Justin Taylor

Ups and Downs

Following on from my enjoyable test session in the Lola racecar, things have moved ahead a bit. I've had more practise sessions and my first race weekend, first lead of a race, first crash. Read on, I shall elaborate!The practise sessions saw a lot of work go into my skills behind the wheel of the Lola. ...

ELL-OH-ELL-AY, Lola

Two blogs back, I spoke of the purity of the mental experience of racing. Then, the bitterness of a bad weekend. After that – silence. My year of Mini Challenge racing came to an abrupt end. A simple cost / benefit assessment left the completion of the season as a no-go. I quit. In the meantime, a ...

A Weekend to Forget

“There is nothing on this earth like a good weekend’s racing, it beats anything else hands down.”That’s what I said last time. This time, the converse is more appropriate – racing brings the lowest of lows, too.Regular followers will know we went off to Wiltshire's legendary Castle Combe track ...

Summer Heat in the Park

The latest race weekend in Mini Challenge was held up at Oulton Park. The circuit is in a very rural location – I was pretty sure the GPS was leading me astray as I meandered down insanely narrow farm lanes, but I nosed around yet another leafy corner and a spectacular expanse of sweeping, majestic, ...

Formula One Woes in Mini Challenge

This past weekend we returned to race at Brands Hatch in Kent, on the shorter Indy Circuit. At 1,2 miles (just under 2 km) the circuit feels very busy, you’re constantly in one corner or rapidly approaching another. Even the main straight isn’t really a straight. Or flat. According to Niki Lauda, ...

Welcome To CARmagblog: Justin Taylor

My good friend Sudhir Matai (CAR Mag big cheese and frustrated speedster of Amateur Racer Diary fame) thought there might be some interest in a blog from the UK, covering my racing and whatever other interesting items crop up along the way.For those who don’t know me, I raced in SA in the Volkswagen ...