My Racing Career From the Beginning |
I started my crusade in 2010 in a Comer Cadet kart at a small track called Tilbury. From the moment I got into the kart I enjoyed every second of it, and after I started to get confident with the kart my Dad took me to Lydd International Raceway in Kent. It was a demanding yet brilliant track to learn racing lines and race craft. This is where I won my maiden club championship in the Comer Cadets, first in 2013 and then again in 2015.
After I'd gained enough experience, my father could sense the burning desire I had to improve and build on my race craft and soon after he went on to enter me into the final round of the 2015 Birel Art UK Junior Championship at the prestigious Buckmore Park to see how I would perform in a more challenging environment. This was my first outing in a Birel Art Junior kart, we did exceptionally well ending up 4th in the final and winning the rookie trophy so we decided to stay and do the championship for the next year. The 2016 Championship went really well having no mechanical failures apart for one and I ended up winning the Rookie championship and coming 6th overall out of 27 competitors.
This is where we got noticed by Andy Cox, the owner of Birel Art UK. He entered me and 3 others into the Ginetta Junior Scholarship Challenge where I had to go head to head against 60 other drivers by do a range of assessments such as Fitness, Media and driving a Ginetta Junior car to compete for a whole year of televised car racing in the Ginetta junior car all expenses paid. I was delighted to get picked to go into the top 20 where I had to go back 2 days after to do more media and driving assessments.
I went on to do another year of Birel Art UK and started the year on a high, getting a dominant win in the first round at Whilton Mill. From then on I seemed to have a turbulent season, hindered by some mechanical gremlins which ranged from carb problems at Buckmore to tyre punctures at Glan-Y-Gors. Despite having a mechanically frustrating year, I still secured 8th in the championship.
I again got entered into the Ginetta Junior Scholarship by Andy and I had to do the same thing as the previous year and I was more prepared and I pushed my self to the absolute limit in all areas of the scholarship and I was chosen to go back there again to the finals. It got to the final 6 that I was included in to go out one last time and give it my all in a 2 lap shoot out. I felt like I had gave it my all and according to the Ginetta panel of judges there was very little to separate the final 6 in order to choose a winner. I was not chosen for the schollarship winner. However this would not be the last time I see the inside of a Ginetta Junior
As I was waiting on the next season of karting to start i got a phone call from my Dad explaining that Darren Morgan-Owen, a friend we had been helping out with his BMW Khumo Cup Car offered to get us into Ginetta Juniors. I was astonished and speachless. We started 2018 running ourselves as privateers with only myself, my Dad and Darren and we had a lack of experience on how to set these cars up and found it very challenging. Half way through the year we decided it would be best to join a team, this team was Richardson Racing. Never having been in a team before it was alot of information to digest on how everything ran, especially the car itself. 2018 was for sure a huge learning curve for me. Finishing the year 14th overall and 8th rookie.
Going into 2019 we knew we would be a force to be reckoned with and how true that was. So far this year I have had 7 wins and 8 podiums...
After I'd gained enough experience, my father could sense the burning desire I had to improve and build on my race craft and soon after he went on to enter me into the final round of the 2015 Birel Art UK Junior Championship at the prestigious Buckmore Park to see how I would perform in a more challenging environment. This was my first outing in a Birel Art Junior kart, we did exceptionally well ending up 4th in the final and winning the rookie trophy so we decided to stay and do the championship for the next year. The 2016 Championship went really well having no mechanical failures apart for one and I ended up winning the Rookie championship and coming 6th overall out of 27 competitors.
This is where we got noticed by Andy Cox, the owner of Birel Art UK. He entered me and 3 others into the Ginetta Junior Scholarship Challenge where I had to go head to head against 60 other drivers by do a range of assessments such as Fitness, Media and driving a Ginetta Junior car to compete for a whole year of televised car racing in the Ginetta junior car all expenses paid. I was delighted to get picked to go into the top 20 where I had to go back 2 days after to do more media and driving assessments.
I went on to do another year of Birel Art UK and started the year on a high, getting a dominant win in the first round at Whilton Mill. From then on I seemed to have a turbulent season, hindered by some mechanical gremlins which ranged from carb problems at Buckmore to tyre punctures at Glan-Y-Gors. Despite having a mechanically frustrating year, I still secured 8th in the championship.
I again got entered into the Ginetta Junior Scholarship by Andy and I had to do the same thing as the previous year and I was more prepared and I pushed my self to the absolute limit in all areas of the scholarship and I was chosen to go back there again to the finals. It got to the final 6 that I was included in to go out one last time and give it my all in a 2 lap shoot out. I felt like I had gave it my all and according to the Ginetta panel of judges there was very little to separate the final 6 in order to choose a winner. I was not chosen for the schollarship winner. However this would not be the last time I see the inside of a Ginetta Junior
As I was waiting on the next season of karting to start i got a phone call from my Dad explaining that Darren Morgan-Owen, a friend we had been helping out with his BMW Khumo Cup Car offered to get us into Ginetta Juniors. I was astonished and speachless. We started 2018 running ourselves as privateers with only myself, my Dad and Darren and we had a lack of experience on how to set these cars up and found it very challenging. Half way through the year we decided it would be best to join a team, this team was Richardson Racing. Never having been in a team before it was alot of information to digest on how everything ran, especially the car itself. 2018 was for sure a huge learning curve for me. Finishing the year 14th overall and 8th rookie.
Going into 2019 we knew we would be a force to be reckoned with and how true that was. So far this year I have had 7 wins and 8 podiums...