The World According to Tim Skipper

A couple of weeks ago I noticed that Javelin Motorsport were running an evening session at Snetterton, my local circuit and the venue for the first Academy race event. Obviously I am keen to drive the circuits we will be racing on in the championship as much as possible, and at £95 for 3 hours [...]

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Round two of the 2004 EVO Caterham Academy is another sprint, this time at Goodwood on June 5th. With this in mind, Peter and I took advantage of the only track day available there before the event – a TrackFun (ha!) event last Saturday. I trailered the Caterham down to Peter’s on Friday night where [...]

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Round 1 of the 2004 EVO Caterham Academy championships was held on Saturday 24th April in glorious sunshine at the historic Aintree motor racing circuit, near Liverpool. Hosted by the Liverpool Motor Club as part of their Aintree Sprint Series 2004, both groups of the Academy were present. The length of the course was 1,847 [...]

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My first visit to Snetterton, my local circuit just 20 mins from home, was yesterday. Our first academy race is at Snetterton so I was very keen to get a track day or two in here before then. As usual book-a-track.com provided the opportunity and yet another excellent well-run and safe day. The contrast between [...]

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Today I made the journey I’ve been looking forward to the most since I finished building my Academy car back in December – to the Caterham factory in Dartford to collect my now road legal car following it’s successful SVA test yesterday. Ideally I would have got the train to Dartford and driven it home, [...]

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