I’ve never really seen the point to blogs before – why would you want to read about someone else’s life? ‘Today I made tomato soup.’ Fascinating. It’s like Twitter, but with 10 times more words, which makes it 10 times less bearable. But then I discovered project blogs where people document building something silly like

Unless you’ve been living in a cave recently you’ll know that during the winter Snetterton was undergoing redevelopment. Whatever Jonathan Palmer’s real motives were for the redevelopment, the end result is the track is now a mile longer with an infield section and a load of spectator banking. When tracks are reprofiled alarm bells usually

The old livery was based on a 1967 Eagle Weslake which in the eyes of many was one of the most beautiful Formula 1 cars ever made. It also featured in the racing simulation Grand Prix Legends which is responsible for my addiction to racing. To keep in with the Eagle theme my car also bears

I’ve posted a couple of entries to the blog over the winter, which were mostly silly things to be fair, but each little thing that was done didn’t warrant it’s own post so I decided to clump them all together. So what’s new, what’s changed and what broke? Thankfully nothing broke, apart from the starter

In our constant pursuit for improvements we have come up with new race seat which vastly improves upon a number of key areas found in a traditional race seat. Comfort When you were last sitting on the beach how comfy were you? Now you can take the comfort of your beach holiday into your race car. No more

I wouldn’t normally post anything about the van, but this one deserves a mention for the insanity of it all. At 140,000 miles the van required it’s second timing belt change, a job which is normally quite expensive but a lot cheaper when you have an Ian around. We had a rough idea of what

Once we had endured the very long process of changing the gearbox oil using the worlds thinnest tube, and then replacing and bleeding the brake fluid in the MR2 it all needed bottling up ready to be taken to the recycling centre. Predictably we filled up the spare bottles and still had some left, so I grabbed

Don’t let anyone put you off fixing something with glue, but not Pritt Stick obviously – you’d struggle to fix an origami model with that stuff. The amount of stick I got (if you excuse the pun) about attempting to fix my front bumper after the Brands Hatch argy bargy was quite considerable. Ian thought

Last year at Brands Hatch the track was wet enough to fit paddles to your car, but my result from that race has yet to be bettered, so the pressure was on not to make a mess of things this year, especially with Jon coming down to offer his expertise in criticism if I cock it

During the last outing at Mallory when the engine temperature went off the scale we discovered the problem was a large number of holes in the radiator, which were successfully patched using chewing gum, gasket paste and some more chewing gum. The cause of all the smaller overheating problems previously suddenly explained. Instead of using a scrapheap radiator

You know you have some damage when you can’t open the passenger door without it fouling the front wing. This was the result of contact through Gerrards at Mallory Park when someone on my outside squeezed me to the inside against the grass, and then tried to squeeze me more. The grass at that speed