MIKE CONWAY

At the very start of my career, I had a relationship with Martin Donnelly; my dad had helped out some drivers before with sponsorship who had been driving for Martin like Jamie Spence. My dad was always into motorsport and so we ended up driving in Formula Ford, kind of Class B in my first year of 2001, the junior version, and I really didn’t like them when I first got into Formula Ford.

I went from a go-kart which was light, with super-sticky tyres and lots of power, and got into this