Hi Mark, cheers for the compliment, Croft is our local circuit so I must have done about 6-7 track days there, it's a really easy circuit to learn so it doesn't take that long to get it right.

The Pug cost £2.5k to buy, it was already fully caged, had the MI16 engine and the seats in it so we didn't need to do anything to it really. I wanted it to have a bit more power so we bought some throttle bodies and new management and had it set up and she goes like a train now. We also had her painted orange as my intention was to go racing with her and in that colour she would get noticed more than she would when she was miami blue.

My racing plans are on hold for now, we are planning to have a baby so maybe in a year I can try again. I might do something like the Northern Saloon Car championship or even the Scottish Sports and Saloon car championship. I have my racing licence so the only thing thats stopping me is funds to get the car through MSA scrutineering. The costs of entering each of the rounds aren't that bad and we have transport for the car. Most of the rounds for the Northern Saloon Car championship are held at Croft and Knockhill which are both not too far to go.

Lets just wait and see what happens. As a track car though and to have some fun in Pugs are amazing. I know I'm bias but you really can't beat them for the fun factor and it's not like they are too expensive to fix either, should anything go wrong