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Right at home in the BTCC

was never a small boy – I was Mr Round, I was huge, I was so big I couldn’t fit in a kart! Tillett, who made the seats, couldn’t make one big enough for me to fit in. So I started off drifting Ford Escort Mk2s at eight years old, and at that age we went with family friends to Brands Hatch to watch the British Touring Car Championship. I absolutely loved it. We sat with a picnic blanket to the side of Druids where you can see the cars coming down

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