Simon's Blog

Making for some great viewing over the past few seasons, the IMSA series in America produced an almost agonisingly nail-biting end to it's season , and it's current "Daytona Prototype" era with a  riveting 10-hour race at Road Atlanta last month....

Musing on 'The Cruel Sport' after a chance detour last summer led to the grave side of racing driver Paul Warwick, killed in an accident at Oulton Park in 1991 just as his motor racing career was really taking off.

In the wake of mechanical disaster on the Edinburgh Trial, Simon Lewis, very amateur mechanic, attempts a rebuild of the family Suzuki X90 engine with much help from his brother, Ashley, via modern technology! It didn't go to plan...

Traumatic times as Simon & daughter Charlotte tackled the Edinburgh Trial , played hide & seek with the course closing car and were saved by a Good Samaritan.

The sun is shining down on my bare head and the breeze is rustling what little hair I have left. My left elbow is out in the fresh air and my right arm hooked round the back of the driver's seat in what might be considered an over-familiar fashion…except...