The Driver

Started racing in 1986 as a hobby. Built my own car which performed really well, so other racers started asking me to work on their cars. A hobby then turned into a business in 1988.

I stopped racing my own car then until 1993, and concentrated on customers cars. Building car after car that set national and European records and won numerous championships.

In 1993-1997 I started competing again at sportsman level with a 1964 Mercury Comet Super Gas car (9/90 index). Due to work commitments I didn't attend all championship rounds but was competitive, reaching several rounds, including Hockenheim Germany Nitro Olympics in 1996 (my car was the one used on the posters to advertise the 1997 event). The car attracted huge interest because of its three foot high wheelstands from the start line!

Also during this period, customer cars were being built and competing, amongst them, Wayne Saunders' 4 cylinder 2.21 Ford Probe, which set a world record for saloon 4 cylinder car of 7.5 secs at 180 mph in 1997. This prompted Ford of Detroit to commission us to build a Ford Focus in 1999 to compete in
America for 8 weeks and promote the launch of the new Focus in the U.S.A.