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Having made the commitment to race, I asked myself: ​ How do you get into racing? Where do you start? What do you need to think about / what are the considerations? What car do you race? What series do you race in? Do you buy a ready-to-race car or have one built for you? How much will it cost?  ​ I've shared here my own experience as a partially disabled person of getting started in racing. It 's the same for anyone, except for me I had to undertake an additional assessment

I thought I'd share my experience of becoming a racing driver and what I've gone through, along with a few car modifications.

My name is Julian Phillip McBride (JPM), or "Doolan" (pronounced Doo-Lan) to my family! ​ Generation X, born in '67, now everything hurts and getting out of bed requires planning and execution instead of simply leaping out!  I am however still a big kid inside.  I learned through being in a wheelchair and having to face adversity that laughter is the best therapy, that and beer!  Coupled with a sense of purpose, (don't tell me I will never walk again as I'm going to stick two

In this modern era of wokeism and hyper sensitivity, this sad period of the life and soul being sucked out of driving pleasure, this increasing reliance on technology taking the human out of driving, I consider myself lucky to have been born in an era when cars were cars, where the classic boy's poster art was a Lambo or TVR, where Formula 1 cars were the loudest thing on the planet. ​ Although I've not been lucky enough to own REALLY exotic cars, I'm pretty pleased with the