Simon's Blog

FIRST POSTED 17th April 2020. With the passing of the world's most famous racing driver, a memory of testing racing cars with the Maestro back in 1996. "Bloody Hell! That IS Stirling Moss!"

Adventures on an unusual COTSWOLD CLOUDS trial with a third different passenger/navigator in three events. It was great fun but the results has me searching through the mythical RACING DRIVER'S BOOK OF EXCUSES for reasons...

Finally getting the Suzuki X-90 to finish an event after a long series of recent problems. Stand in navigator Graham Jones found the event 'extreme' in nature . But the result was a most welcome 3rd in class.

After a three month engine rebuild things did not go smoothly when we got our Suzuki X-90 trials car back in action on the EXETER TRIAL in the middle of a howling gale!

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....