Biography

Don't really remember drifting into go-karting, I guess one-day I just noticed that those crappy indoor event trophies were piling-up and thought, blimey, I'm quite good at this.

I'd always been a bit of a speed-junkie, spending most of my summers on a series of bikes (currently a Honda Fireblade) and most of my winters on a series of snowboards (currently a Burton BMC56). I think I'd been looking for something a bit more perennial, and karting was it.

Got a taste for the outdoors in '99 at Buckmore Park with Toby and a few other mates, enjoying one of Paul's corporate freebies. Have vague memories of trashing our Prokart in a red-flag incident at the bottom hairpin. Think we finished a mildly shameful mid-field, although the corporate competition was stiff.

Competition was stiffer still in the recent Mercator F1 Challenge at Kings Cross Raceway. Three three-hour endurance races, fifty teams of four men (Paul, Toby, myself and Tim Rothwell), first-prize - an all expenses paid grand-prix weekend in Monaco, second-prize bugger-all. Guess where we came...

Balanced last years' indoor freebie with a season driving for KH3 in the Club-100 Corporate Challenge. Cut my teeth in a direct-drive 100 at Whilton Mill, learning with Protrain. Worked my way from (comparitively) slow to (dazzlingly) competitive in six races across Rye House, Clay Pigeon and finally Buckmore Park.

Since then there's been no looking back. Started spending more time and cash hanging-out with Toby and Paul, and now here we are; wallets empty, a single lonely looking bronze on the mantlepiece and two Rotax Max's in the garage.

Roll-on 2002...