All you need is a van & a plan
The very same weekend that I agreed the deal on the new car, I also found another Renault, also built in 2007 as it happens. Only this one won't be hurtling up les courses de côte, it will be carrying everything…
Next season’s car
I'm very excited, and a little nervous too. The last time I felt like this was skydiving in NZ, hanging outside the plane with my backside dangling in the breeze and nothing to hold onto, strapped to my instructor whose surname…
The end of an era…
Midway through July I went to the Channel Islands with a group of good friends from my class to compete in the British Hillclimb rounds that take in Bouley Bay & Val de Terres. Every summer there's a whole crowd that make…
Logistics, vans & goodbye to bad hair
So there seem to be a couple of avenues open to any willing pilote étranger - one involves ferries and lots of driving, the other is slightly more jet-set and involves leaving the car somewhere in France and flying with a low cost…
I need a different car – but what?
Much as I love the Westfield there was no way I could actually enter it in an FFSA championship (French equivalent of the MSA). In France there is a list of production cars homologated for competition in class GT de…
So the question – why do I want to race in France?
Long ago, before I even first started hillclimbing in my Peugeot 205, I've always wanted to race in Europe - the hills there are so much longer, so much faster, there seems to be no silencing at all and it just looks incredible.…