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TEAM BRIT SCALING THE MOUNTAIN WITH DISABLED RACERS

“Britain leads the way. There’s more disabled racing drivers in the UK than the rest of the world put together, and over half of those started with us.”

The words of Team Brit founder Dave Player. “Motorsport is the only sport where disabled and able bodied compete together on a level playing field,” he continues to Motorsport News, “and in the Paralympics you’ve got 10 different classes for different disability, so this is the very unique thing about motorsport. With technology, able bodied and disabled can race together.”

You may well have noticed Team Brit’s cars competing on British circuits in recent times. The team grew from a karting charity called KartForce, providing team endurance racing for injured military veterans.

Team Brit, the all-disabled car racing team, formed in 2015. It raced in Fun Cup then the BMW 116 Trophy. Now it competes across several Britcar classes, and has won twice in class this year with Bobby Trundley andAaron Morgan racing anAston Martin Vantage V8. Now the team is set

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