races, championships and creating a sea of green in the grandstands.

But the much-hyped project stumbled out of the gate in that first year and frankly never recovered.

So here on Bring Back V-Tens, we are diving deep into one of our most requested episode topics,

a full-season look back at the first season of Jaguar in 2000.

And joining me, Glenn Freeman, to travel back in time more than a quarter of a century.

A two men who were involved in the Jaguar team in different ways.

We've got the technical director of the team, Gary Anderson,

and Andrew Vanderberg, who was working on the Jaguar Racing website.

Quite a new phenomenon back then. Gary, thanks for joining us to look back on a year that I know wasn't the most enjoyable for you.

I imagine it's going to be hard to boil down your memories to answer this first question succinctly.

But let's have a go.

When you think back to Jaguar in 2000, what's the first thing that comes to mind?

Well, we were coming from a fairly successful year in 1999, which was Stuart Grand Prix.

We had Ribbons Barakella and Johnny Herbert driving, and we scored decent points,

and I think it was fourth in the championship, which was a very good end result really for the team.

Johnny won in Nuremberg Ring, maybe a bit of luck because a lot of others didn't win.

I think that's the best way of putting it, but at the end of the day you make your own luck.

And the end result, I was very proud of it because Jackie Stewart last stood on the podium

at the German Grand Prix at Nuremberg Ring when he won it.

And so to stand up there again, whether it was, I don't know how many years later, 30 years later

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