The World According to Tim Skipper

During the summer of 2003 I decided that I had had enough of messing around on track days and it was time to find out if I really was any good as a competative driver. I sold my Porsche Boxster S and signed up for the 2004 Caterham Academy Championships.
The kit was delivered in […]

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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 he […]

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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 this […]

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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, but […]

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