I really enjoy my job, and I’m like everyone else in the team from Trevor to the mechanics, the best bit is the qualifying and the racing. I get just as excited now as I did years ago when I started in motorsport. When the team are qualifying and racing, we often get involved in the pit stops and have to do quick tyres changes; sometimes on a jack or changing a tyre. During the race weekend, if we’re in awnings away from the main garages, I use a trolley to take tyres and all the other equipment we will need for the race down to the pit lane, effectively so we can set up a mini garage.
When all the racing is over the team help put everything back in the trucks and we make the slow journey back to the workshop.
British F3 recently made it’s longest ever trip abroad to Romania. Talk us through that.
Yeah, this season we completed our longest F3 trip ever by road, which was four days to Bucharest. Despite being hard work, it was good fun. We actually had a promotional event at Mercedes-Benz World at Brooklands the weekend before the Romanian race, so we left straight from there to Dover. We turned up at the hotel and there were loads of other F3 trucks there. We all set off in convoy, the first day was quite uneventful and we got as far as Frankfurt. But it steadily went downhill from there!
On the second day of the trip we went through Germany and into Austria, that was ok, but we couldn’t find the hotel we were meant to be staying in. So we ended up at a tiny bed and breakfast and we blocked the whole off a tiny village with the trucks because we couldn’t find anywhere to park them. Then the police turned up and guided us to this massive car park. The police and the locals were so welcoming and helpful - they were all so pleased to have us staying in their village!
