I’ve always been interested in anything automotive.

I started competing in 03 with my Dad in our ex Caterham Academy car, we campaigned this for 2 years at various Yorkshire speed hillclimb events such as Oliver’s Mount and The Harewood Hillclimb, modifying the car to roadsports b spec.

In 05 we changed cars to a Hillclimb spec Caterham R400m, we entered this in the Harewood Championship, both finishing in the top 10, with various class wins. We also went further a field entering events from the Midlands Speed Hillclimb Championship such as Loton Park nr Shrewsbury and to Prescott nr Cheltenham.

05 was my best season to date with a very competitive car and we aimed to build on this for 06 with some engine tweaks from QED ready to attack the championship and break some records.

My Dad died in Jan 06.  I still prepped the car up for the 06 season, and had allsorts of trouble with it, it was devilishly fast but never ran right in anger, the throttle stuck open in the first event of 06 at Harewood resulting in serious and expensive repairs that were to take 2 months.

I the mean time I bought a ’88 205 GTI and campaigned this for fun really, the car wasn’t fast but I was competing. 

Caterham came back mid may, but it was too expensive a toy now to risk bending again, it was frustrating have a class winner in the garage everyday and taking the ‘slow’ one racing to not winning anything.

Later in the season another faster ‘90 205 GTI was purchased with some engine goodies fitted such as twin 45 dellortos and tricker cams, the car was still no where near the others in the class, but again it was fun.  The highlight of the year was a trackday at RAF Marham, the car was so much fun, embarrassing much faster, more expensive machinery.

Big changes were then made for the 07 season, everything in the racing stable was sold off and an ex clio cup car was purchased.  We’ve tidied  it up with a respray and re conned wheels, we’ve also made a few changes on the way such as the Hoosier Tyres, polycarbonate windows etc. to make it more suited to hillclimbing.

The first championship event on April 15th saw us finishing 5th in class which was respectable given the competition, with was a steep learning curve with both car and driver able to give more.