John Cleland

CHAMPION 1989, 1995

One of the outstanding races for me was in 1998 at Donington Park. There was all this fuss and nonsense about Ford hiring Nigel Mansell to race in the Ford Mondeo – but in the event, I kicked his arse!

It was a race in very tricky conditions and it was very hard to judge the grip levels, but everyone was going for it and there were some of the best tin-top drivers giving it everything they had. It was a full-on race and, of course, it had a great, worthy winner.

My other overriding memory would have been the factory Nissan Primera driver Kieth

O’dor leaving the circuit over the barriers at the Craner Curves during the TOCA Shootout in

1992. He had gone so far off he had to borrow a pass from a punter to get back in…