As a kid, I must have watched Alan de Cadenet’s iconic Victory by Design series a hundred times, particularly the episode about Maserati’s sublime 300S.

I remember being utterly captivated by the shot of the great man scything down a perilous mountain road, man and machine utterly composed, the car animated and alive. The 300S was Maserati at its peak in the mid-1950s — a front-engined sports-racing car designed to take on Ferrari and Jaguar at the highest level, and driven in period by some of the greatest names in the sport. Light, powerful and beautifully conceived, it has since become one of the defining cars of its era.

In this film, I finally get my chance behind the wheel of one of these extraordinary cars. This is the drive of my dreams.