Category: Motorsport
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How to Get Started in Motorsport
Getting into motorsport isn’t especially difficult, expensive, or even all that time-consuming. Of course – there are a few things you need to sort out first: Access to a car of some description. Always handy. Any car will do – there’ll be a motorsport to suit, though levels of preparation and costs may vary. A…
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How I started in motorsport
I’ve been involved in motorsport since the end of 2002 after my inaugural sprint at New Brighton. Myself and my friend Gordon Holmes (a champion Autotester) set off in a pair of Golf GTIs with the aim of finishing approximately mid-field in our very standard, very ordinary cars. It would have gone a lot better…
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Aintree, 24th June 2006 – Pushing harder and harder… yet…
When you compete in motorsport one of the peculiar things is the change in your perception of what’s possible. You do an amazing run and you just think to yourself “there’s no way I could go any quicker there.” And then next time out, you go that bit quicker again. And you wonder where on…
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Of broken toelinks (Anglesey May and June 2006)
A bit of a long time since the last update, but here we go….. At the end of May I did the MGOC Anglesey weekend sprint and, on the day before I did a trackday at the same place. All seemed great at the start of the trackday – the Elise going beautifully and showing…
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Aintree, 22nd April 2006
Ok – I’ll admit it…. I’ve become so used to making Aintree my own that I was getting complacent. Last year Gary Thomas was running me close but I stayed ahead, kept my record, and was happy. Ish. But I knew the car wasn’t perfect – roll oversteer made it a sometimes tricky proposition and…
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Pre Aintree Jitters
Right…this is my first ever posting using a mobile phone. And it must be said that my usual 69wpm typing has rather gone astray but it ain’t half bad either… Anyway, it’s the night before Aintree and I’m more nervous than usual due to lack of prep and track time. The car has been set…