How’s the car been? The car’s been good. Once the initial problems were ironed out it’s been a brilliant little car. I’d like it to be lighter and have a bit more power, but other than that it’s been a good car.
It was the FST UK’s first season, did it go as you expected? It’s gone really well. I’ve been lucky with only one breakdown. We were always going to be the guinea pigs - as that’s the way it will be with it being the first year - but it’s been really good.
Best rally this season? My best rally has been the Park Systems because it was the first rally this year I’ve actually won as a straight-out win. The Pirelli was good, I won that as well, but Kevin Davies was taking time out of me and I wasn’t driving that well at the end of the day. On the Park we were the fastest pretty much all the way through the day.
Worst rally this season? We had an engine mount break on the Malcolm Wilson, we were going really well up till then and we were nearly leading the rally. Owen Murphy was only a second ahead of me when we went out, so without the mount breaking we might have had the championship wrapped up by now.
Plans for next year? Depends what sort of budget I can get. I’d like to do something like the Fiesta SportingTrophy International.
Chris Moore
Date of Birth: 14/4/75
Lives: Sunderland
Occupation: Fireman
Hobbies: I haven’t really got time for hobbies. I’m a fireman and I do my best to run Innovation Motorsports so I don’t get a nanosecond. I keep fit, I’ll do 40 minutes running in the morning, but I’m never as fit as I want to be because I like my food too much!
Mobile ring tone: A really mellow sort of thing which gives you a little nudge first then gradually gets louder because it goes off about 140 times a day! If I had anything dramatic it would drive me nuts, it’s just a mellow few beats.
Eastenders or Coronation Street? Eastenders
Chinese or Indian? Chinese. I stink when I eat Indians!
When did you start rallying? I started rallying in 1994 and did four-and-a-half years as a co-driver before I started driving. The first event I co-drove on was a local event at a place called Stobbs Camp. I badgered the guy from the motor club who had an Escort Cosworth to let me sit with him. I didn’t have a clue what on earth I was doing, nobody gave me any prior instruction. I just turned up at the first time control and the marshal said ‘what time do you want?’ and I just said ‘whatever’, so I don’t think the driver was terribly impressed! We finished third overall, I got a trophy and then I was just hooked from that day on.
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