12. This year's highlights and looking ahead to 2022

12/16/21 • 23 min

The Sports 2000 podcast

Host Sue Stockdale rounds up the year with Sports 2000 Club Secretary, Roger Donnan, and finds out about all the winners in the 2021 Sports 2000 Championship. The episode includes additional stories from two of the guests we featured earlier in the year: Ross Hyett (Episode 8) sharing another recollection from Le Mans, and Derek Bell (Episode 6) talks about the cars he drives now.
Sue also previews of one of next year's guests, Howden Ganley, and learns why he got involved with Sports 2000. Originally from New Zealand, Ganley participated in 41 World Championship F1 Grand Prix races between 1971 and 1974 and went on to co-found Tiga Race Cars with Tim Schenken (the name coming from TIm and GAnley), the manufacturer of Sports 2000 cars that compete in the current Pinto championship.
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11. John Iley: It's never too late to become a race driver

Sue Stockdale talks to John Iley about his debut season in the Duratec category of Sports 2000. She finds out how he plans to improve his driving skills, and discovers that the car also provides an opportunity for motorsport engineering students from University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD) to learn trackside.
John Iley always wanted to drive racing cars but took 48 years to fulfil that dream. His career instead took a different direction where he focused on the technical side of motorsport which became all-consuming. Iley's notable career highlights include working at Jordan Grand Prix as a senior aerodynamicist, before becoming Head of Aero in 1998. He continued working in that role at Renault F1, Ferrari F1, and McLaren F1 evolving to Performance Director.
Now running his own business since 2015, John is a consultant helping performance vehicles go faster as well as supporting international and national motorsport governing bodies technically. Iley gained his ARDS racing licence at 50 years old and made his Sports 2000 debut in 2021 with the University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD) team where he lectures, mentors and is Professor of Practice.
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13. Jim Morris: Safety equipment for race cars

Host, Sue Stockdale talks to Jim Morris, founder of Lifeline Fire & Safety Systems about the latest changes in safety regulations for fire extinguishers, and how technology advances such as biofuels and electrification impact the design and manufacture of safety equipment for race cars.
Jim is also a keen amateur competitor and shares some highlights from racing his dad’s original Volkswagen Golf GTI from the 1981–1982 season, including winning the small class Gerry Marshall Trophy race at the 2021 Goodwood Members meeting.
Lifeline Fire & Safety Systems is a specialist motorsport fire suppression & safety company that employs 30 people. It supplies an ever-increasing range of safety equipment, fire extinguishing systems, safety harnesses, crash and roll cage paddings, rain lights and steering mechanisms to the global motorsport market, with blue chip customers such as Bentley, Ferrari, McLaren, Porsche, VW, Audi, Aston Martin, Dallara, Ligier, Mygale, Ford, Citroen, Peugeot, Hyundai and Ginetta.
Lifeline products have, and are being used in just about every category of global motorsports, including Formula 1, Indy Car, GP2, GP3, F3, WRC, BTCC, WTCC, Supercars, Formula E, Rallycross, IMSA, WEC, GT3, and GT4. In 2019 80% of the Le Mans 24-hour field used Lifeline products. Lifeline has also designed and manufacture fire suppression systems for many of the tracked and wheeled vehicles used in the defence industry. The company has a global network of dealer’s, service agents and re-sellers, and in 2015 opened a dedicated facility, Lifeline USA, in Virginia North America.
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The Sports2000 Championship has been established since 1977 and features four championships - Duratecs, Pintos, Historic Pintos and Mini Enduro.
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Sound Editor: Rob Lawrence (he/him)
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