![]() ![]() This comes as a shock to a lot of people, but on test days you simply don’t have the time to hoon about. And finally, you rarely get the opportunity. Get the car a few degrees sideways and you’ll most likely end up facing the wrong way. Explaining to the team boss that you’ve bent the car because you were trying to powerslide out of a chicane won’t go down well! Secondly, racing cars, and Formula Fords in particular, have no steering lock. There’s a few reasons for this.įirstly, racing is expensive and you don’t want to take more risks than you need to. But racing never really teaches you to take a car beyond its natural limits. Maybe that’s because they think that all racing drivers have the innate ability to fling a car sideways and hold it on the lock stops like a hero. In fact, I think quite a few of them expect me to be the Keiichi Tsuchiya of TeamCT (in fact it’s actually our resident intern Milky Diamonds). Due to my racing experience, many of my friends and colleagues have asked if I can drift. I stopped racing in 2013, and although I’d only spent a couple of seasons in single seaters, it helped develop my driving skills immeasurably. ![]() I was very grateful to have been given these opportunities because I knew that due to financial pressures, they wouldn’t necessarily last. It’s allowed me to race at a variety of British tracks and has given me access to a few high performance road cars such as the featherweight Lotus Exige and the portly but powerful E60 BMW M5. I’ve been very fortunate in recent years to have been given the opportunity to race in the BRSCC Formula Ford Championship. ![]()
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