My first ever track day in my Team HARD Volkswagen Racing Cup Car was absolutely awesome. I got to meet a lot more people in Team HARD and had an amazing day on the track. The start of the day was so exciting. We arrived at Brands Hatch and saw my car for the first time. […]
Yesterday Reuters shared an article by Alan Baldwin called Karting gives hope to desperate dads. …costs at the top level have escalated to the point where some parents are reportedly spending six figure sums annually to ensure their 13 or 14-year-olds get the best equipment, opportunities and testing. I have written about this before. The Reuters article […]
Motorsport doesn’t work the way a lot of people seem to think. You see the news stories about drivers being signed to teams and think “wow, that person is a professional racing driver”! Most racing drivers who get any money get it from family at first and commercial sponsors will come many years later! Most of […]
A Drive To Drive, Crowd Funding, money in motorsport, VW Racing Cup
If you hadn’t heard the news, as of 1st of December 2014 I was signed to Team HARD’s Young Driver Programme for 2015 and beyond! I’ll be starting out in the VW Racing Cup in a Golf GTiR Cup Car. This is a massive step for me and I couldn’t be taking it without the support of […]
Next year I will be racing in the VW Racing Cup. I know! I’ll be driving a VW Golf GTiR Cup Car!! 250bhp under my right foot. That’s more than 10 times the power I’m used to in a kart. Karting teaches you a lot about racing. Most people think it’s just the race craft […]
I was born in Hertfordshire in 1999 and spent my earliest years trying to find out what it was that I loved to do. I tried everything that people said I should try. I loved cars and motor racing, I had a crazy collection of cars and loved Scalextric. Even this didn’t make anyone think […]
ARDS (Car-Racing License), Car Racing, Experience, Featured, History, Karting, Media, Team-HARD
