Life on the Road

After months of searching Dad had found a van for us he was happy with and spent a lot of the Spring preparing the van for our summer, we would live out of the van for the summer as we went from race weekend to race weekend, camping in the paddock or caravan sites or sometimes any old car park as we karted on the weekend and tested Ginetta’s in the week. Some relief came in August when we gained occupancy of our new home in Cambridge.

While we were on the road, mum was packing up the house on the Isle of Man. My GCSE results came in with what I had hoped for, and I secured my place at Hills Road in Cambridge. Everyone breathed a huge sigh of relief as we had re-arranged our lives on the assumption that I would get in. No pressure on me then!

With the British unfinished until October, and being entered for the final two Ginetta rounds in September and October meant life on the road continued into my first term at Hills Road; Mum was not happy, missing nearly 1 day every week but my new found freedom of 6th form college meant there was only one lesson on the Friday, which is the most frequent day I needed to miss; Dad and I didn’t see the problem?