A friend and great inspiration to me died yesterday.

I got to know Dan Bayes online a few years ago. I don't know an awful lot about his life before that but I'm sure he was always car mad.

I'm finding it pretty hard to say anything much about him without appearing all sad and maudlin.

Dan had all sorts of cancers over the years. He had various bits of himself removed and spent more time in Hospital and on Chemotherapy and connected to the infernal bleep boxes than I would care to subject my worst enemy to.

He underwent this with an apparently enviably positive attitude and great dignity. If he ever was bitter, he never showed it.

He was 25.

Thanks Dan.