At the end of May 2005 I successfully completed my first motor race - a 24 endurance race for racing 2CV Citroens at Snetterton race track. It was a two-car team owned by Sir Aubrey Brocklebank (whose family once manufactured a motor car, The Brocklebank, a stylish saloon car manufactured in Birmingham from 1926-1929).

My co-drivers in our car, suitably covered in Dead Simple stickers to
promote my new book (!), were my business partner and merchant banker Peter Rigg, Birmingham barrister Mark Heywood and Zoe Cardell-Walker who once came 5th in an all-woman team in this event. Despite my spinning off at Riches Corner, in pouring rain at 5.20am, we finished 23rd out of 33 - not bad since two of us had never raced before!

Peter in full racing garb

Getting ready to go

Exiting the pits

Going for it!

Pit stop

Roaring down the track

Through the chicane at full tilt

The Speed Demon returns to base

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