Wedding over, it was back to business as we continued the recce the next day. I always enjoy going to Rally Isle of Man because I was born on the island and still have a lot of family and friends over there. It probably felt even better this year to bring FX Motor Sports to the island for the first time.
Although it’s the BRC event I probably have least experience of, the roads are amazing to drive and the atmosphere on that event is always really good.
We came away with third place points again, but more importantly we came away from the island still leading the British championship. My brother Mark has moved up to second place behind me after winning the event, we both love to win and we would both love to be leading the championship points, so it should make the next round in Ulster interesting.
We had a few problems during the event as we continue to develop the new car, but the team performed well. The TQ.com team was the only team to get both cars home without using the SupeRally rules, which is a credit to FX Motor Sports in our first year in the championship.
I did wish we could have had more speed to chase Mark and Guy [Wilks] on the island though. Although we took third by a large margin, we were quite a bit behind those two. But that’s what can happen when you are developing a new car, and we have taken on board what we did learn on the island and done a lot of work since then to progress things for the Ulster Rally later this month.
We’re not just working on Ulster at the moment either. Just two weeks after we compete there Ieuan and I will be heading back over to China for the second round of the Chinese championship.
