Darkest Before The Dawn…Especially With No Lights. 2022 Exeter Trial
We’re sitting in a little lane in south Devon. It’s early January and just after 7am. It’s dark. The engine stopped five minutes ago and we coasted down a hill…
Read moreKeep Calm & Carry On : The Edinburgh Trial 2021
It’s raining hard and the lanes to Middleton-By-Youlgrave in the English Peak District are a chain of puddles through dripping hedges and overhanging trees. It’s mid afternoon on Saturday October…
Read more“Sorry To Bother You But…” Exmoor Clouds Trial 2021
September 5th . It’s supposed to be red hot and balmy but on the north Somerset coast, Exmoor is shrouded in mist and the temperature has been distinctly average for…
Read moreTHE PRESIDENTS TRIAL – Nothing To Do With Politics… Honest!
It’s a rather unfortunate title for a motor sport event these days. If you Google “President’s Trial” you find a lot of stuff about impeachment before way, waaaaaaay down the…
Read moreIt Already Seems So Long Ago : Clee Hills And Cotswold Clouds Trials 2020
This week we would, if things had gone normally, have been getting organised for the LANDS END TRIAL in which Carlotte and I were entered with our Suzuki X90. Of…
Read more“It’s Trialling Jim, But Not As We Knew It” Three Car Trial Adventures
Untill November , taking part in car trials was a strictly Dad-and-Daughter adventure. Ever since I got back into competitive motoring I have been accompanied by my daugher Charlotte. We’ve …
Read moreThe Big Adventure : Lands End Trial 2019
They call the last “observed section” on the Lands End Trial OLD STONEY. It’s a little old cart track off the road that runs inland from Porthtowen on the rugged…
Read moreNext Stop Lands End…
Easter is approaching as I write and in the past that always meant a big event of some kind. Back in the old days before I had the much-missed shop,…
Read moreA Whole New World – Back In Action After 16 Years
I never retired from motor sport. I just didn’t compete in it for 16 years. It was, as several ‘resting’ F1 drivers used to say, “a sabbatical”. It turned into…
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