About me

I was born in Glasgow, where my father was an architect and my taught piano. I was educated at the famous Loretto School in Musselburgh, which includes the great Jim Clark amongst its former pupils. I have two brothers, one is a furniture designer, and the other competes in the well known ‘Robot Wars’ TV programme.

The first vehicle I drove was when I was 11-years-old, and it was a 30 tonne earth moving vehicle, a far cry from what I drive now! It was at a quarry near where my parents were living, and when we found that we could start up the earth movers, I couldn’t resist it…

In some ways racing was in my blood and it seemed natural that I should become a racing driver. A close friend of my family raced in Formula Two against Jackie Stewart, also doing a whole host of events including the London-Sydney rally, and was a real inspiration to me. With Jim Clark the most famous ‘old boy’ of my school, perhaps it was always going to happen.

My first racing car was a Formula Ford, a Nike Mk.10B that I bought in 1976, and a year later I was racing for the first time, at the famous Jim Russell Racing Drivers School where I took my first victory in their Scholarship competition.

I have now moved south to Oxford where I live with my wife Tina, and away from the track I enjoy both water and snow skiing, playing golf, and travelling. After my time racing there my favourite food is Japanese, though I also enjoy malt whiskey and good vintage champagne!

In 1999 I became patron of the 'Racing for Children' charity.