So now we're in China. It's a late start to the championship here this year - last year, the Shanghai Rally was two months earlier. I've already been out testing twice, but it will be good to get back into competition. We're back with the WY rally team and really looking forward to it.

Last year, we won all of the rallies, and we were proud to be the first rally crew who had ever managed to do that. This year, the aim is to become the first rally crew to do it twice!

The Jim Clark achievement was tempered somewhat when I received the very sad news that, the day after the event, my grandfather, Ken Leece, had passed away.

It was my grandfather who got the family involved in motorsport and, on Sunday, when I took the lead in the British championship, my brother Mark won the rally, and Lewis Hamilton won the Grand Prix in Monaco, he would have been very proud of all of that. He always kept a keen eye on what was going on in the world of motorsport.

He also actively encouraged my mother and father to participate in the sport, and then did the same when Mark and I followed in their footsteps.

He is going to be very sadly missed, but my grandmother and all the family have said that I should still compete in China this week, because it is what he would have wanted. I'll have an extra reason now to try and push.

That's it for now, I'll write again after Rally Isle of Man in July.


David



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