Learning to pass your driving test, how to drive a car and how to race a car are three completely different things and to do each properly, you need the right kind of training.

My race coaching is being provided by the excellent Malcolm Edeson, who I discovered through my links with the Lotus On Track Racing Drivers’ Club. Malcolm has himself raced for many years and has also coached at least six Elise Trophy drivers to success over the past few seasons.

Its important to race train in a race car and I have been renting an Elise Trophy car from ES Motorsport run by the splendid Dave Carr, himself an impressive Elise Trophy racer, out near Norwich.