Get Racing in Scotland

Do you want to start racing?

Then perhaps you could follow my example and begin with an everyday run-about car.

I started racing in a standard Vauxhall Nova. The car started life as a 1.2L but with a 1.6 8v GTE engine in it. This gave enough power to get racing.

With a bucket seat, race harness, roll cage, cheap tyres and lower and stiffer suspension - away I went!

Vauxhall Corsa Parts For Sale

Range of motorsport and road going Vauxhall Corsa parts for sale here

Reid Racing & Championship Updates

2007 was a good year for me. I didn't do the full calendar of events, as other commitments took up a lot of my weekends

However, I did manage to attend ten events last year - eight sprints and two hillclimbs. I won all the ten events and managed to secure four new class records along the way.

By winning all the eight sprints, I scraped enough points together to win the overall A2 class Scottish Sprint Championship award - not bad!

This year (2008) will be another year of picking and choosing events. The development of the 1796cc engine has taken a lot more of my time than I had imagined, so changes to the shell and other parts has not started yet (as of April).

Once the engine is mapped on the dyno, the plan is to put it in the nova and go and have some fun, this will give me time to check it's performance and reliability, before perhaps doing a full season next year (2009).

Please check the photo section, I've uploaded quite a few pictures of the car in it's various developments and some pictures of engine modifications I've made along the way.

1796cc Engine News

The 1796cc engine is currently underway, but I'm not sure when it will make is first appearance, as there has been a few issues to iron out as it was being built - which meant it has taken longer than expected.

Good news is that I have something on the engine stand which is starting to resemble an engine.

I am hoping later this year to get the 1796cc engine mapped and out for a few test races.