This weekend we head to Antrim for the 5th round of the BRC. This will probably be the only time this year that Mark Higgins and myself will both be in unknown territory, as nearly all of the stages are new to the rally. It will be a level playing field as far as local knowledge is concerned. 

After a tough 2 days of physical tests, interviews and a small bit of driving, we did not make it through to the next part of the Pirelli shootout in Austria. I am incredibly disappointed with the result, as I felt I had made the necessary improvements to what cost me in the Pirelli Shootout in Austria last year where I was the fastest but did not do a good interview and as a result did not win the prize drive.

Apologies again for the delay in posting a blog update.
I was reminded to do it the day I returned from the Isle of Man, but then forgot about it. Things have been hectic both at work and in the rally world with having to prepare for the shootout in Finland this week.
A week before the Isle of Man I would gladly have settled for second place. However,as the team sat down after the event for a meal there was a strong sense of disappointment noticeable, as we all knew that we had enough speed to win the event. That would have been some achievement, to beat Mark in his own backyard and yet we came so close.

I must apologise for not posting an entry for a while but I have been very busy in the last few weeks. The week after the Jim Clark, the website went down because of hackers and was out of action for three weeks as a result. I had an update ready then but it was irrelevant by the time the site was back. By now I have many more things to cover.

Firstly, I have to apologise to anybody who was trying to log on to the site whilst it was offline and explain that the hackers not only caused this site to collapse but also the other 30 or so sites on the same server. The fact that this site was targeted meant that a huge number of people were affected and I regret that, however, something of that nature won’t have an effect on my desire to win the BRC.