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He’s always raced Morgans “I started racing in the Morgan Challenge maybe 10 years ago. I’ve always enjoyed sportscars and the odd trackday but it was only later in life when I had the opportunity to go racing. I had a road-going Morgan and took it on a trackday and got propositioned by one of the race preparers to have a go. It took off from there and that led to hillclimbing and sprinting and two years later to racing. I raced a +8 in the Morgan Challenge.”

This car came back from Australia “This is my third racing Morgan and I bought it last year. It was the first +8 imported into Australia back in 1969. For the last 10 or 15 years it has been raced in historic racing in Australia. It was brought back to the UK a year ago. It needed rebuilding to UK historic specification but it has always been a right-hand -drive car.”

He made a strong debut “Snetterton last weekend was my first time in it, running in Historic Road Sports. I tested on Friday and that was really my first time out and I was more surprised than anybody to be on the podium. I’ve raced quite a lot before but I’ve had a couple of years off and so Snetterton was my first race for over two years.”

He’s raced at Spa “I raced another historic +8 at Spa when we had the Eau Rouge Trophy within the Classic Six Hours and I really enjoyed that. I fancied a change and this car is eligible for all sorts of things and is competitive. It is road legal and has an MOT. I have done a few miles on the road in it, but it’s a bit of a handful.”

The Silverstone Classic features “We’ll do some more Historic Road Sports races in it this year and try and beat Kevin Kivlochan. It is 50 years of the +8 this year and we have a Road Sports race at the Silverstone Classic and we could have as many as eight of them on the grand prix circuit. I sell in-flight entertainment systems for the aviation industry, and I look after Russia and Eastern Europe so I travel quite a lot. We also have two children so I can’t go racing every weekend.”