It’s mid-April and I’m about to start the 2011 Autoglym Lotus Seven Club Speed Championship.  I’m Andrew Willoughby and I’ve competed for the past four years in Class 1 of the Championship, winning the class for the last two years.  Class 1 has been brilliant – great people, excellent banter and wonderful competition.  However, I felt that i needed a new challenge and this winter I bought a 2001 Roadsport A car to enter Class 3 – the class in which my son, Matthew, competes.

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It’s been a busy winter.  The car’s had new wheels and tyres, I’ve fitted Tillett seats, changed the roll cage, (we grandads aren’t as agile as we used to be!), and it’s got a new exhaust system, supplied by Simon Rogers of 7Tips Racing.  Andy McMillan (McMillan Motorsport) has been brilliant in preparing the car for action.

I’ve just taken the car out for a final run on the road before fitting the timing strut and numbers for the first sprint of the year at Silverstone on Sunday.  It feels really quick on the road, but we’ll have to wait and see how it performs against the clock.

Roll on Sunday!