Budd plots return after Mini roll

Mini Se7en racer Daniel Budd has vowed to get back behind the wheel of a racing car as soon as possible following his horrendous crash at Thruxton recently.

The 36-year-old was competing at the Hampshire track’s 50th anniversary meeting earlier this month when his car was launched into a high-speed series of rolls along Woodham Hill.

His Mini spiralled over the barrier and collided with a marshals’ post. Miraculously, neither Budd nor any marshals were injured.

“I don’t know how many rolls we did but it came to rest facing the wrong way on the other side of the barrier,” recalled Budd, who is competing in his first full season of the Mini Se7en Championship.

“When I got out a marshal said ‘you hit a marshals’ post’ so I was worried that there was going to be people underneath the car.

“The accident was horrendous, the back and passenger side of the car were crushed and there were two holes in the roof.

“It has split and bent the cage, but the car was very well built and it did what it needed to do.

“It did scare me when it happened, I was genuinely upset looking at my car afterwards.”

Budd now plans to compete in the next round of the Mini Se7en Championship at Zandvoort on July 8 using brother Charlie’s spare car.