Veteran car driver David Steele has got back behind the wheel of a Bentley he raced 65 years ago.

Mr Steele, 85, was reunited with it for a three-lap parade of the Donington Park circuit for Bentleys with a racing history.

"It was tricky driving it after all those years, because cars built in the 1920s were very different from today's vehicles," he said. "The circuit too is now quite different."

Mr Steele renewed his links with the car thanks to an author researching the circuit's history.

"I was talking to the author and, through amazing luck, he was able to trace the car through ownership and service records to its present owner, a Robin Shrimpton, of Birmingham," said Mr Steele, of Bletchingdon, near Bicester.

Mr Steele first used the car, which was built in 1929, when he worked with the late Dick Wilcox, who ran a garage in Iver, Buckinghamshire. They adapted the Bentley for a 12-hour race at Donington in 1937.

Drivers had to notch up as many miles as possible and they achieved more than 400 miles.

Afterwards the car went back to Iver and during the Second World War the Government requisitioned it.

The present owner bought it in Wales in 1952, two years before Mr Steele founded a company near Abingdon to recruit staff for motor manufacturers worldwide.