LIVING A RALLYCROSS DREAM
On 3 July 2005, as an 18-year-old, I made my rallycross debut at Anglesey. With no prior mechanical knowledge and no family history of competing in motorsport, just getting to the event in a self-prepared car was, I felt, a huge achievement.
The main memory I have from that day is actually from the paddock. As I lined up for my first-ever practice session, Ford Escort rallycross Supercar driver Andy Grant pulled onto the pre-grid behind me. I was so excited to even just be lining up beside a four-wheel-drive, 600-horsepower rallycross Supercar. After all, Supercars are the creme de la creme of the discipline, the cars that all drivers aspire to sample.
Fast forward 16 years and, having largely given up competing in my own machines, through my career as a rallycross writer I’ve had amazing opportunities to undertake track tests in some of the best rallycross cars on the planet. Sebastien Loeb’s World RX event-winning, works-built Peugeot 208 in 2018 for Autosport, for example. That test was conducted at Lydden Hill. In December last year I struck a deal to
