Simon's Blog

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....

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.