I did the Malcolm Wilson, Manx, Woodpecker & Bulldog with Ally Mackay and we work very well together so we decided to team up for 2006 - sell my N10 and run the new TEG Sport hire car N12 (which we launched at the Autosport show in the NEC) in both the ANCRO & SRC although I only have the budget for the ANCRO at present.

I won the Malcolm Wilson outright in 1997 in my Mitsubishi Galant VR4 - It was an ex works car. It was built for Hydoki Shinozouzoo and straight out of the box he won the Ivory Coast rally by some 3 minutes - being the only Japanese to have ever won a world championship round. Mitsubishi cut back on their WRC and the car came back to the UK with Ralliart who then went bust !! Steve Hill had hired the car and bought it and various vans, tools, mechanics etc and started up Steve Hill motorsport. Think he ran the car for 2 or 3 seasons before I bought it.

Picture: Alistair Tough ~ Dee Addison Subaru Impreza WR
Courtesy of Ian Hardy http://www.ianhardy.net/

I had a fair bit of success with that car but it was dogged with g/box problems - its days with me ended on The Manx in 1998 when, whilst leading the rally from Jimmy Mcrae by 17 seconds I barrel rolled it, flat in 5th, into oblivion !! My navigator was Dee Addison and we were both bruised but unhurt. I was skint, couldn't afford to fix it and my wife was bending my ear !! My son had started karting so I concentrated on him and he went on to become a double Scottish Champion.

When he turned 16 he lost interest in motorsport, I thought he would come back into it but after a year it was obvious he would not so I sold all the kart stuff and bought the old yellow car off Jimmy in 2004. I was only going to do my local event and have the odd play but realized I was not that far off the pace so moved into the 2 dr.

Picture: Alistair Tough ~ Alistair Mackay Subaru Impreza N10
Courtesy of Ian Hardy http://www.ianhardy.net/